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December 11, 2014

Ruby and Rails development of Heroku sites

I’ve been working on a live project recently and found it necessary to see what was happening on the Heroku version as it was running differently from my development machine. Saying ‘it works on my machine’ doesn’t help the people trying to use the site, so I had to delve deeper and work out a

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April 23, 2014

HEA STEM Workshop on Developing Student-Run Software Houses

In March 2014 I ran a workshop on developing student-run software houses for the HEA at London Metropolitan University in London. The day was broken into two halves with the morning devoted to short case studies with plenty of time for questions, and an afternoon of hands-on workshop starting with Strategic Play session using Lego

March 12, 2014

Lego Serious Play: the literature

There are a number of books and online resources available explaining the background, and philosophy of Lego Serious Play. These break down into a few categories: the history, the theory and the manuals. I’ve not found any manuals, however, which explain everything. This means that in order to move beyond the basic approaches outlined in

March 1, 2014

Play4Agile 2014

Another year and another wonderful Play4Agile conference has happened. For me this was again an improvement on the last year. This is as much to do with the learning I’ve gone through since last year as it is about the mix of people, who were there. I just finished submitting my assignments for ILM Coaching Level 3

January 30, 2014

My Play4Agile Story

People attending this years’ Play4Agile 2014 were asked to blog their answer to these simple questions: Who or what brought you to Play4Agile in the first place? I saw Olaf post a tweet about the first one in 2011 and started following Katrin then too, but couldn’t make it. I was able to meet both of them

January 6, 2014

Aberdeen Culture Hack April 2013

Yes, this is a late post, but I wanted to put the details somewhere I could find them as I’ve found a need for them a few times now. With the help of the city team bidding for Aberdeen as the city of culture for 2017 I helped put together an event for people to

January 6, 2014

Learning to program or code

There’s been a lot of writing on this of late so it seems a good time to pull some of these thoughts together. There is the ‘everyone should learn to code’ camp as shown by Emma Mulqueeny, who runs Rewired State and Young Rewired State, because it helps to form logical problem solving skills and

December 20, 2013

The Dream Team Nightmare

Books tell stories to teach us important lessons in a variety of ways. Many ‘howto’ type books tell us what to do in a logical, linear path from beginning to end. Some of these might have quizzes and exercises that help us to learn the materials. Portia Tung’s book The Dream Team Nightmare uses a different device to help

May 29, 2013

The programme to learn agile development

While the new degree will bring together lean startup and service design, an important part will be agile development too, so that students know how to use good practices to build quality software. All three of these goes well together. A key goal of the new MSc Software Entrepreneurship is to appeal to those, who

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March 18, 2013

New ‘learning by doing’ startup MSc begins September 2013

The new ‘learn by doing’ MSc has gained approval and will start this September with a second group starting in January. While the degree idea I’ve been pursuing for a while didn’t end up being one where teams would work on projects for other businesses, which is what I thought would be most useful, this

Posts by web-team

Ruby and Rails development of Heroku sites

HEA STEM Workshop on Developing Student-Run Software Houses

Lego Serious Play: the literature

Play4Agile 2014

My Play4Agile Story

Aberdeen Culture Hack April 2013

Learning to program or code

The Dream Team Nightmare

The programme to learn agile development

New ‘learning by doing’ startup MSc begins September 2013

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