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Scrum Training - getting the balance right | DevBalls{}

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Scrum training – getting the balance right. Earlier in the week I had to deliver a training session to one of our most recent additions to the technical team. He’s been there 3 months and, arguably, I should have provided this training already but I wanted to try something different. The manner in which Scrum training is delivered should reflect the themes or the principles of Scrum/Agile itself so I always try to apply the Agile manifesto to the training environment. From which the basic framework was s...

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Hello world! | DevBalls{}

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Ok, so it’s cliche but, in the world of the developer, it’s obligatory, we’ve all done it. Just so you have an idea, I’ve done it with VB5, VB6, VBA, VBScript, VB.Net and now C# (I’ve also done it in tcl but who the hell’s heard of that! Notice the theme here? Pretty much all of it’s built on the Microsoft stack and I’m not ashamed to say it. And now…I’ve done it in WordPress! Sprintboard – a Google Wave gadget for distributed scrum teams. You’ve certainly hit the ground running! Tweets that mention Why ...

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Baker's Business: May 2013

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Thursday, 16 May 2013. Has HS2 suddenly hit the buffers? Some of its opponents might be suggesting that today after a report from the National Audit Office basically said Government hasn't made a very strong case for it. But if you read the report (as I have) you'll realise that its heavily nuanced language does not say that the case cannot be made. Rather, it says it needs to be made clearer. So the NAO is really saying that the case for HS2 is not clear.yet. Neverthless, the NAO's report reads like an ...

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Baker's Business: MIPIM 2015: Property and powerhouses?

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Tuesday, 3 March 2015. MIPIM 2015: Property and powerhouses? In a few days' time, low cost flights from airports across the UK will be full of optimistists. They'll be heading for Nice then hiring a taxi for the short hop up the Cote D'Azure to Cannes. MIPIM here's again. When I went last year it was, to borrow a phrase from one of the Nottingham team "as if an industry which fell off a cliff in 2008 has just jumped back on again". This year will be tougher. Cities like Manchester, Liverpool and Leed...

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Baker's Business: The social media election that wasn't

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Tuesday, 12 May 2015. The social media election that wasnt. So, this was the first social media election, the one where the likes of Twitter and Facebook would play a decisive part in deciding the outcome. If we learned one thing about social media during the General Election of 2015, it is that its status as a reflection of the world we live in needs a sizeable health warning. In other words, a seeming torrent of political activity on Twitter may well have been coming from a comparatively small number o...

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Baker's Business: January 2013

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Monday, 28 January 2013. HS2: Why the race is on for Nottingham. HS2 sounds like a fabulous opportunity for Nottingham. But we also have to recognise that it’s a potentially significant competitive threat. So may be the fact that it’s 20 years away is not necessarily a bad thing. In the East Midlands alone, the route tunnels directly underneath the runway at East Midlands Airport, under the M1 at two points, over rivers, through residential areas. If it stays anywhere near on budget I’d be amazed. And th...

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Baker's Business: Marketing Nottingham: JDI

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Friday, 27 March 2015. Delicate, complex, tortuous. Not exactly the three words you'd choose to sell Nottingham as an inward investment location, but entirely appropriate to characterise the process by which a proper place marketing organisation has emerged. Achieving that is going to require an experienced, respected, yet firm and forensic pair of hands. Nottingham City Council, which has played the driving role, knows who it would like to chair this process. But a key challenge for the person i...There...

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Baker's Business: August 2012

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Saturday, 25 August 2012. Winking at the moon. If there was an icon of human potential in my childhood then I guess it was two things: the Saturn V rocket and Commander Neil Armstrong. I'm old enough to have seen the fuzzy, barely legible black and white broadcasts of the Apollo program, and to have stared in wonder at those first footsteps on the moon. The Apollo 11 mission and Armstrong's giant leap for mankind made you believe that the world could be about the art of the possible. Back in March, I was...

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Baker's Business: May 2015

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Tuesday, 12 May 2015. The social media election that wasnt. So, this was the first social media election, the one where the likes of Twitter and Facebook would play a decisive part in deciding the outcome. If we learned one thing about social media during the General Election of 2015, it is that its status as a reflection of the world we live in needs a sizeable health warning. In other words, a seeming torrent of political activity on Twitter may well have been coming from a comparatively small number o...

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Baker's Business: December 2012

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Tuesday, 18 December 2012. Merry Christmas from O2. Not. What is it about mobile phone companies? They handle the sale of upmarket lifestyle technology through contracts which involve long-term relationship management. And they behave like they’re shifting slightly dodgy used cars. 8220;So how much is this car? 8220;To you mate, just £18.50 a month.”. 8220;£18.50 a month? Brilliant – where do I sign? 8220;Just 'ere mate – and do it sharpish.”. 8220;Righto – deal done then! What do you mean? Here we are i...