Rambling thoughts on models
I went down to Surrey on Friday for long walk and pub lunch with Neil Perkin. We’d originally planned to run a workshop about agile
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Rewriting history…
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Who says fun is dangerous?
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These came to be via Tony Quinlan from Terry Tillman at 227company. “You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than
Christmas presence
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