Better ROI from Software Development

During September, I'm running a short survey to understand UK Executive's attitudes to custom software development.  Please take the time and have your say at: https://software-survey.red-folder.com/ In this episode I continue to look at professionalism in software development. I take the fourth oath from the Programmer's Oath by Uncle Bob Martin, introduced in episode #51, to explore further...

During September, I'm running a short survey to understand UK Executive's attitudes to custom software development.  Please take the time and have your say at: https://software-survey.red-folder.com/ In this episode I continue to look at professionalism in software development. I take the third oath from the Programmer's Oath by Uncle Bob Martin, introduced in episode #51, to explore further:...

In this episode I continue to look at professionalism in software development. I take the second oath from the Programmer's Oath by Uncle Bob Martin, introduced in episode #51, to explore further: "I Promise that, to the best of my ability and judgement: The code that I produce will always be my best work. I will not knowingly allow code that is defective either in behavior or structure to accumul...

In this episode I continue to look at professionalism in software development. I take the first oath from the Programmer's Oath by Uncle Bob Martin, introduced in the last episode, to explore further: I Promise that, to the best of my ability and judgement: I will not produce harmful code.

In this episode I start to look at professionalism in software development. Software development doesn't have the same level of professionalism & accountability found in Doctors, Lawyers or Architects. In this episode I talk about why it is desirable, but unlikely to happen. And I introduce the Programmers Oath - an attempt to start the conversation 

In this episode I provide a recap of the episodes since the last recap show (episode #25). This episode is both a recap of the series since episode #25 and a good entry point for new listeners. During this episode, I'll be summarising the key takeaways - and which episodes to listen to if you want more.

In this episode I want to discuss how dangerous it can be to assume another persons intent purely from their actions. This is a message I am seeing come up quite a bit lately. And the more I think about it, the more I see it in everyday business work. Both in how we perceive our teams and how our teams perceive us.

Over the last few episodes I've talked about learning to improve our individuals, teams and entire organisations to handle change. In this episode I want to explore why it is so important to that we are learning to build our Software right. Often the focus of our teams is to build the right thing - which is certainly important. But we also need to think about building the thing right.

In this episode I wanted to continue the conversation on Learning. In the last few episodes, I talked about; Why learning is so important to me personally Organisational Learning And how to support and encourage individual learning. In this episode I want to looks at how the Software Development team can learn through a number of deliberate practices.

In this episode I wanted to continue the conversation on Learning. In the last two episodes I talked about why Learning is so important to me personally and Organisational Learning. In this episode, I want to move onto talking helping Individual Learning.

In this episode I wanted to continue the conversation on Learning. In my last episode I talked about why Learning is so important to me personally. In this episode, I want to move onto talking about Organisational Learning.

In this episode I wanted to start talking about learning. Learning is one of the singularly overlooked concepts in running a business.  I believe every business is a technology business.  For a business to thrive in the modern world it must be able to adapt and change rapidly.  That ability for a business to adapt and change quickly, comes down to how well the organisation learns An...

Over the current few episodes I am introducing a number of technologies from modern Software Delivery. These are: Containers Docker Kubernetes And Serverless There are "hot" technologies within Software Development at the moment. They are helping Software Teams: Get Better ROI when spending on Computer Servers Improving the speed to market Allowing for more complex and ambitious solutions These ar...

Over the current few episodes I am introducing a number of technologies from modern Software Delivery. These are: Containers Docker Kubernetes And Serverless There are "hot" technologies within Software Development at the moment. They are helping Software Teams: Get Better ROI when spending      on Computer Servers Improving the speed to market Allowing for more complex an...

Over the next few episodes I want to introduce a number of technologies from modern Software Delivery. These are: Containers Docker Kubernetes And Serverless There are "hot" technologies within Software Development at the moment. They are helping Software Teams: Get Better ROI when spending      on Computer Server resource Improving the speed to market Allowing for more co...

Over the next few episodes I want to introduce a number of technologies from modern Software Delivery. These are: Containers Docker Kubernetes And Serverless There are "hot" technologies with Software Development at the moment. They are helping Software Teams: Get Better ROI when spending      on Computer Server resource Improving the speed to market Allowing for more comp...

I find that quite often business owners and leaders desire a level of predictability that isn't being achieved by their software development teams. The want reliable costs and timelines for the delivery of software. But the software development teams fail to achieve them. In this episode I will discuss that, to improve that predictability, you need to ask your teams to do less. I will also questio...

I'm recording this on Tuesday the 21st May 2020. At this point, in the UK, we have been under lock down for 4 weeks. UK rules discourage person to person interactions as much as possible. While we are able to leave our homes for work, shopping and daily exercise, we are encourage to minimise this as much as possible. Where they can, businesses are being encouraged to work from home. In this episod...

I find that many organisations have a myopic over focus on the immediate term. This over focus drives poor return on investment over the longer term. In this episode I revisit the analogy of technical debt and how this is related to an over focus on the immediate. I will also pull from the three horizons example from the book The Alchemy of Growth on a way of avoiding that over focus.

Over the last 10 episodes I've been focused on recruitment. I had originally planned to finish that mini-series two episodes back; but then I gave you a bonus episode last week on the best hire you can make. I recently came across a question online, and it fitted so perfectly with the recruitment series that I couldn't resist adding another episode to the mini-series. In this episode, I look at fe...

Last week I completed a mini-series of 9 episodes looking at various aspects of recruitment. As I went through the series I decided I wanted to give you a bonus episode on recruitment. I wanted to tell you about the best hire you can make.

This episode is the final part of a recruitment mini-series; where I have been focusing on various characteristics that I believe are important in recruitment. And while I think many of these themes are universal, I have, of course, been focusing on software development. In this episode, I will close out this recruitment mini-series, with a discussion on getting the most from your new employee and...

This episode is part of a recruitment mini-series; where I am focusing on various characteristics that I believe are important in recruitment. And while I believe many of these themes are universal, I will, of course, be focusing on software development. In this episode, I talk about the need to act quickly.

This episode is part of a recruitment mini-series; where I will be focusing on various characteristics that I believe are important in recruitment. And while I believe many of these themes are universal, I will, of course, be focusing on software development. In this episode, I talk about the actual interview. Interviewing an individual to gauging future performance is far from a fool-proof means...

This episode is part of a recruitment mini-series; where I will be focusing on various characteristics that I believe are important in recruitment. And while I believe many of these themes are universal, I will, of course, be focusing on software development. In this episode, I talk about working with recruitment agencies. For better or worse, most software development recruitment is undertaken th...