http://www.coclarity.com transforming communication into action Mon, 14 Dec 2009 07:02:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm delivering a guest lecture on the 26-Nov-2009 in the University of Limerick. I'll be talking about what its like to work in agile projects from the developer, tester and manager perspectives. I'll be using the slides from my talk in Enterprise Ireland earlier this week. The lecture will be part of ... http://www.coclarity.com/blog/2009/11/guest-lecture-in-university-of-limerick/ On Monday 23rd November I'll be speaking at a seminar on agile project management. Lero (the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre) organised this free seminar and Enterprise Ireland are hosting it at their offices in Dublin, Ireland. Dr. Kieran Conboy (NUI Galway) will be talking about the current state ... http://www.coclarity.com/blog/2009/11/speaking-at-leroei-event-on-agile-management/ coClarity has been selected for the iGAP programme. The Internet Growth Acceleration Programme (iGAP) has been developed by Enterprise Ireland and the Internet Growth Alliance and is aimed exclusively at high potential internet companies. "Over 6 months, iGAP will equip managers within Irish internet business with the practical tools needed to ... http://www.coclarity.com/blog/2009/11/coclarity-selected-for-igap/ On Friday I got a call from Intertrade Ireland to tell us we won the Seedcorn award for "best venture stemming from a university spin-out or platform programme". The €10k prize will significantly boost our marketing budget. Seedcorn is a business plan competition for companies in the Republic and Northern Ireland. Congratulations ... http://www.coclarity.com/blog/2009/11/coclarity-wins-seedcorn-epp-award/ coClarity has been shortlisted for Irish Software Association's "Emerging Software Business of the Year" award. http://www.coclarity.com/blog/2009/10/coclarity-short-listed-for-isa-award/ coClarity was selected for the Munster Final of the Seedcorn business plan competition. Not only that but the other companies selected (Mobanode and Cauwill Technologies) are also based in the Enterprise Acceleration Centre in Limerick Institute of Technology. http://www.coclarity.com/blog/2009/10/coclarity-selected-for-seedcorn-regional-final/ LEAP is a year-long enterprise and management development programme hosted by the Enterprise Acceleration Centre @ Limerick Institute of Technology. We were selected to facilitate a workshop and day of training on project management. Ronan Skehill, one of the LEAP participants, wrote a great summary of the day. I believe ... http://www.coclarity.com/blog/2009/10/project-management-leap-programme/ I facilitated a discussion at Bizcamp Dublin last Saturday. The talk was called: "Simple Project Management for Startups". 40-50 people showed up for the talk and we had a good lively discussion on the challenges startups and small companies face managing projects and staying focussed. You can get the slides on ... http://www.coclarity.com/blog/2009/09/bizcamp-dublin-slides/ Earlier this year we facilitated a discussion on simple planning techniques for startups at Bizcamp Limerick. We discussed Scrum, Getting Things Done (GTD) and The 4-hour Work Week. We're going to facilitate another discussion on this subject at the upcoming Bizcamp in Dublin on September 19th 2009. You can find the ... http://www.coclarity.com/blog/2009/09/simple-planning-for-startups/ I was a bit of a late adopter when it came to the iPhone. I bought an iPod Touch in the early days as a development device. I was happy with my bulletproof old Nokia 6233 which could take passable video and only needed charging every five days. Then the ... http://www.coclarity.com/blog/2009/09/iphone-3gs-battery-life/