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Matt Kimber

organisations

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Why startups are fun

Working for a good tech startup is fun. There's a lot of energy, a certain amount of chaos, a huge amount of work produced and a general atmosphere of people enjoying themselves at work. It's something a lot of companies struggle to hold on to as they grow, and it's

Ownership: Architecture

I talked yesterday about what happens when development teams lose ownership of the software requirements. In that, I mentioned that teams need to own their architecture and technology stack. Surely this is so self-evident it barely needs mentioning? Well, not quite. In fact, it's incredibly common for developers to be

That's Not Agile

For every 10 companies claiming to have an agile development environment, maybe 1 actually does. This is because "Agile" sounds a lot better than "horrible collection of organisational code smells we've accumulated by having no real process". Here are some things that are emphatically not agile development: * Jumping straight into

Innovation is about commitment

I was talking to a friend of mine last night and we happened upon the topic of how the company he works for talks constantly about innovation while paradoxically producing less and less of it. There's a simple reason for this, best illustrated by two examples. * Innovation in a startup: