Author Archives: Liz

An exercise we’ve been practicing at the conference. Sit down for ten minutes. Write. Don’t let your hand stop. If you can’t think of anything to write, write about that. Do this every day, if you possibly can. In my … Continue reading →

Lovely to finally meet Alan Francis and Dave Hoover for the first time. Things I learnt today: I have a hard trouble shifting preconceived notions. (Fortunately Alan and Dave are similar to my expectations.) Whilst working through an exercise in … Continue reading →

I received a letter yesterday morning telling me that one of the four poems I submitted to a competition had been selected to appear in the anthology. Fantastic! But… it wasn’t one of the three carefully crafted, heartfelt or witty … Continue reading →

I will be there. If you’re there too, and anything I’ve written makes you feel like talking to me – even if it’s to tell me that Vogons write better poetry than I do – say Hi. I will be … Continue reading →

Thanks to Dave for clarifying, again, his concept of an apprentice as someone who’s been working in Software Development for less than five years. I think that even within my first five years of software development, there were levels of … Continue reading →

Reading the discussions between Patrick Morrison and Dave Hoover on Dave’s pattern, Resist the Promotion (here and here), I hereby declare them to both be right and propose a new pattern, Step On Up. This is what I think I’m … Continue reading →

Occasionally, getting together with my colleagues from across the world, I’m suddenly reminded of how small the Earth is, and how many gulfs and divisions there are on this little planet. Countries represented at our UK Away Day on Saturday … Continue reading →

Ade is collecting stories about apprenticeships on behalf of Dave Hoover. He asked me to write mine down. So here it is. My educational background is in Electronic and Electrical Engineering, not IT, though I’ve always loved computers. I learnt … Continue reading →

Last night at the XtC, Rachel Davies and Tim Bacon did a dry run of their “Informative Workspace” workshop, to be held at XP2005. Rachel said that she’d taken the term “Informative Workspace” from one of the new practices in … Continue reading →