Reflections from Agile Cambridge 2013: Day 3

[This post continues from Reflections from Agile Cambridge: Day 2] Real Options in the real world (Chris Matts) This was a fascinating keynote investigating how we can consider the options we face in project management as being Options in the financial sense: they expire, they have a value and we should avoid committing to them…

Reflections from Agile Cambridge 2013: Day 2

[This post continues from Reflections from Agile Cambridge 2013: Day 1] Change or be changed (Janet Gregory) Today’s keynote dug down deeper into the concept of how we often can’t avoid change. The presentation was split into three parts: types of change, influences for success and how to introduce change. The types of change section…

Reflections from Agile Cambridge 2013: Day 1

For the next three days, I’m attending Agile Cambridge at Churchill College, Cambridge. These are my thoughts and notes from the sessions I attended on the first day (Wednesday 25th September). Keynote: Moving towards symbiotic design (Michael Feathers) Michael’s talk was one of those which warrants further time to digest. There were lots of individual…

M0VFC and M0BLF in Control

Decision-making for Control stations

In Cambridgeshire Raynet, we recently noticed that one of our failings as a group is that only a small proportion of our membership had any experience in operating as a Control station. This reliability on particular individuals was starting to limit our flexibility and so we have embarked on a training programme in the last…

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Using APRSIS32 for Raynet

It’s probably fair to say that, since the demise of UIView, APRSIS32 is the most advanced APRS software for Windows that’s under current development. Unfortunately, it’s also got a really steep learning curve, partly because of its origins in the Windows CE world, which means it breaks many of the conventions common to Windows desktop…