A Lean Agile Scotland workshop recap — Thank you to the lovely people who came to my workshop at Lean Agile Scotland today (Thursday 14th September 2023). Ecocycle Planning is a Liberating Structure, by which I mean that it is part of the repertoire of methods curated by Keith McCandless and Henri Lipmanowicz in their book The…

Theme: Pause — “Weeks are the four-on-the-floor kick-drum of eternity” Russell Davies This week has been full of doing stuff ready to be away next week. I have been mostly contributing to a slide deck for a meeting on the 19th September when I am back for the project I have been…

Theme: Don’t drop the ball — “Weeks are the four-on-the-floor kick-drum of eternity” Russell Davies Bank holiday weeks are my least favorite weeks. People get stressed about ‘losing a day’ and the week simultaneously seems really short and quite long. …

Theme: Running on empty — “Weeks are the four-on-the-floor kick-drum of eternity” Russell Davies This week I have mainly been coughing. As you can imagine, this has made me very popular. This weekend I have not done very much at all. After last week’s lumpectomy the dog has been really good, she has not…

Theme: A weird week “Weeks are the four-on-the-floor kick-drum of eternity” Russell Davies This week has been a strange one. I spent two days in London but it was not the most useful time…

Theme: Whoops missed a few days “Weeks are the four-on-the-floor kick-drum of eternity” Russell Davies I missed weeknoting last Friday. I was travelling on Wednesday and Thursday and it took a lot out of me. …

Theme: Second and Third spaces — “Weeks are the four-on-the-floor kick-drum of eternity” Russell Davies The last post in Medium is my last weeknote so no writing has been done this week. On Wednesday and Thursday I was…

Theme: There and back again with no snacks — “Weeks are the four-on-the-floor kick-drum of eternity” Russell Davies This week was a full one, dominated by a trip to Woolwich on Wednesday and full of lots of conversations moving me forward in my understanding of the work we are doing at Royal Borough of Greenwich on repairs the…

I have a terrible sensitivity to noise. I can’t focus on a conversation when there is noise in the background e.g. a TV or other people in an office at the end of a Teams or Zoom call. We lived somewhere nice and quiet for a couple of years and…