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Chris

What Product Owners do wrong with Scrum Sprint Goals and how to fix it.

Sprint goals are there for a purpose — don’t treat them as an afterthought!

3 min readFeb 22, 2024

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A focused businesswoman in a smart suit sits at her desk. Her expression is one of urgency as she types rapidly on the keyboard, trying to meet a tight deadline.

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Chris

Ukraine’s Dnipro bridgehead and what it might mean for the war…

For at least the last month, Ukrainian forces have been engaging in activity along the eastern bank of the Dnipro river. In the last few…

4 min readNov 19, 2023

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A foggy view of the Dnipro river with a navigation buoy in the foreground and a misty view of the far bank in the distance.

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Google Bard is not reliable for returning share price information

This is the conversation I held with Google Bard to test out its ability to provide information from the internet. If they can get this…

10 min readSep 5, 2023

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Google Bard is not reliable for returning share price information

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Chris

Who blew up the Nova Kakhovka dam?

TLDR: it was the Russians

2 min readJun 9, 2023

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Who blew up the Nova Kakhovka dam?

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Przemyśl falls — the Austro-Hungarians lose their greatest city fortress of the Great War

The fall of Przemyśl, an Austro-Hungarian fortress town, was a huge loss for the Austro-Hungarian empire.

4 min readApr 24, 2023

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A very grainy panoramic picture of a city. A few churches and other significant buildings are prominent.

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Sea Raven

The canal looks cold, muddy, uninviting. It’s cold, with a chill easterly wind that tugs insistently at the post-industrial landscape. I’m…

3 min readJan 24, 2023

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Stock image of a cormorant’s head.

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7 Best Practices for Writing User Stories

Building software is hard

7 min readSep 29, 2022

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Black and white photo of the Capitol building in Washington DC under construction. There’s plenty of scaffolding around.

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Porter’s “Five Forces” Business Strategy Model

The “forces” you need to understand to have a profitable business.

6 min readMay 31, 2022

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Porter’s five forces model showing a central circle of arrows with additional arrows pushing in from the top, bottom, left and right. Each arrow is labelled with one of the five competitive forces that affect companies in a market.

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GDPR Regular Review Tasks; the bit everyone forgets!

Your organisation is GDPR compliant, but how do you stay that way?

4 min readMay 15, 2022

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A finger pointing at the word evaluation surrounded by arrows arranged in a circle.

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“Blue Peacock”, the atomic land mine with a hidden secret.

A look at the strange history of Britain’s Blue Peacock atom bomb land mine project from the 1950s.

13 min readMar 22, 2022

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Mushroom cloud from a Blue Danube bomb dropped from an RAF Valiant B1 at the Maralinga test site in Australia. Those poor kangaroos.

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Chris

Chris

I’m interested in lots of things and write about them. History, nature, environment, business topics, experimental stories and anything else I fancy.

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