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Bristol Skillswap: User Experience

edmittance — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:49:51 +0000

The next Bristol Skillswap is about user experience, and is in The Pervasive Media Studio on Tuesday 11th November. As well as our very own Joe (the uncle of usability) Leech, we have some experts from further afield as the gig is partnered in with Dan Dixon and Alex Older’s Web Developers Conference.

Here’s the blurb:

Bristol’s latest Skillswap considering the ins and outs of user experience, usability and accessibility.

Welcomed guest speakers to frame the subject on the night are:

Patrick Lauke
James Box
Joe Leech

Following their three position pieces, our very own venerable Skillswap members (that’s you by the way) will be discussing, sharing, learning, debating, drinking and more in another rollicking Bristol styled networked DIY learning session.

Skillswap report on project management

edmittance — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:07:13 +0000

(thanks for the space, Pervasive Media Studio!)

We had some good talks and discussion around the topic of ‘Project Management’ at last week’s Skillswap:

Joe Leech talked about being a small cog in many bigger systems: Presentation
Laura Francis talked about how she uses Agile
Fraser Stephens discussed the ‘what to’s of Prince2: Presentation
Eben Halford talked about Scrum: Presentation

Peter Ferne and the Jiva crew produced plenty of free drink and snacks; thanks all!

Thanks for the excellent space, and good work to all attendees.

skillswap project management

edmittance — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:39:48 +0000

Joe Leech and I are convening March’s Skillswap in the Pervasive Media Lab. It’s called ‘Project manage this!’, and is about project management. I was a project manager once; there wasn’t enough human in it for me and way too much detail, but I remain deeply impressed by a good intelligent emotionally sensitive (but not wiffling) project manager.

We’ve got a good range of PM types to kick off conversations, and, as usual, attendees are expected to bring their brains, experiences and other stuff like that. Huge thanks to the Pervasive Media lab crew for the venue.

Here details:

Bristol Skillswap: Wednesday 19 March 2008
Title: Project manage this!
What: Project Management tips and tricks
Who: Joe Leech, Laura Francis, Fraser Stephens (and more)
What’s happening:
Our three presenters will stand up and give us some background and stories from their experience with project management tools and stuff like that in different sectors. Then we will talk about it.

Group page with information on it