Category Archives: points of view

After a brief pause to take in the delights of August, stamp is now all systems go. The week ahead mostly will be focused on the Silicon Beach event – a sell-out this year, but I’ll be both updating throughout the two days, and also speaking on Friday afternoon (more details on that on http://mmitii.mattballantine.com/ laterContinue reading “week 1”

I stumbled across a piece written by LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner on the topic of defensive diary scheduling yesterday – see http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130403215758-22330283-the-importance-of-scheduling-nothing. It’s a telling indictment of how technology that was supposed to make us more productive has led to shadow working practices for us to survive. It’s not an unfamiliar story – the dirty secretContinue reading “collaborative warfare”

You don’t have to spend long knocking around most big organisations before you’ll hear the term “best practice”. It’s the often mythical idea that because one group of people in one part of an organisation have found a good way of doing something, that way of working can be lifted and shifted to other partsContinue reading “21st century consulting”

Matt speaking at Metaphwoar 2012 on the power of analogy in software design… http://vimeo.com/60007228