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I'm now on twitter but not promising to tweet regularly or
frequently. The bizarre thing is that since I joined twitter
and before I tweeted for the first time, someone I have
never heard of started following me. If you do want to
follow me (and I'm not sure why anyone would) then you can
find me @project-success.
I've recently been visiting a few of England's universities with my eldest son, looking at computer science/computing undergraduate degree courses. So far none of the universities that we have looked at have done anything that comes close to teaching about agile methods, indeed at one university a discussion broke out between 2 of the tutors about whether or not they still taught SSADM. They were totally surprised when I said that agile was mainstream with many banks having adopted agile methods. If universities are really going to produce the workforce of tomorrow, surely they need to be embracing the working methods and practices of today?
Yesterday I attended the CBI conference where it was very
refreshing to see that in a straw poll about 25% of the
audience indicated that their companies were likely to hire
new staff in the coming year. It was even more interesting
that in another straw poll nobody indicated that they
thought the much talked about "double dip" recession would
materialise.
Well it's been a while since I posted anything on here and
there are some things worth catching up on.