Author Archives: Paraic

Chaotic Mixing – 8th May 2014

Guidelines for Meetings – don’t do in the meeting what should be done before or after Quakers in Business, Science and Engineering – not ‘just’ in social enterprise, NGO’s, etc. Managing Trust (specifically in software development) – do you measure … Continue reading

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Chaotic Mixing – 20th February 2014

The best Super Bowl ad evvvver How to refocus when you hit a snag Make sure your work/life balance doesn’t disturb that of others The danger of atrophy in agile teams All green at Zemanta has me green with envy … Continue reading

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Chaotic Mixing – 31st January 2014

Yes – a short story worth reading Product Managers stay until the end – fits with my philosophy Dark nights – we all have them so let’s be kind to each other Personal Kanban – must improve my own system … Continue reading

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Chaotic Mixing – 7th January 2014

The Amazon Whisperer – quietly minting it Three love poems – the last is my favourite Soft Tissue – has its uses but beware Iron Maiden as exemplars of data analytics Privilege poisons all our thinking Embrace Chaos – but … Continue reading

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Chaotic Mixing – 11th December 2013

I don’t own a dog but I do love them and their antics Node.js is big and getting bigger Brian Eno’s Windows95 startup sound slowed down 23x A good use of an API to provide a much-needed service Assorted Stupidity … Continue reading

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Chaotic Mixing – 25/11/2013

David Heinemeier Hansson on not allowing others to define what success means to you. I hope McKinsey research in other areas is better than this piece on software metrics – I may have to lump them into the same bucket … Continue reading

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Chaotic Mixing – 23/10/2013

Applying data analytics to education – looks like Design Focused Evaluation on steroids Kevin Mullins documentary photographer What can next-generation database technologies do for you? – perhaps they can make you more agile. If you’d like to be more agile, … Continue reading

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Chaotic Mixing – 14/10/2013

“You must kill your darlings” – Behind the scenes at TEDxDublin Is it a CMS? Is it a database? No – it’s Silk “some of us give so much there is nothing of us left” – we should pursue meaning, … Continue reading

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Can you ever do ‘just the right amount of work’ in Agile?

I spoke at the Dublin Agile Tour 2013 event yesterday on our experience trying to migrate to a product line infrastructure while implementing Agile in Akari Software. My presentation was based, in part, on a joint experience paper with the … Continue reading

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A New Venture – Innovation Island

In addition to everything else on my plate, I’ve been in stealth mode for the past few months with a concept called Innovation Island. Universities patent technologies all the time arising from their research activities. Technology Transfer Offices help to … Continue reading

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