* Posts by rcaller

5 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Jul 2010

Agile Manifesto co-author blasts failure rates report, talks up 'reimagining' project

rcaller

I tend to go further than that, agile (with a small a) is a toolbox of techniques that you can use to make sure you are delivering value quickly and sustainably. I include all of the tools from Lean, XP and more in the agile toolbox. You iterate on your process until you have a combination of techniques that work for your particular team

BBC websites down tools and head outside into the sun for a while

rcaller

The BBC just turned everything off to reduce their AWS bill by enough to pay off Sir Cliff.

HMRC's switch to AWS killed a small UK cloud business

rcaller

Unstable Cloud

I am pretty sure that the reason that HMRC wanted to move from Datacentred and UKCloud is that the service provided was constantly breaking and had next to no inbuilt cloud tooling. The HMRC's 'tax platform' is a valiant attempt to build a good system but was crippled by poor reliability from the cloud providers.

BBC, ITV gang up on YouView with 'FreeView Connect'

rcaller

Re: So Freeview Connect needs to deliver a single, consistent, usable UI.

See TAL the open source TV Dev framework from the BBC

Proprietary software puts pacemaker users at risk

rcaller

Software Freedom Law Show on this topic

http://www.softwarefreedom.org/podcast/2010/feb/16/0x21/