Mark Nicol articles - 23 total
How do people store their spare tech kit?
Over the last 20-30 years I seem to have accumulated quite a collection of tech odds and ends - do other people do this? and if so how do they store it all.
Life is not a rehearsal
Some notes on Productivity
Growth Mindset Prompts
Some prompts I have in my notebook that I find handy, especially on the tough d...
Thank you so much Dev.to
I've been wanting to say thanks for a couple of days but I don't have the right words. Today however...
How do other people use gists?
Simple question for today, because I've just got round to looking at gists. They seem a super...
Seventeen White dudes
This is quite a striking video. It's by a hero of mine Sarah Mei @sarahmei who writes all sorts of...
Why did you pick the avatar you use?
One of the things that fascinates me about social sites is the sheer variety and creativity of the...
Bloom's taxonomy - a way of thinking about learning.
I've been doing a bit of reading about Learning Domains. It is mildly fascinating how many ways there...
Notes on Hyperfocus
I picked up this book at the airport this week on my way to a meeting. It had a couple of ideas on...
A long-lasting love of Programming Metaphors
Picture Credit: The Evil Queen from Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Art Babbit (animation)...
The cost of things that require zero talent
Back in June last year I wrote some notes to myself about some lessons I wanted to learn and things I...
The Planning Event
How the Planning Event fits into the Scaled Agile (SAFe) process
Some of the key roles in the Scaled Agile team
This follows on from my last article about Scaled Agile. I'd said that there were some new roles...
A quick way to create Google documents.
A question - triggered by a quick productivity tip a colleague showed me this week. If you are a...
Why would you want to 'scale' agile?
Part of a series of articles about Scaled Agile (SAFe)
Why I decided to write an article a day
This is not so much a post as a meta post. It contains the things I should have said yesterday here...
An article a day for November?
Write a dev.to article every day during November. Hardly an original idea - more sharing to keep me motivated.
Some notes on Scrum
A very brief description of the main elements of the Scrum development framework
A side note on Agile
A brief and very biased description of agile.
Leadership is not a task but an attitude.
Thinking a bit more about leadership as it is presented in the SAFe documentation.
A bit more about Lean
This follows on from my earlier notes about Lean. Reading further I realize that what I described the...
A Quick sketch of Lean
Some notes on Lean
