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What’s true just for me and you?
This is an activity I’ve used a few times and found useful, so I thought I’d write it up in case anyone else wants to try it. I think I made this up myself, but if you’ve seen this before please let me know — maybe I saw a version somewhere once and forgot about
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Deliver Sessions: This meetup has potential
July‘s Deliver Sessions was at Greater Manchester Digital Security Hub (DiSH) near Deansgate, where Barclays hosted us. We had two talks, one on hiring for potential and one on unlocking the potential of your teams. A nice pairing! Where do we draw the line at potential? Why it’s important to hire for potential and the
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Lots of links from LeadDev’s LDX3
I went to London for LDX3 in June 2025. This brought 3 other conferences together for the first time (LeadDev, StaffPlus and LeadingEng) into one huge conference with lots of tracks, activities and attendees. I came away with a long list of links to look into later. This post should be handy for me to
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Deliver Sessions: Doing things differently
In May 2025 Deliver Sessions meetup was hosted by Transform, and we heard two talks on the theme of “doing things differently”. It was a great turnout: 64 attendees, a post-pandemic record. This time, we were in the Express Building, a striking building which must have looked space age when it was built in the
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Deliver Sessions: From Oops to Eureka
April 2025’s Deliver Sessions was at Forward Role‘s offices, just off Deansgate in Manchester city centre. This time, we had two talks about getting better at problem solving. Harry and Agnieszka have both had lots of experience with issues that come from rushing into work and challenges, and stories of how taking time to think things
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10 things nobody tells you about OKRs, part 7
I had aimed to get this series on OKR things finished inside of a quarter – I had progress graphs and everything. We got to 7 out of 10 by the very last day of that quarter (December 31st), then up to 9 out of 10 just days into the next quarter (January 4th), and
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“How do I do that in TypeScript?”: Some things I’d still like to know
I tried using Advent of Code to learn TypeScript and it worked very well. I’m much more used to Python and often know what I’d write in that language, so asking “How do I do that in TypeScript?” for some fairly unusual topics has prompted me to learn more about this new language. I’ve written already about
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Deliver Sessions: We need to talk about strategy
I help organise Deliver Sessions meetup, and in February 2025 we had our first meetup of the year at Booking.com’s office in Castlefield. This is on the site of the old Granada TV Studios, where the Beatles made their first TV appearance. I could write a whole post about these studios (including how they briefly had
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Agile in the Ether, IRL: 2025 edition
I’ve been part of the Agile in the Ether online meetup for years, and in 2024 we had a one-day, in real life event in Liverpool. It was so good we decided to do it again this year. Emily Webber has posted about how the overall event was planned and run – a good read!