Adrian Smith

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Agile and Lean for Construction

Large scale construction projects suffer from cost and time overruns that are typically a symptom of productivity problems and directly affect overall industry profitability. As a result, methodologies have been developed to reduce the risk of overruns and improve project outcomes.

STANZ 2011 – Future Tester

Craig Smith and I be presented at STANZ 2011 on The Future Tester at Suncorp: A Journey of Building Quality In Through Agile in Melbourne, Australia. Our presentation was based around work that we have been doing at Suncorp to improve testing capability, skills and approaches. We also included some of the work we’ve done [...]

Agile 2011 – Building Quality In

Craig Smith and I presented a session called Accelerating the Speed To Cool On The Road To Building Quality In at Agile2011 in Salt Lake City. The talk was based around work that we have been doing at Suncorp to improve testing capability, skills and approaches. We also included some of the work we’ve done [...]

Tag Clouds With Wordle

A while ago I wrote some code to generate tag clouds from a set of words – mainly for fun. But I have just discovered Wordle. From their web site … Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently [...]