Driving agency success with pragmatic agile approaches

As an accomplished Agile coach, agency business owner, strategist and developer, I have spent over two decades at the intersection of technology, business, humans, and creative problem-solving. My journey began in the trenches of software development, where I honed my technical skills and developed a passion for building elegant, user-centric solutions. This technical foundation has been crucial in understanding the complexities of product development and delivery.

In founding and leading a digital agency, I navigated the challenges of scaling a service-oriented business, mastering the art of client relations delivering high-quality digital products and transitioning projects to value focused support agreements. This experience taught me the nuances of managing client expectations and the importance of transparent, effective communication in building long-lasting partnerships.

As an agile coach, I’ve guided teams and organisations in adopting agile methodologies, focusing on continuous improvement, flexibility, and delivering value quickly. My approach emphasises collaboration, adaptability, and empowering teams to make decisions that lead to better project outcomes.

In my role as a strategist, I focused on business processes and technological innovation. I help client-facing agencies refine their sales approaches and product delivery methods, ensuring they align with market needs and client expectations. My strategy work is informed by hands-on experience in software development, commercial approaches and product delivery in client-facing agencies.

With a client-centric mindset, I support agencies in crafting compelling value propositions, streamlining operations, and fostering a culture of excellence and innovation. My goal is to help agencies not just survive but thrive in the ever-evolving digital landscape by becoming more resilient, agile, and client-focused.

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Virtual Hosts for PHP5 on OS X 10.5 Leopard

I just spent a good hour trying to work out why virtual hosts wasn’t working for me on my local machine. Turns out I needed to:

1) Enable virtual hosts by uncommenting the line

Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

in httpd.conf

2) Add the line

NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1

to httpd.conf. I put it under the line

Listen 80

for now.

then…

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Safely Disposing Of An Old hard Drive Or Computer

So you’re upgrading your computer or replacing the hard drive and you want to be sure that the information on the old drive is no longer readable. Just delete the files or format the drive right? Nope. Still readable by bad people.

The only way to ensure the drive is no longer readable is to destroy the actual disk, and the best way to do that is to….

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