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  • Understanding Data-Less Apps: The Future of IT

    Understanding Data-Less Apps: The Future of IT

    Image1Martyn Rhisiart Jones

    Dublin 9th May 2017 –  revised 21st December 2025

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  • Energising the Agile Way of Working brand and mindset

    Energising the Agile Way of Working brand and mindset

    On my way to Léon

    Martyn Richard Jones

    Brussels 10th June 2019

    Today I want to talk with you about energising the Agile Way of Working brand.

    Sadly, the Agile Way of Working movement seems to be temporarily on the wane. The adoption rate of AWOW has not risen in line with expectations. It’s stuck in the doldrums between Scylla and Charybdis. Which makes for frowns all around.

    But, me being me, I didn’t leave it at that. That’s a challenge, right there! Let’s go for it! Let’s turn those frowns upside-down

    As result, I searched for a way to help the Agile@Scale crowd out, and I eventually came up with ten amazing pieces of incredible advice on how to easily make ‘Agile Way of Working’ truly something worth having around.

    So, here we have it:

    1. First, change its name from the
      Agile Way of Working to the Agile Way of Whacking Off (Agile WOWO), you know, a
      touchy-feely way to “sex up” requirements. Bush and Blair style.
    2. Epics will be referred to as
      Dodgy Dossiers, User Stories will become Curated Jokes and Sprints will become Streaks.
    3. People working on Streaks will
      be known as Streakers, chapter members will be known as Schleppers and guild
      members will be known as Schmucks, everyone else will be referred to as Bernie
      or Helen.
    4. Every morning Dodgy Dossier Owners
      must repeat the term “Agile Operating Model” until they puke their
      guts out.
    5. All Scrum and Kanban boards are
      be replaced with life-sized wack-a-mole models.
    6. Only those kitted out as My Little
      Pony or Princess Line can use coloured post-it notes.
    7. Anyone caught using the names
      Google, Spotify, Netflix or Zappos.com will be denied the oxygen of publicity.
    8. Anyone evidenced repeating the terms
      “by design”, “learning journey” and “minimum viable
      product” will be denied the oxygen of oxygen.
    9. Anyone caught using comic images
      of rockets, astronauts or planets (including the sun) anywhere in their
      “content” will be forever referred to as a feckin space-cadet.
    10. If you can’t defecate rainbows on
      demand then you have no right being involved in Agile at Scale or the Agile Way
      of Whacking Off.

    There you have it. Ten jolly and sensible policies for a happy world of Agile at Scale and Agile WOWO.

    Many thanks for reading,

    This is Martyn Jones of goodstrat.com – THE GOOD STRATEGY COMPANY

    Until next time.

    Contact me at martyn dot jones at goodstrat dot com

  • Three really stupid things you can do with a Data Lake

    Three really stupid things you can do with a Data Lake

    OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAMartyn Richard Jones

    Gif sur Yvette, 27th December 2017

    To begin at the beginning

    First, a thought.

    Just because it’s there, it doesn’t mean it has to be done. Just because you can, it doesn’t mean that you should. Just because you believe you are right, doesn’t mean that you are not wrong.

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  • Postmodern Digital Stories: We’ve never seen anything like this before

    Postmodern Digital Stories: We’ve never seen anything like this before

    Picture2Martyn Richard Jones

    Dunny on the Wold, 23rd August 2017

    The prevailing conventional wisdom is that innovative technologies and their novel use are having an effect on many peoples’ lives. Indeed, the fascination with the possibilities offered by social media, the internet and the age of data is becoming all pervasive. Of course, not all is goodness and light. Some aspects, such as Denial of Service attacks, phishing without a permit and creatively-ambiguous chimping, mark the down side of this story. (more…)

  • IT’S POLITICS: Brexit: MPs must act, now!

    IT’S POLITICS: Brexit: MPs must act, now!

    Picture2Martyn Richard Jones

    Bonn 14th August 2017

    To paraphrase a famous quote, ‘Now is the time for all good MPs to come to the aid of the United Kingdom.’

    Brexit is the enemy at the gate, the wolf at the door and the most significant threat to our collective future. This is our darkest hour of greatest need and Brexit must be stopped.

    Of course Brexit must be stopped.

    And, we have the power to do it. (more…)

  • IT’S POLITICS: Brexit is Bullshit

    IT’S POLITICS: Brexit is Bullshit

    Peppa-Pig-eOneMartyn Jones

    Carmarthen, Wales 20th July 2017

    Let’s face it.

    Brexit is bullshit.

    Maybe it’s worse than bullshit.

    Either way, one thing is for sure. Brexit is the most revealing, significant and catastrophic episode of irrational, self-harming and bloody-minded lunacy in the entire history of the British Isles.

    But, why did it turn out that way?

    What drove so many people to vote for far greater risk, uncertainty about the future and the rejection of the stability, presence and influence that we have within the EU?

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  • Consider this: The ten key dimensions of Applied Business Knowledge and AI

    Consider this: The ten key dimensions of Applied Business Knowledge and AI

    10 dimensions B

    AI, KNOWLEDGE, INFORMATION AND DATA

    “Knowledge is the capacity to give correct answers to questions.”

    “There is no well trodden path that takes a straight line from symbols, through data to knowledge and wisdom. This is just some nonsense invented by the IT industry.” – Martyn Jones

    We may define data as being the symbolic representation of value or conversely of something which has no attached value. Data may represent, among other things, time, money, resources or worldly objects.

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  • How to turn internal user data into a massive liability – Zéro pièce

    How to turn internal user data into a massive liability – Zéro pièce

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    Martyn Richard Jones

    Laugharne 18th May 2017

    “Our discreditable secret is that we don’t know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don’t care that we don’t.”

    ― Dylan Thomas

    Let me explain

    I read a poster the other, it read “How To Turn Internal User Data Into Revenue”. It was one of those Facebook or LinkedIn hooks, you know, the ones used to get people to spend precious time on useless pursuits.

    It reminded me of a book that my mother-in-law bought for my partner, many, many moons ago. “How to make a mint whilst you snooze”, or some such wacky title.

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  • Data-Less Apps: Revolutionary IT

    Data-Less Apps: Revolutionary IT

    Image1Martyn Richard Jones

    Dublin 9th May 2017

    Weighed down with data?

    Inundated with information?

    Overstrained with knowledge?

    Intimidated by wisdom?

    Don’t despair!

    Relief from all of this is just be around the corner, in the shape of the next revolutionary inflection point in IT. Yes, as you might have guessed it by now. I am talking about data-less apps. (more…)

  • BIG DATA GURUS: Trifling Little Fibbers?

    BIG DATA GURUS: Trifling Little Fibbers?

    Rantasaurus ‘Ricky’ Wrecks

    Moscow 1st May 2017

    In this week’s episode of ‘Putin the Bootin…’ Big Data Gurus…! Yep! Hold this thought…

    There are no Big Data gurus.

    THERE ARE NO BIG DATA GURUS!

    T H E R E . . . A R E . . . N O . . . B I G . . . D A T A . . . G U R U S !

    Call these unscrupulous wide-boys what you like, but, in any reasonable sense, when it comes to the Big Data enchilada, the unhelpful clowns who flog fake news, vulgar hype and vain-glorious exaggeration, are not gurus, of any way, shape or form.   (more…)