Building Successful Communities of Practice is a book that I have published, based on my experience and research. It explains why connecting people through communities of practice supports accelerating professional development; breaking down organisational silos; enabling knowledge sharing and management; building better practice; helping to hire and retain staff, and making people happier.
Tacit is my Agile and Lean consulting company. It has a focus on organisational learning, coaching, training and staff development to help organisations be better through Agile and Lean tools and transformation.
My agile blog where I mostly write about things related to my Agile and lean work. You can also find my posts from the GDS blog and elsewhere, and my well known free Kanban gdocs tool.
Agile on the Bench is a meet up and conference about Agile, on a park bench. It’s been a lunchtime, no-tech event where speakers talk about things related to agile themes since Nov 2014 and became a conference in a campsite in July 2015.
The Diversity Charter is a charter that anyone can sign to raise awareness of the importance of diversity at conferences and events. It was born out of the frustration of seeing the same people on stage all the time. It offers a way for people to pledge their commitment to changing that and some tools to help.
is a small club of people wanting to get fitter. It uses social theory and Slack to create an environment to change people’s outlook and support them in their fitness goals.http://witnessthefitness.club
Pattern and Yarn making and selling knitted hats for charity.
patternandyarn.com
Minimum Viable Book is a project between me and Amy Wagner. We’re writing a book about people who get things done. We are collecting stories from amazing people from different industries and collecting them together to share.
London Shop Fronts is a photo documentation project, a typography study, a photo project and a love letter to London. Since 2010, I have been regularly publishing photos that I take of the more interesting shops that form the backdrop to London’s streets, building up a fascinating historical collection of London.
Yeah! Hackney (now closed) was an independent social network/Hyperlocal community website for people in the London borough of Hackney.
Seeing a gap in online resources that promote community and positive action in Hackney, I decided to create an online forum that helped fill it. I created the site using WordPress and BuddyPress and iterated it to meet the community’s needs, I publicised, grew the site membership and managed the community.
The project was archived with 3215 members and associated twitter account of around 19k followers.
Agile in Leeds is a meetup I set up in Leeds for people interested in Agile in the area. The meetups provides a space for people to meet and talk about ideas. We give everyone the opportunity to contribute by keeping talks short (20mins maximum), encouraging participation and having enough time for people to socialise. I have since handed this over to some new organisers agileinleeds.uk
Get in touch
If you want to talk to me about any of my projects above, please get in touch. Please note, that I no longer live in Hackney and cannot promote any Hackney events.