Bluesky
Weeknote 19 - 23 July 2021
On shared provocations, developing agile leaders and anti-racism policies.
Weeknotes
Weeknote 5 - 16 July 2021
On visiting an office, audits and virtual training.
Weeknote 28 June - 2 July 2021
On interim roles, trade-offs and looking outside my “woke” filter bubble.
Weeknote 21 - 25 June 2021
On new starters, public sector sharing and race equality in Cornwall.
Weeknote 24 May - 18 June 2021
On apprenticeships, testing and some large and small achievements.
Weeknote 10 - 21 May 2021
On growing our team, cost of delay and a book you must read.
Weeknote 4 - 7 May 2021
On a busy short week, local elections and COVID in India.
Weeknote 19 - 30 April 2021
On flexing, failing and basic needs.
Weeknote 5 - 16 April 2021
On introducing agile, single source of truth and responding to more shootings in the US.
Weeknote 22 March - 2 April 2021
On our new website and second-order agile.
Weeknote 15 - 19 March 2021
On too much work-in-progress, more agility and vaccinations.
Weeknote 8 - 12 March 2021
On growing our team, using tech for good and the awful news about Sarah Everard.
Weeknote 22 February - 5 March 2021
On conveyor belts, living up to our values and International Women’s Day.
Weeknote 15 - 19 February 2021
On public cloud troubles, race equality and #JamFirst
Weeknote 8 - 12 February 2021
On agile experiments and coaching new developers
Weeknote 25 January - 5 February 2021
On roadmap wrestling, real performance development and tech for good.
Weeknote 1 - 23 January 2021
On UKGovCamp, tough times in a transformation and being a practical ally.
Weeknote 14 - 18 December 2020
On getting things done for sure, positive project boards and white men in advertising.
Weeknote 7 - 11 December 2020
On habit-breaking training, learning to code and loads and loads on money and people systems.
Yearnote 4 November 2019 - 27 November 2020
On a year in Cornwall Council.
Weeknote 9 - 13 November 2020
On always changing things, better priorities and remembering.
Weeknote 2 - 6 November 2020
On the day-to-day work of running systems, hackathons and coaching new coders.
Weeknote 26 - 30 October 2020
On all the roadmaps and an animated, LED pumpkin
Weeknote 19 - 23 October 2020
On interim operating models, pressure and free speech.
Weeknote 12 - 16 October 2020
On organising for a complex product team, cyber attacks and tinkering with Xmas lights.
Weeknote 5 - 9 October 2020
Mostly back-office systems with a sprinkle of other things
Weeknote 28 September - 2 October 2020
On back-office systems, exciting administration and Black Voices Cornwall.
Weeknote 21 - 25 September 2020
On bots, onions and virtual good byes
Weeknote 14 - 18 September 2020
On continuous improvement and being a BAME ally.
Weeknote 7 - 11 September 2020
On broadcast communications, our new website, turning problems into lessons, roadmaps and cross-government collaboration.
Weeknote 1 - 4 September 2020
On user needs, Troika Consulting, scaled agile and being a BAME ally.
Weeknote 10 - 14 August 2020
On innovation allies, always learning, fighting for flow and more shared learning.
Weeknote 03 - 07 August 2020
On Bob the Builder, balancing the books and assurance without certainty.
Weeknote 27 - 31 July 2020
On more tweaks to our agile ways of working, getting comfortable with a 20% success rate and shared learning.
Weeknote 20 - 24 July 2020
On unlocking great ideas, project epilogues, fragmenting systems and wheelchairs by the sea.
Weeknote 13 - 17 July 2020
On the many faces of progress and virtual privilege walks
Weeknote 29 June - 10 July 2020
On an exciting future for Cornwall, reducing the cost of indecision and talking to white people about race.
Weeknote 22 - 26 June 2020
On pushing boundaries, technical frustrations and race science.
Weeknote 15 - 19 June 2020
On drinking your own champaign and mentoring.
Weeknote 8 - 12 June 2020
On transforming through a crisis, small continuous improvements and the value of communities.
Weeknote 1 - 5 June 2020
On ending things well, iterating agile, grand plans and the killing of George Floyd.
Weeknote 25 - 29 May 2020
On learning by doing, situational leadership and mentoring.
Weeknote 18 - 22 May 2020
On agile roles, documentation, shared infrastructure and mental health.
Weeknote 11 - 15 May 2020
On virtual Mexican waves, crossing invisible silos, the downside of agile backlogs and the benefits of traditional project management.
Weeknote 4 - 7 May 2020
On not wasting a crisis, morning routines, kids coding and the National Grid
Weeknote 27 April - 1 May 2020
On home offices, generic capabilities and insensitive language
Weeknote 20 - 24 April 2020
On “zoombombing” and getting “forward” to normal. Do not post links or codes for online meetings (e.g. Zoom) in public!
Weeknote 14 - 17 April 2020
On the endless stream of video calls.
Weeknote 30 March - 9 April 2020
On making trade-offs, when information systems do not mean IT, when numbers are not facts and when probability is meaningless.
Weeknote 23 - 27 March 2020
On business-as-usual when everything is different, enormous satisfaction from tiny successes and helping each other through all this.
Weeknote 16 - 20 March 2020
On a face-to-face tech event (remember those?), closing projects in an agile way and fixing ink jet printers…or not!
Weeknote 9 - 13 March 2020
On business cases, fine tuning teams, jazz fusion, the RSA and COVID-19’s impact on the climate
Weeknote 2 - 6 March 2020
On Cornwall Geeks, agile forecasting and risk management, scrum-of-scrums, product roadmaps and a first weeknote mention for COVID-19!
Weeknote 24-27 February 2020
On spreading too thin, agile infrastructure, part-time teams and diversity in tech
Weeknote 17-21 February 2020
On financial approvals, learning together and package-free shopping
Weeknote 10-14 February 2020
On being caught between storms.
Weeknote 03-09 February 2020
On resident experience, collaboration and trade-offs, privilege and diversity.
Weeknote 27-31 January 2020
On making connections, agile training and recycling sticky notes.
Weeknote 18-24 January 2020
On UK Gov Camp 2020, Scrum Master training and working with agile teams.