Archive - August 2011

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Book Review: Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit by Mary and Tom Poppendieck

28 AUG 2011 | Author admin

Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit

by Mary Poppendieck, Tom Poppendieck

This is a book of thinking tools for software development leaders. It is a tool kit for translating generally accepted lean principles into effective agile practices that fit your unique environment. Lean thinking has a long history of generating dramatic improvements in fields as diverse as manufacturing, health care and construction.

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IRIS hosting, Cloud Computing and the Not For Profit Sector

24 AUG 2011 | Posted in cloud computing, hosting, Iris, NFP, security | Author Anthony Flack

I recently attended a briefing at the offices of IRIS, where IRIS introduced their new hosting proposition which targets amongst others the Not For profit Sector. The presentation was well attended by IT managers from a number of existing IRIS clients who I believe found the presentation interesting and informative.

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Social Media from History

24 AUG 2011 | Posted in social media | Author Alex McLachlan

Tom Standage from the Economist gave some fascinating insights into historical parallels to social media in his keynote today at DrupalCon London - "The Future of Social Media - A Historical Perspective". The examples he gave included Martin Luther's traffic statistics in his pamphlet "blog posts" on the excesses of the Catholic Church, the "flame wars" of differing accounts of battles from the two sides in the English Civil war and St Paul as the most successful social media user in the Roman Empire with his letters, copies of which spread throughout the empire.

Multiple Sclerosis Society - Strategic Review and Interim CIO

Posted in agile business change, Agile CIO, strategic IT review

Following an initial review, IndigoBlue provided a part-time interim CIO to implement a programme to transform our IT services from being a barrier to change with poor service levels to a highly regarded partner leading the change programme.”