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·Aug 12

Weeknotes S02 E19 — Reflections on a year (almost)

Due to a recent family issue and some other personal stuff I’ve felt a bit distant from weeknotes for a while. So haven’t felt the desire (or need actually) to write anything lately. But I’m coming up on nearly a year in this role, and a bit of self reflection…

Weeknotes

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Weeknotes S02 E19 — Reflections on a year (almost)
Weeknotes S02 E19 — Reflections on a year (almost)
Weeknotes

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Jun 28

Death by Digital

Dealing with a bereavement using online services — A recent death in my family made me switch to being a user in managing a significant life event. I had a number of joys and frustrations in dealing with this so I thought, in the spirit of working in the open, I’d capture them as user research to share…

Digital

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Death by Digital
Death by Digital
Digital

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·Jun 10

Weeknotes S02 E18 — Stop and think

It’s been a heady week of news nationally; the GOV.UK Strategy rethink spawning numerous twitter responses from the digital community, Apple launching its strap-on face furniture that could raise the stakes for how VR/AR is used and empty wallets in the process, plus political shenanigans aplenty in the UK and…

Unconference

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Weeknotes S02 E18 — Stop and think
Weeknotes S02 E18 — Stop and think
Unconference

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·May 20

Weeknotes S02 E17 — Don’t Have the Vegan Morning Roll

This week I managed to travel 1,112 miles to attend an event, get there and home again in the space of 41 hours, and not stay in a hotel. The only bad part of the experience was the ‘vegan sausage in morning roll with sweet pickle’ breakfast. It was really…

Train Travel

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Weeknotes S02 E17 — Don’t Have the Vegan Morning Roll
Weeknotes S02 E17 — Don’t Have the Vegan Morning Roll
Train Travel

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·May 14

Weeknotes S02 E16 — Everything Everywhere All at Once

(I’m shamelessly stealing my colleague’s favourite description of our current pattern of work for this weeknote title) In short, there’s a lot going on; customers about to go live, The Big Project on the verge of completing, my own project kicking off, more demands on what we need to get…

Agile

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Weeknotes S02 E16 — Everything Everywhere All at Once
Weeknotes S02 E16 — Everything Everywhere All at Once
Agile

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·May 7

Weeknotes S02 E15: It’s not all about delivery

It turns out grand children have no respect for proper release planning. Rather than waiting for her place in the next sprint, young Lilian Rose decided that the early hours of Sunday morning was a more appropriate time for delivery than her planned caesarean section 3 weeks from now. I’m…

Agile

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Weeknotes S02 E15 — it’s not all about delivery
Weeknotes S02 E15 — it’s not all about delivery
Agile

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·Apr 30

Weeknotes S02 E14: Sparking joy

I’ve been thinking about things that bring pleasure this week, partly after watching American Beauty and seeing it so starkly portrayed, but partly through some of the work I’ve been doing. …

Agile

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Weeknotes S02 E14: Sparking joy
Weeknotes S02 E14: Sparking joy
Agile

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·Apr 22

Weeknotes S02 E13

Blog post hoc, ergo propter hoc — Trying out Daily Notes My reflections recently on how my weeknotes are often influenced by the most recent events (what I like to call the ‘Oscars Awards Syndrome’) has led me to trying out Daily Notes this week as a way of better recording events throughout a week. Private ones though. This was influenced…

Agile

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Weeknotes S02 E13
Weeknotes S02 E13
Agile

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·Apr 15

Weeknotes S02 E12

What a difference a week makes — Writing weeknotes is a cathartic process. Particularly last week where I’d logged off, convinced that everything had been bad, and then worked through events properly in my mind as I wrote things down the next morning. …

Weeknotes

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Weeknotes S02 E12
Weeknotes S02 E12
Weeknotes

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·Apr 7

Weeknotes: S02 E11

More downs than ups — This week was meant to have been the quiet week, where everyone is off on Easter holidays, leaving me swathes of free time due to lack of meetings, and allowing me to get my teeth into work always being set aside for another day. Monday looked like being just like…

Agile

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Weeknotes: S02 E11
Weeknotes: S02 E11
Agile

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Product Owner with Placecube. Local Gov survivor. All views are my own. This is a Format #2 blog (https://www.usethehumanvoice.com/formats/)

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