Before you panic and think I’ve turned to the dark side and embraced LOL’s, BRB’s, and BTW nonsense favouring text message speak I urge you to relax. FoMo is a real term, yes, its an abbreviation but this one is a bit more serious. FoMo is short for Fear of…
Change is like taxes, inevitable. George Bernard Shaw once wrote that ‘Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything’. With this in mind, why does change seem so difficult? There is no single answer to this question. It’s often a combination of influences…
Ok, I confess that the title whilst intriguing, has used more than a little literary licence but there is an element of truth behind it. You see, I’m using the past as I write this article on a 1968 Remington typewriter. I find that it makes me think in a…
Discrimination is still very real, even in 2020. I’ve learnt that there are segments of the community that are treated either overtly or covertly in a manner that is not appropriate, this permeates the workplace despite organisational policy and public statement. I get this as a company’s values are not…
I get this question a lot, especially when people find out that my master’s degree was in Islamic Finance. so, let me try and explain the what’s, the why’s behind my studies. I’ll reframe the above if you don’t mind, into a slightly different question. So, what have I’ve learnt…
There are really two explanations that one can offer to this question, the first is a comparative answer for the IT savvy, Low Code/ No Code (LC/NC) can see comparisons with the 4GL (Fourth Generation Languages) approach seen in the 1990’s and 2000’s. The business answer is that LC/NC is…
Gender equality and diversity are a constant struggle, one that we have become more aware of through media campaigns, marches, demonstrations and through workplace activities. Yet the pace of change is painfully slow. Diversity and Inclusion is now commonplace, yet discrimination, verbal and physical abuse is on the rise. The…
As I write this sat at my keyboard, I have The Ride of the Valkyries tune in my head with the image of helicopters coming towards me not full of soldiers from Vietnam but of Scrum Masters and self-proclaimed Agile Guru’s rising up in defence of a methodology. I pause…
Ok, so you might have heard of Earned Value (EV) but what is it and why isn’t it an important factor in a lot of projects? It’s a tough one to say why it’s not used a lot. Away from construction projects, in the past 20 or so years I’ve…
I’ll start with an explanation of technical debt, although its an accepted term, it’s still not a widely known concept. Knowing what technical debt is, what causes it and how it impacts an organisation is moving towards being a critical-mass issue. Technical debt is the overhead or cost associated with…
