Founder, entrepreneur, PM, dev. - Quality software starts with great requirements.

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Joined May 2018
Story Points are a proxy for ideal hours, even the guys who invented them say so (Ron Jeffries). They are subjective, abused and dangerous. I recommend estimation in hours for technical tasks and COSMIC function points for user recognisable functionality.
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This is concerning - from the departing head of Anthropic AI safety
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If project failure is predictable, what’s stopping us from predicting it? Software projects don’t just overrun, they often implode. Even after decades of Agile, AI, and APIs, the failure rate of large IT projects remains stubbornly high, which is an existential risk for many organisations. The Issue? Major programs still collapse under poor scope clarity and unrealistic optimism, costing $$$ in wasted effort and lost opportunity. Each failure isn’t just financial, it’s reputational. Lost trust, lost benefits, and lost time that can never be recovered. The Learning? Acknowledging our rich history of failures leads us to adopting systems that can prevent it. Enter Colin Hammond, Founder of @ScopeMaster_ Every board should treat software project risk as a strategic exposure, not an operational inconvenience. But with the right systems, we can avoid scope quality and sizing issues and transform outcomes. Projects don’t fail because people aren’t working hard enough. They fail because we don’t acknowledge the failures of the past and engage intelligent systems to prevent them. Don't wait until you can see the failure factors forming, steer clear before they have the opportunity to strike. 🎧Tune into Powering ProjeX Episode 28: "Colin Hammond: How Scope Master is Redefining Software Project Success" to explore how scoping, sizing, and governance can flip your odds of success. 🎧Listen to the Powering ProjeX podcast on: You Tube: youtu.be/YKPM48JNTWs Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4ouQGB… Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/au/podcas… 📬Engage with Powering ProjeX on: X: xitter.cf/PoweringProjeX Linked In: linkedin.com/company/powerin…
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In the latest episode of the Powering ProjeX podcast, I had the privilege of discussing AI-driven solutions for software project management with Colin Hammond, CEO of @ScopeMaster_ With over 30 years in IT, Colin highlighted how Scope Master utilizes natural language processing and the COSMIC functional sizing model to analyze requirements, detect ambiguities, and identify omissions early in the project lifecycle. This approach not only reduces rework by 20-50% but also enhances predictability in cost, schedule, and quality. For project managers facing scope creep and estimation challenges, tools like Scope Master offer a transformative path to success. Listen to the full episode here: You Tube: youtu.be/YKPM48JNTWs Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4ouQGB… Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/au/podcas… Engage with Powering ProjeX on: X: xitter.cf/PoweringProjeX Linked In: linkedin.com/company/powerin… Buy me a coffee at buymeacoffee.com/PoweringPro…
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Have some numbers
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A look at President Trump's new foray into cryptocurrency and the door it opens, critics say, to corruption on a massive scale. Keeping Them Honest.
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"This is arguably the biggest grift in modern history": Scott Galloway, host of "The Prof G Pod" and "Pivot" podcasts, weighs in on new questions about the Trump family's cryptocurrency ventures.
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Want to leverage #GenAI for SDLC requirement management? Here are the use cases and the tools radiostud.io/blog/artificial… @CustomGPT @ScopeMaster_ @chatprd #SoftwareDevelopment #SoftwareDeveloper #Software
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French senator perfectly describes the Trump situation.
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A guy shoots Trump in the head live at a rally “protected” by the Secret Service - No manifesto - No cell data - No texts - No emails - No interviews of parents - No footage of his home - No background - No accomplices This is the real cover-up
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I nearly cancelled my business credit card because there was a mysterious charge from cloud Lz73Pz DIGITAL GOODS - APPLICATIONS (EXLDG GAME An hour later...I wonder why Google hides their merchant name from the card transaction. Is it just to waste everyone's time?
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Harry Dry is the best copywriter I know. He's built a 130,000-person newsletter teaching people how to do it, and by the end of this interview, you'll be at least a Green Belt in copywriting. Some of his rules for writing: 1) A great sentence is a good sentence made shorter. 2) Writing great copy begins with having something to say in the first place. 3) Copy is like food. How it looks matters. 4) Since the look of copy matters so much, don't write copy in Google Docs. Write it in Figma (so you can write and design at the same time). 5) Kaplan's Law of Words: Any word that isn't working for you is working against you. 6) You know a paragraph is ready to ship when there's nothing left to remove. It's like a Jenga tower. The entire thing should collapse if you remove something. 7) Make a promise in the title so the reader knows exactly what they're going to get if they click. Then, deliver on the promise. 8) The three laws of copywriting: (1) Make it concrete, (2) make it visual, and (3) make it falsifiable. 9) Make it concrete: Don't be abstract. For an example, say you're writing about habits. Don't talk about "productive routines." That's abstract. Write about "waking up at 6am to write" instead. It's concrete — and much more vibrant. 10) Make it visual: People see in pictures. This is why instead of memorizing card numbers directly, world memory champions memorize cards by turning them into pictures and then back to cards. 11) Make it falsifiable: When you write a sentence that's true or false, you put your head on the chopping block, which makes people sit up in their seat. 12) When has a falsifiable statement resonated? Galileo got sentenced to a decade of house arrest for saying that the earth spins around the sun. That's a falsifiable sentence. But nobody would've done anything if he'd said that the earth has a harmonious connection with a celestial object. 13) Write with the delete key. Using fewer words lets you be more impactful with the words you keep. 14) The job of a sales page is to make a bold claim at the top. Then spend the rest of the page backing up what you've said... with a ridiculous amount of proof. 15) If your competitor could've written the sentence, cut it. 16) Good copy is differentiated. Here's an example: Elon Musk shouldn't write "The Cybertruck is the world's best truck." Ford or Dodge can write that sentence. But only Elon can write: "The Cybertruck is tougher than an F-150 and faster than a Porsche." 17) Some days, the writing comes easily. Some days, it takes sweat. The reader doesn't care if you wrote for two minutes, two hours, or two days. The ink looks the same. 18) Great copy reads like your customer wrote it. Talk to them. That's just an introduction to the copywriting philosophy of @harrydry. I've shared the full interview below. I recommend you watch this one because we pull from so many visual references and do a lot of screen sharing. If you'd rather watch on YouTube, I've shared the link in the reply tweets.
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I've listened to about 35 minutes of testimony of Gareth Jenkins and neither Quality nor Quality Management have yet been mentioned. Who was responsible for managing quality? #PostOfficeInquiry
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We use Moz.com for checking SEF of our web site. We all know that outbound deadlinks are harmful. I was disappointed to discover recently that Moz doesn't check for outbound links, nor do they warn you that they don't, nor do they plan to do so. #MOZ
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I’ve concluded that I don’t need to correct all the untruths I read on twitter, it so liberating
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I have been working recently with a docker expert to containerize our Saas application for deployment as a standalone product. It has reminded me that competent people working together with a clear goal can achieve great things fast.
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