Stopping an Un-Islamic State… an alternative approach
Friday the 26th 2015, 9th of Ramadhan, monsters we have come to know as IS struck across three countries – Tunisia, France and Kuwait – Britain could have been on the list (God Forbid) if not for our...
View ArticleAgile for Peace at ALE 2015 (Agile Lean Network)
With international development programs seen as hit and miss exercises and foreign aid failing to create the impact our policies desire the question is why are non-governmental organisations not...
View ArticleDeveloping User Stories – Beyond the Basics
User stories when developed and utilised correctly are the most powerful agile technique to capture product functionality, though writing user stories may seem easy, writing good stories is hard....
View ArticleDPSX @ DrupalCon Barcelona
As a digital activist I want a forum that brings together individuals from private, public and the third sectors, to share ideas, address issues of waste, service improvements, development and...
View ArticleAn Engagement Manager’s guide to site building in Drupal 8 – week 01
More a log than a guide, but you get the idea! Day 0 Many a weeks before Day 1! started putting a backlog together, the site is for an Open Social Transformation project, its open sourcing the...
View ArticleAn Engagement Manager’s Guide To Site Building In Drupal 8 – Week 02
More a log than a guide, but you get the idea! Day 1 Day 1’s timebox went on user stories and sprint goals (1 week sprints btw); this sprint’s goals are; main menu, footer menu, social (Twitter) feed...
View ArticleAn Engagement Manager’s Guide To Site Building In Drupal 8 – Week 03
More a log than a guide, but you get the idea! its a lengthy log this week, a lot got undone, done and then some. Day 1 Backlog for the week: Fonts Contact Form (customise it) Translations (Lingotek)...
View ArticleDPSX – lessons from Australia for a local government distribution in the UK
As a tax payer I want companies who provide frontline public services to make the data they gather in the provision of such services available through Open APIs to other actors in the ecosystem, so...
View ArticleOpen Source and Cloud beyond tech – Keynote at DrupalCamp Bulgaria Nov 2015
The keynote at DrupalCamp Bulgaria was planned to be left field from the get go, however it went a little further out after Paris came under attack on the night of the 13th of November 2015....
View ArticleAn Engagement Manager’s Guide To Site Building In Drupal 8 – Week 04
This week a lot got undone, broken, recovered and then some. Day 1 Worked on the product backlog, not quite ready for public consumption yet but getting there, sprint backlog for the week: Shop for VPS...
View Article#DPSX Jan 2016 meet up – Drupal Distribution for local government
Our January meet up was in the making since the #DPSX BoF at DrupalCon Barcelona in September 2015, the sign up for the 13th Jan event was great but logistical challenges mid December left quite a few...
View ArticleApplying Agile beyond tech – key ingredients
This post started of as an email to Yashin Lin from Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, Yashin reached out for advise on applying agile practices in non-technical teams in the...
View ArticleAgile Coaching: A guide for project managers stepping into a Scrum team –...
This is first of a series of blogs to support traditional project managers I am coaching. To help get their bearings in deep and murky waters of Agile projects and Scrum teams. Before the scrum purists...
View ArticleEmpathy Driven Content Strategy – Drupal Camp London 2017
First and foremost thank you to all who made the time to attend my session on Empathy Driven Content Strategy at Drupal Camp London 2017. Thank you for sharing your time and perspectives. This session...
View ArticleEmpathy mapping – Drupal community and Drupal 8
I carried out a empathy mapping exercise at Drupal Camp London 2017 to capture the community’s perspective towards Drupal 8. The community perspective from Drupal Camp London towards Drupal 8: I would...
View ArticleAgile in non-tech environments – Empathy mapping with Joe public in Ibrahim...
Building on from my previous post on empathy maps it seems apt to share a real world example of how a non-technical team utilises empathy maps. To build deep understanding of the target audience’s...
View ArticleAgile for Entrepreneurs – as delivered at Google Campus London
A short talk delivered at Google Campus London on the 3rd of April. It probably does not make much sense without the commentary but since attendees wanted access to it, here it is! Agile Entrepreneurs...
View ArticleAgile Coaching: A guide for project managers stepping into a Scrum team –...
This is first of a series of blogs to support traditional project managers I am coaching. To help get their bearings in deep and murky waters of Agile projects and Scrum teams. Before the scrum purists...
View ArticleEmpathy Driven Content Strategy – Drupal Camp London 2017
First and foremost thank you to all who made the time to attend my session on Empathy Driven Content Strategy at Drupal Camp London 2017. Thank you for sharing your time and perspectives. This session...
View ArticleEmpathy mapping – Drupal community and Drupal 8
I carried out a empathy mapping exercise at Drupal Camp London 2017 to capture the community’s perspective towards Drupal 8. The community perspective from Drupal Camp London towards Drupal 8: I would...
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