Adrian helps build successful teams and great products. Working with companies of all sizes he combines coaching & teaching with hands on UX & development work. With more than 25 years experience working as a developer, UX practitioner, team lead & coach you’ll find him ranting in the bar about how agile, product and UX folk need to play nice together. Be kind and buy him whisky.
Sturgeon’s Biases: how communities of practice lie to themselves & everybody else
In this talk, I'll explore these problems through the lens of Sturgeon’s Revelation usually stated as “ninety percent of everything is crud”!
Communicating as an engineering leader
To build great teams you need to understand people. One of your core skills as a leader should be the ability to have effective conversations with your team, the rest of your organisation, and your customers.
Focusing engineering projects on customer value
Are you sick of seeing your team treated as a sausage machine for turning user stories into code? Can your developers only talk about how long something will take, or how exactly it will be built?
