We have a few large projects on at work to replace key legacy systems and are discussing how to do that. Most of the discussions so far have tended to end up in a position where an incremental piece of delivery of the large overall system has been rejected because we know it will require rework later. In this case, knowing about the rework is good! For large projects which ...

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Yesterday, with the return of my family from holiday, I forgot to make changes to any of my projects in GitHub, and broke my commit streak at 57 days. Initially I’d aimed for making changes on 30 consecutive days, just to try and get some momentum up in making progress on a couple of fairly low-key projects that hadn’t been going...

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of the £14bn spent on technology in UK government every year (over 50% of all IT spend in the whole of Britain), around 70% of all projects end in failure e-Government in the UK – call that transformation?

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And very annoying it is too 🙂 I’ve got about three small but interesting project I’d like to get out the door as soon as possible, but I’m moving house in a few days, and am dead busy at work, so I probably won’t be able to get around to them until late July. Boooooo.

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I’ve spent a lot more time recently (i.e. the last month or so) talking, rather than doing. This has to change. I have plenty of projects I want to work on, time to focus.

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All our new projects at work are being done in Tapestry. It makes my brain bleed. RDF is supposed to be hard, but it’s a walk in the park compared to this.

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