List Archive

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  I've Written an Easter Egg And Now it's Gone 2025~06~04

  How do we define success?

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  I just migrated my website 2025~06~03

  And what I learned during the process. Mostly, I learned that past me was an incredibly lazy person, and present me is a much nicer and more dependable being.

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  An Easter Egg Nobody Found 2025~05~26

  When no-one finds your inside-joke

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  I Changed My View On Estimating Bugs and So Can You 2025~04~16

  Breaking down the common arguments against estimating bugs, why they don’t hold up under scrutiny, and how a more pragmatic approach can actually improve planning, transparency, and decision-making.

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  Helping Athletes See a Bigger Picture 2025~03~17

  Athletic training is about progress and improving. Clinging to single data points like individual rides is nice, but misses the point. What is needed to help see athletes the bigger picture?

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  The Cycling Industry and Software - A Commentary 2025~03~17

  Back in 2027, I conducted some research into the experience users of cycling software have. Eight Years later, what has changed?

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  The Cycling Training Software Market is Highly Fragmented 2025~03~17

  In 2017, I conducted some research regarding the user experience of cycling software. It created a lot of valuable insights, most of which are still relevant today.

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  The Planning Conundrum 2025~03~17

  Users of cycling softwar agree that planning their training is important, yet don't use their software to do so. What's up?

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  Add Some Hooks 2025~02~24

  Jump-start our day and make sure you work on the things you actually wanted to work on.

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  The Rule Of Reciprocity 2025~02~19

  The obligation to give, the obligation to receive, and the obligation to repay.

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  Frames of Reference and the Zanclean Flood 2025~01~14

  Cataclysmic change, threshold filters and scale.

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  When is a Good Time to Write Meeting Notes? 2025~01~08

  Struggling to make sense of your old meeting notes? Try this timing strategy to stop wasting your own time.

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  Go for a Walk 2025~01~05

  When stuck, stop thinking and put your body mind to something else.

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  Some Things You Can't Measure 2025~01~05

  Most definitions of success are geared towards measurable - quantitative - goals. But is this really always the best way to see success? What sense do metrics make when what you're looking for is some sort of quality?

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  My 2024 Year in Strava Music 2025~01~04

  Enjoy a year full of music and bike riding.

  

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  Build your own group of change agents 2024~11~05

  Explore how value stream mapping can extend beyond process improvement to drive meaningful organisational change by building a community of change agents.

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  Use Value Stream Mapping for Unlearning 2024~9~14

  Value stream mapping isn't just about processes—it’s a powerful tool for driving unlearning and reshaping team behaviours.

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  Pivotal Moments in Value Stream Mapping 2024~9~01

  How value stream mapping can lead to transformative breakthroughs by identifying pivotal moments where teams shift from small process improvements to reimagining workflows.

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  Use Value Stream Mapping to Overcome Silo Thinking 2024~9~01

  Exploring how value stream mapping helps organizations overcome siloed thinking and drives meaningful change by exploiting pivotal moments, strengthen unlearning and supporting change agents.

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  The End of Agile, or the Beginning of Something Else? 2024~09~24

  A pragmatic approach to agility is more productive than dogma.

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  Slow the Fuck Down 2024~09~20

  Speed is not the answer to everything. Even if delivery culture tells you so.

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  Invite, don't Invent 2024~07~30

  Stop hunting for calendar slots for new recurring meetings. Ask the people you want to have a conversation with to join an already existing one.

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  Serendipity and Obsidian 2024~07~29

  Add a bit of funk to your conversations with your notes.

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  That one Flow Hack 2024~07~26

  How to use the concept of Flow to check in with your feeling towards a task before you even started it.

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  Test Automation and Agility 2024~07~25

  Solid testing practices are not a nice-to-have for agile software. They are essential.

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  Trust and Insecurity 2024~07~18

  When we talk about 'trust' in a team, what exactly do we mean by that?

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  The Importance of a Change in Environments for Unlearning 2024~07~15

  Environments define our actions. How changing environments can help you unlearn and start transforming

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  AI is a Dangerous Shortcut 2024~06~22

  Using AI to substitute our own creativity is a desaster.

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  Two Solutions, one Problem? 2024~04~24

  How to react when people find very different solutions to the same problem.

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  Failing to Integrate Transformative Work 2024~04~09

  Continuous improvement requires us to not only do "the work", but also working on how we're doing the work. Yet many teams and organisations fail to do that.

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  How I See the Scrum Master Role 2024~02~13

  A successful Scrum team builds a great product. A successful Scrum Master helps the team be successful.

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  Towards a Human Way of Working 2024~02~13

  A sort of manifesto

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  My 2023 Year in Strava Music 2023~11~15

  Enjoy a year full of music and bike riding.

  

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  Rest and Growth 2023~9~17

  In order to grow, you need to prioritise rest.

  

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  The Review Sweet Spot 2023~9~04

  Getting the most out of a review session with your stakeholders.

  

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  What is 'Work'? And What is 'Good Work'? 2023~09~29

  What philosophy can tell us about work

  

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  When Its OK Not to Focus on the Outcomes 2023~09~21

  Defining goals for performance or processes can sometimes lead to better results than focusing on the outcomes alone.

  

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  Commitment and Compliance 2023~06~26

  The complex relationship between two different forms of engagement

  

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  Stop Planning the Unplannable 2023~02~12

  Embrace uncertainty and plan for how to handle the unplannable.

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  Free Your Mind From Thoughts About Catastrophes 2022~11~20

  Writing down hypothetical catastrophic consequences of our actions can create space to explore our options.

  

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  Make the Zeigarnik-Effect Work for You 2022~11~11

  Holding information in short-term memory is demanding and takes up too much mental capacity. Consider the Zeigarnik effect to free your mind from this taxing task.

  

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  Banning political debate from the workplace is wrong 2021~05~02

  There is no point in denying people collective sense-making in turbulent times.

  

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  The Risks and Benefits of Agile Practices in Distributed Organisations 2021~01~22

  Distributed work environments pose unique challenges for successful collaboration, especially if you're used to working co-located. Creating the right environment for Agile practices to be successful in distributed organisations is not that hard, though.

  

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  Scaffolds and Ladders 2020~9~22

  Making the case for frameworks and taking the time to construct them.

  

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  Who is my boss (anyway)? 2020~9~18

  Roles, Responsibilities, organisational Anti-patterns and Going Rogue.

  

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  Personal Boundaries and SEPs 2019~09~24

  When people’s deficits become your problem, it’s time for a change.

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  How Evernote become my Operating System 2018~02~21

  And how this turned out for me

  

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  9 Vignettes in three Acts about everyday Life and logical Fallacies 2018~01~29

  Digital development realities, as told by logic and the errors in our reasoning

  

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