I recently posted on LinkedIn, asking for suggestions for post ideas. This one comes from James Nowell: I would love to know what your thoughts are around the maximum number of projects a team should be working on at any point in time. The ideal number is one for pure focus time however I don’t […]
Project management
Practical tips for organising your backlog, from my home improvement project
For the last two weeks, I’ve had a bit of a break from blogging while moving into my new home. This week, I’d like to write about taking a backlog of work or ideas and getting them organised and ordered. However, instead of talking about software projects, I’m going to use my recent move as […]
Redesigning City A.M. – March 2016
Summary On 15th March 2016, we released a brand new look for cityam.com. In this post I’ll be digging into the what and why of the redesign.
How I prioritise small requests alongside project work
Recently, I changed the way I prioritise new work requests and projects. Here’s what I’ve started doing. Prioritising the product backlog JIRA is our central system for development requests. There’s one project for smaller requests: the “BAU” as I call it, which is anything that takes 2 days dev time or less. Except for urgent […]