Business

Article — 2 October 2025 — 555 words

The forgotten purpose of agile — Empowered teams responding to change

The ideas behind agile tend to be squashed down to two words: “move fast”. But the Agile Manifesto says nothing about moving fast.

Article — 4 February 2025 — 1,406 words

There’s no such thing as a technology problem

Business — Social science — Society — Technology — Web

Information has become the forgotten half in “information technology”. Tech companies are struggling because they aren’t focusing on the human problems they need to solve.

Article — 12 November 2019 — 430 words

Get out of your comfort zone and talk with people

Business — User experience

To do good stuff, you have to get out of your comfort zone. 10 years ago, just before I got my first job after graduating, I was a scared person. I still am.

Article — 4 July 2019 — 642 words

Managing your professional decline

Business — Formula 1 — Society — Work

It is suggested that a decline in our careers is inevitable, and comes earlier than you might expect. So what should we do about it?

Article — 6 February 2019 — 293 words

Why emails and meetings are good

Business — Work

I’m tired with arguments that email is a productivity destroyer, and meetings are a waste of time. Or that they somehow prevent you from doing your “real work”.

Article — 11 November 2018 — 1,015 words