What is this blog?

Those of you who have happened upon this blog for the first time may be wondering what it is.

Three weeks ago, I took over as CTO of MoveMe.com (a London-based start-up). I am committed to agile development practices and amongst the changes I am bringing to the development team are two practices that deliberately place the value of knowledge at the heart of the team:

1. Weekly, voluntary, brown bag lunch sessions (alternating between presentations and Coding Dojo’s)
2. A Knowledge Nugget at the Daily Stand-Up

The rules for the Knowledge Nugget are simple:

• The nugget must be written (legibly) on one side of an index card.
• At the end of the Stand-Up, the nugget is simply read out by the author
• No questions about the nugget inside the Stand-Up (to avoid wasting time)
• When the nugget has been read, someone volunteers to do the next nugget (they do not need to say what it is about)
• The index card is placed in team view until the next nugget is done (pinned to a board, or blue-tacked on the wall)

On top of this, I decided to blog the nuggets for posterity :-)