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The idea that imposing limits (or constraints) fuels creativity has cropped up a few times recently. First time was in Garr Reynold’s book on presentations. Second time was in an Unclutterer post on writing. I’m not sure why this should be a surprising concept to me as we have been using self imposed limitations (or patterns) […]

I keep coming back to the ideas in this presentation. Having spent a lot of time in small start ups, the concept of keeping teams small resonates with me. I now work in the public sector where “small” is something we don’t do. OK, the issues we deal with are large and worth tackling but […]

I’ve been running the demo of MyLifeOrganized for a few weeks now and am using it to manage all my projects and actions. Here are some observations:

The windows mobile part is the key for me. I’m using my iPaq to do all the day-to-day stuff and the main app for ‘planning’. A BlackBerry version would be […]

 This month is turning out to be quite busy. Last week I was at a conference looking at transformational government. Later this month I’m off to the Future of Web Apps as part of a project I am currently working on (more on that in later post). I’m quite excited about this one - the speaker […]

I have just taken charge of a new laptop and so have an excuse to spend some time upgrading to the latest and greatest versions of my favourite apps.  First on the list was FeedDemon. I started using the newsgator outlook plugin a few years ago to manage my feeds but switched to FeedDemon when newsgator […]

Listening to an ARCast podcast on getting the balence between too much architecture and too little just right, I was introduced to a term I hadn’t heard before: truck count. This is the number of people that have to get hit by a truck (or get promoted or find another job) for your project to […]