Paul Grenyer

HELP KEEP NORWICH & NORFOLK ON THE TECH NATION MAP IN 2018 Tech Nation is a groundbreaking series of reports on the UK’s digital tech ecosystem. Over the last three years – it has captured the strength, depth and breadth of activity across the UK. It has revealed the scale of the digital tech sector, captured its growth, and – crucially – developed an understanding of the characteristics of the communities driving it. We hope to make Tech Nation 2018 the best report yet. To do this, we need your help. Last year the survey had 2,700 responses, this year we hope to reach 11,000 responses, and to hear from all tech communities in the UK to allow us to provide the most up to date and insightful data on the UK tech community in 2018. If you work in or run a business in the technology, digital sector or any business that is related to or supports these sectors such as investors, legal, education etc. then we need your input. We want to hear from you on topics such as diversi...

What: Full Day Workshop: BDD with Cynefin - Liz Keogh When: Wednesday, February 7, 2018, 9:00am to 4:45pm Where: The King's Centre, King Street, Norwich, NR1 1PH How much: £130.00 RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/Norfolk-Developers-NorDev/events/245781564/ Behaviour-Driven Development is a practice in which we talk through different examples (scenarios) of how a system might work, from the perspective of its many users. In this unique tutorial we mix BDD with Cynefin, the sensemaking framework that helps makes sense of the world around you and the problems you encounter depending on their predictability. The course provides thinking and conversational tools to enable teams, product owners and managers to address risk early, develop a deep understanding of requirements at different scales, shorten the time needed to reach that understanding, produce high-quality, innovative solutions, and create human-readable, relevant and memorable tests as a by-product… and it...

Mini Habits: Smaller Habits, Bigger Results Stephen Guise  (Author) ISBN-13: 978-1494882273 I’ve read quite a few self help books and while they always seem really good at the time, I’m not particularly good at following through. I guess I don’t necessarily have the willpower or the presence of mind to do what they recommend. Mini Habits are different. They’re to small for failure. There’s lots of repetition, which is slightly irritating until towards the end of the book the when the author hints as to why. As the author often says, you start with ridiculously small habits, the reoccuring examples are one pushup a day and writing 50 words a day, because it gets you into the habit, making it easier to do more. But you only have to achieve the small habit you set out to do. That’s what success looks like. So you can’t fail. The book was recommended to me by my good friend Tom Bool . Soon after I started reading the book I started walking everyday right around the park. T...