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  • Learning more about constructing business cases at Mobile Academy

    Learning more about constructing business cases at Mobile Academy

    I’ve just started attending classes by the Mobile Academy, a great joint initiative by Uni­ver­sity College London (UCL) and Mobile Monday London. The first class that I attended was run by Ian Merricks, a seasoned investor and Managing Partner at White Horse Capital. It was interesting to hear Ian’s thoughts on the importance of proving…

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  • User stories revisited, learning from Gojko Adzic

    User stories revisited, learning from Gojko Adzic

    As Gojko Adzic is currently drafting his book titled Fifty Quick Ideas to Improve your User Stories, I picked up the following useful tips from his latest draft: Card-Conversation-Confirmation – The book assumes that readers are familiar with the concept of “Card-Conversation-Confirmation” (see Fig. 1 below) and the “INVEST” model (see Fig. 2 below). Both assumptions made…

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  • Do (Product Review)

    Do (Product Review)

    I guess we all know how frustrating it can be to have to sit in meetings that just feel like a waste of time or that could have been dealt with in 30 minutes (instead of 3 hours). I know that there are quite a few apps out there which help us to run more productive…

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  • Luke Jerram and Playable Cities

    Luke Jerram and Playable Cities

    I really like the concept of a “Playable City”. At a recent conference, Clare Reddington, Creative Director at Watershed, spoke about the concept of a Playable City. A Playable City is a city where people, hospitality and openness are key, enabling its residents and visitors to reconfigure and rewrite its services, places and stories. In…

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  • “Agile Retrospectives” (Book Review)

    “Agile Retrospectives” (Book Review)

    I believe that retrospectives can be incredibly valuable to any team. Taking the time every now and then to take a step back as a team and to reflect. How are you doing as a team? What have you learned from the things you did or released in the past period? Where and how can…

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  • Electric Objects brings art from the Internet into your living room

    Electric Objects brings art from the Internet into your living room

    I recently found out about Electronic Objects, “a computer made for art”. An Electric Object is effectively a wall-mounted device which comes without a mouse or a keyboard. It promises to bring “art from the Internet into your home”, and I can see that it will do exactly this: Designed for the home (1) – The…

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