August 4, 2021
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Who’s Who

Who’s Who

This post is an experiment to illuminate the readership for this blog, and maybe to foster an increased sense of community, too.

Would you be willing to add a comment to this post with a brief introduction about yourself and what you need from this blog, and from other readers here, too?

A link to an online bio might also be helpful (if you don’t have an online blog with bio, maybe a link to a LinkedIn profile or Twitter page).

Thanks for participating! 🙂

– Bob

27 comments
  2. Mark Batty said:

    I’m Mark, a 30 year vet of the software industry. Enjoyed (most) of Bob’s posts on LinkedIn until he left 🙂

    Short bio in my LinkedIn about page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mjbatty/.

    Nothing specific from the blog at the moment, more general interest.

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  3. Chris McAtackney said:

    I’m Chris McAtackney, I’m a CTO of a small tech company in Belfast and I’ve been following Bob’s writings for a few years now. In terms of this blog, I read it to help get a better understanding of how organisations can become more effective (and to get a more useful perspective on the challenges I’ve faced in my own career).

    I don’t have a blog, but I’m fairly active on Twitter: https://twitter.com/chrismcatackney

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    • Hi Chris,
      My thanks for your continued ongoing support and interest. And for participating here. 🙂

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  4. Clare North said:

    Hi there, I’m Clare and I’m interested in complexity, coaching, trauma, embodiment, in an individual and organisational context. What I like about this blog, is that it brings content that challenges received wisdom and brings together thinking from different disciplines.
    https://www.linkedin.com/in/clarenorth/
    https://twitter.com/LeadingInside (project on embodied change leadership)

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    • Hi Claire, thanks for joining us here and introducing yourself. I hope to continue challenging received wisdom. 🙂

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  5. islomar said:

    Nice! Let’s go 🙂 My name is Isidro López, a 45 years old Spanish guy living on the Mediterranean coast 🙂
    Currently on self-care time, my interests are varied: Psychology, Anthropology, meditation, software and product development, system dynamics, etc.
    In the last years I have been working in different countries as a product developer and “something like” a “Technical Agile Coach” ^___^

    What I like from you and your blog, Bob, is how you open new perspectives to me, especially with your “human-holistic” approach to… everything. I feel honesty in your writing and I like that. I “need” to keep on learning in order to better help other people and myself 🙂

    And here you have more things about me:
    * https://twitter.com/islomar
    * https://www.linkedin.com/in/islomar/

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  6. Been fascinated and inspired by your ideas since long. Will continue to read your posts for more inspiration. My own “TameFlow Approach” would not be what it is without all the righshifting antimatter stuff you produce! 🙂

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    • Hi Steve, thanks for participating and for your continued appreciation of my work. Yay for TameFlow.

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  7. Our paths first crossed sometime around 20 years ago when you and Grant did a presentation at the CMM conference in London. It was my first exposure to the NoProjects paradigm and it was uncomfortable having spent 10 years working entirely in projects. Some of your stuff still makes me uncomfortable on a first read, but I persist and I’m in no doubt that you’ve had a significant effect on my thinking about many things. It’ll be my 60th next year and my current job will probably be my last (thanks to IR35 I won’t continue contracting when I return to the UK) so plenty of time to think coming along!

    https://www.linkedin.com/in/allygill/

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    • Hi Ally,

      Twenty years. Wow. (Not a day goes by without me missing my BFF Grant). I hope to continue making you uncomfortable – in a good way. IR35 has put me right off contracting, too.

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  8. Trained as a scientist, worked my way up R&D ladder and one day the boss came in and asked me to move into continuous improvement–he wanted me to literally apply scientific method to working on business problems (plus x-functional teams, data orientation, etc.).
    Then I went through my Six Sigma phase (high priest) up to becoming an MBB Trainer at ASQ’s main subcontractor for custom SS training–Premier Performance Network. Some of you might know that PPN is what remains of FP&L’s TQM group (FP&L was the first non-Japanese winner of the Deming Prize).
    Over the years, the “respect for people” part of lean really started to resonate with me and I’m still exploring. Having said that, I consider Factory Physics my favorite lean read, followed by Coaching Kata.
    You can see my crazy profile at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brentgrazman/

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    • Hi Brent, good to meet you. And thanks for participating. Your background sounds really interesting and I hope you’ll be contributing some of your deep expertise and experience as we go forward.

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  9. Met Bob at Moogsoft and always interested in what he has to say. I’m intrigued to see how this new model develops.

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    • Hi Max, great to hear from you. I guess you’ve been lurking here for a few years now? How’s life treating you these days?

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    • Hi Benjamin,
      Long time no chat. I’m delighted you’ve chosen to participate in my experiment here. Thanks for introducing yourself.

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  11. Mark Barnes said:

    Mark Barnes – been in the industry far too long – full of admiration for your posts and always get something useful out of them – though often it is tinged with sadness that those who should be reading the articles are blissfully unaware.

    Don’t use social media any more and removed my various blogs over the years.

    I would love to find a true #antisocial platform – have had loads of ideas around this subject for years and just no time / energy to bootstrap them…

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    • Hi Mark,
      Thanks for participating. I hear a lot of people are weary of working in the software industry. And yes, my intended audience is generally conspicuous by its absence. C’est la vie.

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  13. Jeff Grigg: Started learning about computers in 1976, in Junior High School. Have been developing software professionally since 1981. (That includes 5 years in college.)

    I’ve been involved in “Agile” since the C3 team showed up on Ward’s Wiki and kept arguing that everything everyone else was doing was wrong, and that Extreme Programming was the only way. Eventually, I mostly agreed with them.

    Currently employed by Guidewire Software — an insurance vertical for property and casualty (homes, cars, buildings, fleets, farms, and other stuff). Writing code mostly in Gosu — a language mostly like Java — runs in the Java environment, in the JVM.

    – – –

    What do I *need* from this blog?

    Nothing, really.

    I’m generally interested in software development and project management issues.

    “You won’t solve the world’s problems that way!” some people object.
    (Or, really “You won’t fix all the problems of the company!”)
    Well, that’s beyond my scope. I fix the problems I can.
    And maybe this inspires and/or enables others to address their issues.
    Or not. I do what I can, and consider it enough.

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  14. butchhowardgravatar said:

    Butch Howard. Bashing Bits Since 1976. Currently consulting with teams to make there lives better in whatever ways possible. https://www.linkedin.com/in/butchhoward/

    Always trying to learn what ways are possible from this blog and many others.

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  15. horiaconstantinadmin said:

    Horia Constantin: working in IT for 10 years, working with NVC for 2 years. And trying to combine the two. I believe file can be wonderful, we just need to refactor the current system to support that.

    https://www.linkedin.com/in/horiaconstantin/
    https://www.horiaconstantin.com/about/

    Needs from this blog: inspiration, learning, challenging/fresh ideas.
    Needs from other readers: reality checks, diverse/new perspectives that expand or push the limits of the “theory”

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  16. Karina Hillestad said:

    Karina, Copywriter from Oslo. Learning, strategy and your writing interests me. @inahill

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