Behind the Scenes at Global-Roam

I was first introduced to Tom and Mary Poppendieck at a software conference (ASWEC) earlier this year. Lean Software Development is a continuation of the themes that they touched on at that conference. With their familiar analogies from other product development disciplines, Tom and Mary provide thought provoking ideas and practical exercises to help increase the value of software.

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This week we launch NEM-Watch 8.2, an upgrade to our much loved market watching software.  This upgrade was started in early 2008 while I was living in the UK and needed some extra cash to fund my global exploits.  Armed with a laptop and VB6, I began NEM-Watch’s transformation from ugly duckling to swan.  The 15 months that followed would be a roller-coaster ride providing some valuable life lessons and highlighting many of the do’s and don’ts of software development.  It’s hard to make duck-lovers take to a swan. read more »

The time was half past seven in the evening.  It had been dark for an hour outside.  My stomach was empty, but I pressed on.  It was quiet in my study at home, the only activity - my feverish typing away at the keyboard.  I was almost done, joy within sight.

You see I was finishing the design specification for the latest iteration of ez2view.  This version was going to be the most ambitious version of our products yet and, after heavy internal debate, we had finally decided on where the product would go.  I spent the last week researching the technologies that we needed and designing the core structure of how the program would work.

Who am I?  My name is Stephen Hurn and I am the Product Manager of ez2view Australia and its companion product ez2update Australia.  I have been with global-roam since 2006 and have seen the company grow threefold over the last three years.  I will occasionally be pontificating on this blog about my times at global-roam.

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