Behind the Scenes at Global-Roam

You don’t have to of read much of this blog to realise that over the last few months Global-Roam’s software development practises have been changing as we adopt a more structured, and more agile, approach.

As has been made clear by a recent visit by Steve Hayes from Cogent, and our other attempts to learn more about agile, there is a thousand ways we can improve. This makes it easy to be stunned, like an animal caught in headlights, and instead do nothing.

So last week, Stephen and I worked out what the next level of low hanging fruit was, and have put together this plan to reach it.

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I just came back from a convention by the Australian Institute of Management (AIM) on “making a name for yourself.” The speaker was Scott Ginsberg, who has quite literally been wearing a nametag 24/7 for several years (he even has one tattooed on his chest). He was really quite interesting…

But forget all that. Because I won a prize. I got given all his books. Here’s me with his books with the greatest cheesy smile I could pull:

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Part of the weekly life here at Global-Roam is book reviews. Each employee is given a constant supply of books to read and every few months we review what we have been reading. These books cover any number of topics such as psychology, selling, programming skills, selling, project management, data analysis, business theory, and self-organisation.

Over the years a key part of our book reviews is the “binary review” – a 0 or 1 for if the book was good or bad (we are a bunch of nerds after all). We’re also keen to learn practical ways in which we can directly improve the processes in our business.

On this blog we’re going to post a few of these reviews to give you some insight into how we work. We also have a secret, sinister motive of helping us to think about what we will say before our meeting… read more »