I recently wrote an article posting some analysis of the (awful) gender disparity demonstrated by the number of women entering STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) degree courses, and particularly Computer Science (14% in 2015). I also noted a similarity between that number and the percentage of women being celebrated in the CIO 100 last […]

Back in July 2014, I posted a visualisation of university place acceptances by gender and subject. Back then, there were terrible imbalances in the usual STEM disciplines (too many men, too few women), but a correlating imbalance in nursing, languages and education (too many women, too few men). I thought it would be worth running the

At reed.co.uk, we’ve been 64%* agile for many years. We’ve watched others, tried things ourselves, failed and picked ourselves up again. One of the most recent additions to our internal vernacular is that of ‘Bubble Squads’, or cross-cutting teams that quickly form around particular objectives, achieve their goals and burst, releasing their team members back

“Two boys is half a boy, and three boys is no boys at all” Team size is such a significant driver of the structure and so much research in organisational behaviour, sociology and psychology has been conducted that it rapidly demanded its own post. Here, then, is that post. Jeff Bezos, of the Amazon, is

I present: Uber Testing. You book an Uber, it arrives and a friendly UX tester is sat there, waiting to share your ride across town. You didn’t have much to do anyway, except check emails on your phone. For the next 15 minutes, as your taxi coughs its way across London, you engage in delightful

Kalymnos is an odd little island, thrusting jaggedly out of the Aegean a few miles north of Kos. While Kos is an understandably popular tourist destination, with over a million holidaymakers arriving at Kos airport each year, Kalymnos is a less obvious choice. There are no long sandy beaches, few obvious tourist destinations and a

I’m occasionally asked how to get an executive board to buy into a change programme. Or how to convince a decision maker to buy into a new way of working that may challenge some comfortably accepted wisdoms. Or how to sell something technical to a non technical CEO, or founder, or owner. And the truth