Ashby WinchDancing With Gravity: What if you Weren’t Afraid of Change?It’s counter-intuitive, skiing. The ground is right there under your feet just as it is in the summer, but it slips and slides away so…Aug 31, 2020Aug 31, 2020
Ashby WinchAgility versus stabilityDelivery-focused people talk a lot about agility in software development. How can we turn on a dime? How we can we respond to the whims of…Mar 9, 2020Mar 9, 2020
Ashby WinchContemplationGalilea hid in the Contemplation Room again. It was always empty, and quiet, when empty and quiet could be hard to find.Mar 2, 2020Mar 2, 2020
Ashby WinchStop Distracting Your Users From Their JobsIf you work in the software industry you may have noticed that software developers sometimes almost fetishise concentration and focus. We…Feb 24, 2020Feb 24, 2020
Ashby WinchThe Developers Are My Customer: Four Pillars of ValueSoftware product management is a huge and increasingly mature discipline. It helps answer questions around what might bring value to our…Feb 17, 2020Feb 17, 2020
Ashby WinchAll Architecture Is TransientIf you read wise tomes about software architecture, you’ll soon come across the concept of “views”. Business process views, data flow…Feb 10, 2020Feb 10, 2020
Ashby WinchAccomplishments Disappear: Technical Debt and TetrisIn the software world we talk about “technical debt” a lot. We accumulate it when we hurry something into production and don’t stop to take…Feb 3, 2020Feb 3, 2020
Ashby WinchNot Afraid Of Storms: Leadership and LighthousesThere’s a lovely nautical metaphor that’s used in the Devops community: the North Star. The North Star is an agreed point very, very far…Jan 25, 2020Jan 25, 2020
Ashby WinchLeadership mindset: Talking back to the brain weasels.Much like everyone else — I suppose — my brain likes telling me stories. It tells me stories about the way I am, about what other people…Jan 12, 2020Jan 12, 2020
