Human Centered Technology and Leadership
“Get back to the office, or get forgotten” This article from Michael Cook in the Australian Financial Review has popped up a few times this week on my Twitter feed and in a few Reddit forums I follow. I felt it deserved a longer response than I cared to make in either of those forums.
I chose something else.
Working at Portable has given me the chance to learn many things I’ve never before thought to learn. For me, the Acknowledgement of Country is an important part of any gathering. We collectively and quietly honour the traditional owners of the stolen lands on which we meet.
But it’s always the same words. So that must be sanctioned; written by someone authorised to write such things. Right?
That was until I met Rhys and Emma from Acknowledge This. Through their workshop I learned that it was OK to write my own words. In fact, it was more authentic to express my own acknowledgement than to recite something by rote.
If you’re like me and hate “networking” then here’s my sixty seconds on the support I’ve received from going out just a few times last year, and why now is the perfect time to start your own network — without the cringe.
When causing a major customer disruption you cannot stop NPS from dropping. But how should you measure success?
This brilliant bit of cartoon vandalism is doing the meme rounds on every social media platform this week. If you’ve ever had a side project […] Read More
It’s 2019. We are all supposed to hate Waterfall. But I’m not convinced it’s completely bad. In “Waterfall land” you begin a project, you design it, you get it signed off, you build it, you deliver it and then you celebrate.
My friend Jack wrote about the Purposeful First Commit, “A first commit helps define what the project intent is. Why are you committing this code? What do you aim to achieve?”
In this post we look at how to achieve a purposeful first commit when working with Git Flow
Team one-on-ones are a great way to feel your team’s pulse. Here’s a bunch of questions I like or have used over the years to measure the pulse.
There’s a growing trend in software management to create a “README” file. Like any readme it’s a quick way to understand something. In this case, it’s understanding me, and how we’ll work together.
Why do I wear a name tag? Wearing a name tag invites conversation and introduces you to everyone. And it removes that awkward barrier when you can’t quite remember someone’s name.