Posts Tagged ‘retrospective’

What a year that was!

Posted in Company Results on January 11th, 2012 by Paul McArdle2 Comments

A few weeks off over the Christmas and New Year break has given me some time to reflect on the year that was, in 2011.

We started that year very wet, and with a few jitters as well (with floodwaters from the Brisbane river threatening our offices).

At the end of the day, our office escaped any inundation (whew!), though we lost quite a bit of productive time waiting for power to be reconnected, and sorting through everything that had been hurriedly packed for the evacuation (still not finished unpacking, to tell the truth).

The important point to note here, however, is that through it all we continued to (seamlessly) supply data feed to hundreds of people around Australia, and across a number of continents – testament to the numerous layers of redundancy built into our processes, and the resilience of our people.

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Reviewing decisions

Posted in Book Review on January 17th, 2010 by Paul McArdleBe the first to comment

The following is my paraphrase of Scott Berkun’s list of questions to ask when reviewing the effectiveness of past decisions. Scott’s points have been taken from (p7172-173) his book “Making things Happen”, which has been separately reviewed.

I have translated them to a more general context, and more specific to our situation, in order that we can refer to them more often in future…

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