Many years ago I was training to be a Librarian. I love books, enjoy helping people and had read it was the least stressful of the traditional professions. Then the web came along and my career took a bit of a turn. One of the things I loved though was…

I was thinking about that Classic Dom post over the weekend. Yes I should get a life. No it isn’t on the cards anytime soon. …

When 10 Downing Street hires like a one man start-up at a WeWork — Oh Dom you scoundrel. You just had to liven things up as we staggered into 2020 didn’t you. People are still packing away the decorations and getting used to a world without Bailey’s for breakfast and you are busy throwing grenades at the Civil Service. Mark has already written a…

Principles for the year ahead — I didn’t have a great 2019. It feels like that is far from unique though. I’ve decided to give myself a break though and just move on. Sure I made some sub-optimal decisions (and then doubled down on them!) …

To be honest my head has been all over the place this year and a side effect of that has been my bookmarking has gone to hell and so this is a bit light this year — still I’m trying to get back on the blogging horse so here we…

For the last few years I’ve blogged about my ambitions (and I’ve done some kind of annual review blogpost every year since 2008) for the coming year and then tried to review how they were going over the course of the year. Sometimes this has gone well. …

2019 — 162 folk out of 1183 (with a 65% open rate give or take) subscribers filled in my survey. 76 entered the draw for the book. 5 emerged victorious :) OK this is pretty much the same as last year — most people subscribe but a few sensible souls protect their…

So the decade is drawing to a close and I have seen a few Tweets and posts from people about their (in this case work/professional) achievements and what not over those years. So never one to miss a trend here we go.

fork the theatre — Last week I got asked to give a little talk at an internal client event about making agile work in less than agile institutions and less than perfect circumstances. This actually ended up in something of a therapy session for me on everything that frustrates me about the Agile™ I…