Agile in the City Bristol 2017

Agile in the City Bristol 2017

I was delighted to attend and speak at this conference recently. I saw some fantastic speakers, filled up my brain with awesome new knowledge, and met some fine people. So I wanted to provide a brief post about who and what I saw.

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Agile Ship Building in Bristol

A workshop for the WIP-curious…

I recently went to Agile in the City Bristol. It’s a 3-day conference about all things Agile. I learned a bunch and completely overfilled my brain with inspiring information. (About which another blog post soon…)

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Going full Scrum Master

Tales from DTSMA

In a previous post, I described my life as it was then; part-time Developer, part-time Scrum Master. Things change, and I’ve left the development side behind, taking on the role of Scrum Master full-time.

I’m very fortunate to work with two other Scrum Masters who have gone through a similar career change. So we decided to get together to talk about what we thought of the transition - from full-time Developer to full-time Scrum Master. Welcome to “Developers-Turned-Scrum-Masters-Anonymous”…

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Currying and Partial Application in F#

Currying is one of those subjects that continually seems to slip out of the back of my brain when I’m not looking. So I figured the best course of action would be to put my reasoning on the subject somewhere more permanent.

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Johnny Two Hats

Life as a part-time Scrum Master

I split my time at work between two roles. I’m a Scrum Master for an agile feature team, and I’m also a developer within that same team.

I came to my current company as a simple software developer. But when the Scrum Master role in my team became vacant I stepped forward to take on the role - as a temporary measure. That was around 2 years ago…

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