Author Archives: Andrew
If you’re wondering why agile methods don’t work in your organisation, look no further than this. Very funny, but scarily accurate.
In the words of the Tao of Lao-Tsu, “If you want to control something, you must first let it go free”. Big organisations just don’t get this, because too many people want to hold onto their favourite control mechanism. Agility is a culture, and trying to do it inside a culture of formal control is very difficult. Occasionally you can succeed in spite of the controllers, and that’s a real achievement.
See
http://www.halfarsedagilemanifesto.org/
I’m making good progress on sorting out my photos from last year’s Santorini trip, with the intention of getting them finished before the anniversary… 🙂 I was going to publish a series of the Caldera sunsets in weekly instalments. I Continue reading →
Wednesday, September 15, 2010 in
Photography,
Santorini
I’m finally getting round to processing the shots from my Santorini trip – only about a year late! The sunsets over the Caldera really are quite amazing. Here’s one, and I’ll post a couple more over the next few weeks. Continue reading →
Thursday, September 9, 2010 in
Photography,
Santorini,
Travel
Ruminations on leadership, and how leadership responsibilities change with your perspective Continue reading →
There are lots of great car museums in the world, and I’ve visited more than a few. However, the majority are difficult or impossible to photograph, unless you’re a “down in the details” sort of photographer, which I’m definitely not. Continue reading →
Saturday, August 14, 2010 in
Photography
I’ve been developing andrewj.com for about 15 years, and although I’m not that prolific I’ve built up quite a lot of content. I recently converted my blog from an old bespoke (= “custom”, for my American friends) solution to one Continue reading →
We used to take the mickey out of Japanese user manuals for not being written very well. My favourite example was “engine not turning very round”, although sadly I suspect that may have been apocryphal. Now, I think there’s a Continue reading →
Monday, July 26, 2010 in
Photography
Here’s a picture from my Swiss trip last year. I was a little disappointed with my shots from Montreux – it’s such a compact town it’s very difficult to isolate the buildings and features from one another. However, I’m reasonably Continue reading →
Saturday, July 24, 2010 in
Photography
Hi, welcome to my new photo blog. Here’s a shot taken on my trip to Santorini last year, a “grab shot” of a rather nice yacht scudding along in one of the island’s trademark sunsets. The triangular shapes at the Continue reading →
Wednesday, July 21, 2010 in
Photography,
Santorini,
Travel
Well, maybe not exactly a split as such, but a new structure. “Thoughts on the World” is a pretty eclectic mix of professional, personal, humour and photography-related content. However, one reader who follows mainly my “professional” content expressed a wish Continue reading →
Sunday, July 11, 2010 in
Website & Blog
The limitations of Image Stabilisation, and how camera manufacturers could address them very simply Continue reading →
Thursday, July 8, 2010 in
Photography
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