niksilver.com
Mostly about the management of software development
Silver Works Ltd
My specialism is helping organisations get the best out of their technical teams — getting them working effectively with each other and with others, and delivering business value frequently and consistently.
Here are some of the things that show my own values, experience and approach:
Leadership
- See my presentation to the London Y-Combinator community on “Creating Brilliant Teams”
- My team at the Guardian won Best Agile Team 2011.
- I provided evidence to the Institute for Government, whose report kick-started the drive for Agile in government…
- …and my case study is in the Appendix of their report
Delivery
- I was shortlisted for a 2011 Agile Award: Agile Project or Programme Manager of the Year.
- I oversaw a 2 1/2 year, 100-person Agile business transformation project at the Guardian.
- I was invited to give a workshop to the tech startup community in Romania, on “Life Lessons in Agile”
Hands-on
- Here’s an article I co-authored on Domain Driven Design.
- I recently developed a data warehouse for a client, as part of a larger programme of business change.
- I keep my hand in development and have projects on Github.
Other
- I have some recommendations on LinkedIn.
- I write regularly on technology, such as this from my blog.
- Contact me.
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- For London’s Y-Combinator community of tech startups I talked about “Creating Brilliant Teams”
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- The issues really resounded with the audience
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- I led the Guardian’s development team, and they won Best Agile Team at the 2011 Agile Awards
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- I talked to the Institute for Government when they wanted to find out how to bring Agile practices into government…
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- …and my case study can be found in the Appendix of their final report
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- It was hugely flattering to be shortlisted for Agile Project or Programme Manager of the Year among such esteemed company
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- This shows the Guardian’s R2 project: Agile business change, 100 people, 2.5 years, on time and under budget
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- I contributed my experience to the Romanian start-up community, discussing “Life Lessons in Agile”…
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- …and it sparked off some fascinating conversations.
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- Some of my hands-on capability is demonstrated in this article I wrote for InfoQ, together with my colleague Mat Wall
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- This shows a segment of a data warehouse I developed for a client, as part of a larger business change programme
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- I’m the author of Cloud Tasks, a mobile task list app with cloud-based syncing
Silver Works Ltd is registered in England and Wales; No. 72010887; VAT reg no. 124 1964 26.
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