Blog
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Agile Lean Ireland
It was great to go along to the Agile-Lean Ireland conference yesterday at Croke Park. The event attracted over 500 delegates – over double the amount from last year – from all over Ireland and beyond, and some top-quality Irish and international speakers. It’s great to see the Agile community so engaged with sharing their
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Agile Training
One of the exciting roles I play in my organisation is passing on some of my knowledge of agile working to new colleagues. I’ve delivered a few Agile Overview courses during the last few months, primarily for new Product Owners and Scrum Masters – but also for some of the developers and managers as well.
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Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity
When things go wrong, it can be tempting sometimes to think that people have deliberately caused the problem. It’s the basis of conspiracy theories. We imagine that governments and faceless corporations have gone out of their way to mislead or damage us in some way. When in actual fact, pretty much everything bad that happens
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Departure from Christ Church
After around 8 years service in the choir stalls at Christ Church, I’m due to hang up my cassock for the last time at the end of June 2015. I joined the choir as Lay Vicar in April 2007, having just moved to Dublin from Edinburgh. I knew nobody in the city, had no job
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Highly Connected Household
Have you heard of the Internet of Things? The idea behind it is that more and more of the electrical gadgets in our life are going to be internet-connected. The example that the media always used when talking about the Internet of Things is a internet-connected fridge, which knows when you’re running low on milk,
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All about being a Lay Vicar Choral
For around eight years I was a Tenor Lay Vicar Choral in the choir of Christ Church Cathedral Dublin, one of two Anglican cathedrals in Ireland’s capital city. The choir is made up of 18 Lay Vicars Choral and 4 Choral Scholars, and sings 3 weekly services in the cathedral, as well as additional services on feast days, concerts, and broadcasts.