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Thinking the Unthinkable

30 NOV 2011 | Posted in Guardian, test planning | Author Rob Smith

Reading Alex’s recent post regarding the Olympics’ website brought to mind a similar situation faced by the Guardian in 2008, and a simple but effective lesson learned.

How to Improve Services with Fewer Resources

24 NOV 2011 | Posted in agile business change, business strategy, business transformation, business value, NFP | Author Alex McLachlan |

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There were three excellent presentations at yesterday's NFP seminar, and a stimulating and interesting debate about how to get the best out of what is likely to be diminished funding levels in the future. Summary notes and the presentation slides are:

BBC Olympics Website and Web 3.0

21 NOV 2011 | Posted in HTML5, internet, knowledge, semantic web, taxonomy, web 3.0, website | Author Alex McLachlan

The BBC Olympics 2012 website represents a significant undertaking. It's planned to have more than 12,000 pages with individual pages for athletes, teams and event, and thousands of hours of on-demand video. With a dynamic website of this size, the management and “orchestration” of the content is a huge challenge. Particularly when it covers reports, results and statistics, all with live updates.

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Chisel or axe?

14 NOV 2011 | Posted in Agile Business Conference 2011, Agile in Government, agile transition, Government | Author John Wright

I've been thinking about the way Government is approaching the challenge of adopting a more Agile approach to IT.

The current Government ICT Strategy includes the follow specific targets:

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Book Review: Learning in the Digital Age by Cathy Davidson and David Goldberg

07 NOV 2011 | Posted in information theory, knowledge, NFP, social media | Author Alex McLachlan

Future of Thinking (The John D. and Catherine T. Macarthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning)

by Cathy N Davidson, David Theo Goldberg

"The Future of Thinking: Learning Institutions in a Digital Age" gives a very interesting analysis of the how social media and web 2.0 could and should change the way that learning institutions structure and run their learning. The book is aimed at universities, but is equally applicable to any organisation concerned with learning or knowledge, particularly professional membership institutions, such as the British Computer Society or Royal College of General Practitioners.

The book was itself developed collaboratively, with an early draft being posted for comment and a couple of seminars to discuss the main points.

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Responsive Business Strategy

03 NOV 2011 | Posted in agile business change, incremental change | Author Rob Smith

After spending 10 years explaining to organisations that Agile is not simply about engineering techniques and iterations I was delighted to meet with a customer earlier this week who talked of the success he’d had in using incremental delivery to manage strategy and demand within his business unit.

Archive - November 2011