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As many of you will be aware, I’ve recently returned from operating as VP9/M0BLF in Bermuda. Overall, it was a great trip but it was marred on a few occasions by some discourteous and unruly operation by a small proportion of the DXing community. A lot has already been written about pile-up behaviour but I…
As many of you will be aware, I’m currently on a DXpedition to Bermuda, operating as VP9/M0BLF (other operators on the same trip are VP9/G3ZAY, VP9/M0VFC and VP9/G7VJR). About half-way through the week, we’ve made over 6000 contacts, which is a great result for a part-time holiday-style operation. That is, we’re having time to do…
I’ll be part of a group of five operators from the Cambridge University Wireless Society (along with M0VFC, G3ZAY, G3VFC and M1BXF), operating from Ascension Island as ZD8UW next week. Here’s the ‘official’ announcement: ASCENSION ISLAND, ZD8. A group of operators will be QRV as ZD8UW from Green Mountain from December 2 to 6. Activity will…
My colleague, Simon (aka The Agile Pirate), has written a post on his blog about how our team’s Scrum Board has evolved over the past year. Until I Simon’s summary, I wasn’t quite concious of how much we have achieved since January. It’s probably worth supplementing Simon’s post with something about the aim of the…
[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…
[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…
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…
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…
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…
I recently blogged on the Red Gate development site about a recent project management experience that resulted in a release going horribly wrong, what we learnt and how we recovered. Read more: http://dev.red-gate.com/continuous-improvement-in-action-a-war-story/