An exploration of the partly-demolished New Broadcasting House on Oxford Road with Andrew Brooks

Leading the science of software success

I’ve been a co-organiser of Deliver Sessions meetup (along with Chris Burns and Zoe Rigley) since 2018, and now I do a writeup after each event. Those posts started in 2022 with “an evening of lightni...

Scaling architecture through a structured series of conversations

A meetup for anyone interested in how software teams work well together. Hear talks, discuss them with other attendees.

A meetup for anyone interested in how software teams work well together. Hear talks, discuss them with other attendees.

One of the most useful early lessons I learned in coaching was: it’s not about me sharing or recommending what I’d do in a situation, it’s much more helpful to leave my advice out of it and help the c...

Since I’m among friends, I hope I can be open with you. I started Codemanship 17 years ago in my late 30s, as a response to being asked by a recruiter for the gazillionth time “Why are …

It’s been a relaxed start to the year: May’s Deliver Sessions meetup was the first one of 2026! This time we were at Forward Role‘s offices, just off Deansgate in Manchester city centre. Hannah Dell’A...

A meetup for anyone interested in how software teams work well together. Hear talks, discuss them with other attendees.

Coaching can involve asking a lot of questions — I’ve mentioned several examples already in “A few things about coaching” (where I was surprised by how much people appreciated some wide-open questions...

There is, in fact, such a thing as a bad question.

A meetup for anyone interested in how software teams work well together. Hear talks, discuss them with other attendees.

A meetup for anyone interested in how software teams work well together. Hear talks, discuss them with other attendees.

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Allbirds sold its footwear brand for $39 million, secured $50 million in financing, and is rebranding as NewBird AI to lease GPUs - stock surged 600% then dropped 35%.

I recently wrote a few things about coaching and said I might start a series of coaching notes. Here we go! In that post I mentioned my early habit of breaking into coaching conversations at every opp...

I’ve been a fan of coaching for years, it can really help people or teams improve how they work. When I was first introduced to this skill there were a few things I didn’t find obvious and took a whil...

I’d seen recommendations for this book in lots of places, for years, before I got round to reading it. I assumed it’d be long, serious, and probably not too relevant to me (my job isn’t consultancy). ...

A few months ago my son asked how you solve a Rubik’s cube. I had no idea so we looked it up. A helpful YouTube video from The Great Courses showed us how to solve one in 8 steps. It took a few watche...

In February 2026 I went to Liverpool for Agile in the Ether’s 3rd one-day, in-real-life annual event. For lots of info on how the event worked and what sessions we had, see Emily Webber’s write up: Ag...

I posted a few weeks ago about learning Go with Advent of Code. I’m a big fan of these puzzles — they’re still hard enough for me that it’s a fun challenge, and trying to do them in a new language rea...

A novel and powerful twist on an old classic.

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Thank you for your interest in being an advance reader for The Psychology of Software Teams (working title) by Cat Hicks. I am selecting some interested readers to receive a free advance copy of this ...