Flow Focused
Field notes on teams, flow and business agility.
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February 2026
2 entriesJanuary 2026
9 entriesBurnup Forecaster
An Excel workbook that uses historical throughput to provide probabilistic forecasts for project completion.
Alternatives to American Services
A comprehensive directory of non-US tech alternatives to promote digital sovereignty.
A Catalogue of Problems
Looking at the different kinds of problems teams face.
2025 Year in Review
A look back at what happened in 2025
Building Team Flow Mapping
How I built the teamflowmapping app.
Decision Making as the Source of Problems
Expectating leaders to all be expert decision makers is the source of many problems.
Getting Started with Your Digital Garden
Learn the basics of maintaining a digital garden and how to use this template.
My Emacs Writing Setup
How I've configured emacs for the goal of writing
Kanban and Pulling Out Agility
December 2025
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November 2025
2 entriesStop Blaming Teams: See the System
Problems are typically predictable outcomes of flawed organizational systems and project structures
There's No One Right Way
Learn how to navigate the complexities of Agile practices and make informed decisions that balance trade-offs.
October 2025
3 entriesBetter Planning with Two-Sided Dependencies
Learn how to improve planning and reduce delays by managing dependencies effectively.
Navigating the AI Shift With the Wardley Doctrine
AI Transformations Are Hard-Agile
AI requires the same organizational agility, decentralized decisions, and cultural shift as Agile.
September 2025
2 entriesAugust 2025
5 entriesMaximize Productivity by Minimizing Context Switching
Transforming Agile Practices with the Kano Model
People Are the Heart of Any Practice
Unbundle the Value
From Big Bang Projects to Iterative and Incremental Development
July 2025
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September 2024
5 entriesBeyond Practices: Behaviours and Goals in Agile
Focus on behaviors like improvement and collaboration. Practices are secondary.
Achieving Agility Through Strong Mechanics
It's easy to copy the idea of what to do. It's much harder to actually do it.
The Hidden Costs of Over-Collaboration
Avoiding Agile Must-Dos
Agile means adaptability, not rigid practices; focus on outcomes over process compliance.
Making Progress Through Questions
August 2024
6 entriesStarting Agile With Retrospectives and Continuous Improvement
Drift to Waterfall
One-Time Efforts
9 Golden Rules for Agile Teams: Principles to Improve Collaboration
Some universally applicable guidance for Agile teams I've found helpful.
How Agile Coaches Can Empower Teams To Deal With Uncertainty
Avoiding the Practice Trap: Fostering Genuine Agility
Foster agility through mindful problem-solving, experimentation and continuous improvement.
July 2024
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August 2023
4 entriesMapping Options Using a Risk-Value Matrix
Experimenting With Controlling Cycle Time Instead of WIP
Don't Write User Stories, Tell Stories
The Power of Predictable Delivery
July 2023
4 entriesManage the Value, Not the Work
Avoiding The Pitfalls of Cross-Functional Super Teams
Cross-functional teams good, but avoid super teams; use enabling teams to reduce cognitive load.
An Agile Alternative to “Fixing”
Instead of applying one-time fixes, empower teams and manage constraints.
Where Are The Problems?
June 2023
1 entriesMay 2023
9 entriesWhy Work Waits
Running, Falling, and the Core of Agile
How I Use Scrum to Teach Agility
My Agile Sketching Experiment
Revisiting the Guidance on Cross-functional Teams
Miroverse Template: Squad Health Check
2021 Schulich MBA Agile Presentation
The slides and an overview of a 2021 talk I delivered to an MBA class about Agile
Making Change Where Change is Possible
Empowering Teams Instead of Telling Them What to Do
April 2023
2 entriesMarch 2023
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January 2023
1 entriesDecember 2022
3 entriesStarting a Wardley Map with a Mental Model Diagram
Capturing Customer Jobs Using a Mental Model Diagram
Learning Agile with ChatGPT
November 2022
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May 2013
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5 entriesFacebook Home
Real-time Brands
Ulysses 3
West Toronto CrossFit Featured on BlogTO
2013 CrossFit Open Recap
A recap of my performance and experience participating in the 2013 CrossFit Open
March 2013
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December 2012
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October 2012
16 entriesFacebook is Like a Chair… That Confuses and Surprises
A Quick Look at the Surface Site
A short critique of the Microsoft Surface website.
Social Media Without the Tweets and Check-ins
Success for the Mobile Context
The Social Story of a Brand
Mapping the Brand Story
Each Platform Has its Own Story
The Purpose of Each Platform
Use Stories to Affect Stories
How Customers Engage With a Brand's Story
Story Gets Us to Emotion
Customers Create Stories for Every Interaction
The Reason for Innovation
Basic Business Metrics
Research & Insights Into Stories
Stories and Understanding
September 2012
13 entriesMedia Tells Stories
Stories = Understanding the World
The Mobile Context
Story Makes it Relevant
The Social Context
App as Digital Proxy
A Network of People, Devices, and Things
Future Stories
The Evolution of Story
Digital Strategy
Digital Strategy & UX Strategy
A sketch depicting the difference between digital strategy and UX strategy.
User Experience Strategy
The Digital Strategy Process
August 2012
16 entriesiOS's Disposable Games
Paleo Mode
Twitter’s Inevitable Consistency
Four Platforms That Are Changing Writing
The Mac App Store’s future of irrelevance – Marco.org
iCloud Storage: Many Shallow Ponds
What's Next For The Mac?
Immersive Apps vs Immersive Content
From Searches to Apps to Siri
It Works Just Like Your Phone
The New Outlook.com
Designing A Better Email Client
Splitting the Social Network for the Best User Experience
The End of the PC Manufacturers
Uncovering the Compromises of Metro Style Apps
Putting Metro on iOS
July 2012
7 entriesAnalyzing The New Mac Ads
The Desktop Is Done, Think Like iOS
Designing Metro Apps on iOS
What Has Microsoft Learned From Metro?
The User Interfaces of CrossFit and Paleo
Understanding OmniFocus: Attention
RIM Honestly
June 2012
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May 2012
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1 entriesJanuary 2012
18 entriesNone
Clear from Realmac Software
It's All For Happiness
A Better Facebook Won't Help You
Brands Faking Human
None
Om Malik's 10 Years of Blogging
Gamification Must Be Addictive
A Brand Is Not Your Friend
Although brands can help fill a need and provide relief, they're not real; prioritize real people and quality products.
Shut Up and Take My Money!
Why Can The iPad Be Frustrating?
Making Media Easier
Email Declining
My Initial Experience With iCloud
Thought Process
Advice to Writers by Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut's 7 writing tips.
GameStore
2011 Accomplishments
My personal accomplishments in 2011
December 2011
3 entriesNovember 2011
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October 2011
1 entriesSeptember 2011
5 entriesAugust 2011
13 entriesWhich Platform Is For Creating?
The End of Failure
How the iPad Shattered The PC
My Problem With Anti-Social Networking
What Text Editors Tell us About Apple's Ecosystem
Where's The Innovation?
Give it Your Best Shot
Only The Hard Stuff Matters
Refining The Innovative And The New
Day One and Learning to Journal
Learning to Trash It and Start Over
Making Products Last
The New Air
July 2011
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May 2011
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March 2011
2 entriesFebruary 2011
5 entriesJanuary 2011
2 entriesDecember 2010
9 entriesA Recap of 2010
A short list of my accomplishments in 2010.
The Value of Tablet Huddle Experiences
F the File System
Get Into a Better Routine
Blogging to Push Ideas
How Evernote Made Remembering Everything Simple
Getting a Slight Idea
Reeder for Mac a Sign of Things to Come
Introducing BM Stack
November 2010
10 entriesMore Focused Writing With OmmWriter
The Importance of Work
Phones That Feel Like Magic
Diluting Brands in the World of Smartphones
Don't Let the Interruption Become Your Focus
Slap On Social
notepad table is a table that is also a notepad. WANT
The Newness and The Promise of Windows Phone 7
Innovating For a Windows Tablet
Going Nowhere Without Mobile
October 2010
2 entriesSeptember 2010
10 entriesAs Tumblr Changes From Platform To Network
Tumblr is evolving from simple blogging platform to social network.
Start Small
Gowalla
Models to Focus Your Thinking
What happens when all search becomes instant?
Ruthlessly Reveal
Searching for Focus | Ryerson Digital Media Zone
1 Window
Having only a single window open increases focus but creates discomfort; It takes practice.
Pomodoro Everything
Repeated Focus
August 2010
8 entriesAttention to Detail Versus Features
Apple's attention to detail wins compared to competitors' feature lists.
Your Ideas And Blogging the Crap Out of Them
Optimal Connections
Trying to Find the Smaller Conversations
When Identity and Blogs Don't Mix
Create Share Consume and Organize
Where I Learn I Suck at Reading, But That's OK
July 2010
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April 2010
4 entriesMarch 2010
3 entriesFebruary 2010
2 entriesJanuary 2010
5 entriesReal Virtual-Neighbours Are The Best Kind
Why Do Location Sharing?
Reblogging - Not So Much
Share Your Data
The Sandwich Rebuttal
December 2009
6 entriesChristmas Turkey!
Back. With Style No Less.
Ryerson's Digital Media Zone
Pomodoro Timer by Navel Labs
Notes from Gary V. at DemoCamp24
My First Contribution to TechVibes.com
November 2009
12 entriesCloud Factory - Blog - The Surprising Story of Simplenote
SimpleText for Mac client
Notes From Roger Martin on Design Thinking
The Death of The Boring Blog Post?
YouTube Direct
Makebelieve Help, Old Butchers, and Figuring Out Who You Are (For Now) | 43 Folders
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WriteRoom for iPhone 2.4 now in app store
The Logic Baffles Me
If I Had Asked
Readability2 – A Readability Mod
Bean: An OS X Word Processor
October 2009
12 entriesDriving my Elize in Forza 3
Notes from Gary Vaynerchuk at Rotmans
The rules for computing happiness
Why Do You Fan Companies on Facebook?
Search Ad Search Ad - Recursion Problem?
Adding Some Mint to Real-Time Search
JustNotes
Minimal Mac
Have I Not Explained It All Yet?
Being Obsessive Is Part of The Fun
Could Dropbox Do This? A Business Idea
Tumblr and Posterous In Every Possible Way
September 2009
8 entriesChatting About Event Overload In Toronto
Music made using only sounds from Windows 95 and 98
Pseudo Augmented Reality
My One Keyboard Struggle
Turn Anything Into a Social Something
An Introduction To The New Life-Streaming
The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy
Malcolm is...
August 2009
7 entriesLinux + Chrome + Flash
Chrome + CrunchBang Linux
Corporate Control of Social Media
Engagement and The Long Tail of Social Media Discussions
Social Being, Media Meaning
The Power of Framing Social Dialogue
Persistence and Momentum
July 2009
11 entriesMy Favourite Korean Dish
Rain in Roncesvalles
My Vibram FiveFingers
The System That Works
The Invisible Bridge
Sentiment Strikes Back
Teaser - Toronto Dev Interview 2
Blog More and Do Less
Sentiment Vs. Engagement in Online Listening
T Cafe
We Notice What We Choose To Notice
June 2009
8 entriesCurating
Speak Loudly
Ubuntu On Netbooks - NBR VS Keyboard Control With Gnome Do
Renewal
How Can I Improve My Blog For You?
Examining \"Share of Conversation\"
The Next Step For Net Geners
Colemak Keyboard - Still Better Than Dvorak?
May 2009
8 entriesCriticizing Your Friends is Hard
Creating Communities Through Experience Blogs
Listening to Two Conversations is Hard
If You Expect Them to Talk
A Risky Approach to Feedback
What I Want To Podcast
My Goal For The Summer? More Seesmic
At Odds
April 2009
10 entriesOpen Conversations Will Kill Your Company
A Great Storyteller
Storytelling is leadership tool.
Is It A Site? A Business? Or Mostly Just Twitter?
Why I Don't Like New Charities Every Month
Internal Micro Messaging Platforms Are Gold
The Reality Of The Crowds
The Crowds I Own
Twitter Style Redesigns And What They Share
Identity 2.0 - An Introduction to Identity On the Social Web
After The Digital Handshake, What Comes Next?
March 2009
8 entriesIs This How Brand Squatting Will Be Defeated?
Mind Map of Issues Surrounding Identity 2.0
New Job: Social Media Analyst at Blast Radius
6 Ways Learning Linux Can Help You in 2009
New Facebook, And Everyone Hates Malcolm
Getting More By Acting Early in Social Media
Are Brands Better Off When They Act Like Their Customers Online?
The Reason That Social Analytics Will Succeed Over Traditional
February 2009
17 entriesStop Being So Damned Shady On Twitter
Thinking About The Newsstand of The Future
Facebook, Fear, and The Risky Devide
How Creative Is Your Business Technology?
Investing In Yourself: A Practical Guide
Some DISQUS and Intense Debate Thoughts - They Both Need Work
Use Your Blog as a Notetaking Tool
GoodBye Tests And Quizes, Hello Comments
Students Are Faced With An Education Problem
Video Review of The Paradox Of Choice
Blogging: The Long Term Relationship
Languages Evolve, Twitter's Should Too
Social Networks as Trust Building Tools
Face it Linux, Most Netbooks Will Sell Windows 7
Creating A River of Web Media Content
Colemak Keyboard Layout - Better Than QWERTY, Better Than Dvorak
Recommended Wordpress Plugins For New Bloggers
January 2009
7 entriesCrunchBang Linux, Netbooks at High Speed
How Good Is the Asus Eee 1000?
Single In, Single Out
Take Your Learning To The Comments
The Real Limit Of Social Media
The York University Strike As A Great Opportunity
Social Media Is Not For You
December 2008
6 entriesWith Books Like These, Who Needs School?
Why You Might Be Using Linux in 2009
Watch Out - Great Looking Ubuntu Intrepid Apps
Cross Post - Announcing Toronto Dev
The Best Motivational Speakers Say "F*ck"
The Secret to Twitter Monetization Is...
November 2008
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October 2008
1 entriesSeptember 2008
6 entriesGetting Into The Mixx
In PostRank We Trust
3x3 Lessons From My Summer Reading Part 1
Lessons from my Summer reading, including: The Paradox of Choice, The Dip, and The Laws of Simplicity.
Why Laptops Will Replace Professors
Moving Towards A Self-Hosted Cloud
The Micro-Blogging Enabled Company
August 2008
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May 2008
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January 2008
1 entriesDecember 2007
3 entries4 More Ways to Get The Most Out of University
Four more ways to maximize university.
I've Won "How To Be a Rockstar Freelancer
5 Ways to Get The Most Out of University
Recommendations on maximizing the benefit you get from university.
November 2007
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October 2007
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August 2007
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