Stephen Mounsey

Rainbow of the day

Headline 'Scientists have discovered "third state" between life and death'.

Is it 'online training course'?

Thousands of BBC jobs at risk as broadcaster considers major outsourcing drive Exclusive: BBC understood to be speaking to US tech giants as it desperately seeks cost savings

With the customary pinch of salt that often needs to be sprinkled on these stories, outsourcing BBC tech capabilities to "tech giants" feels like a really, really, really bad idea www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...

Lego serious play innit #agilemanc

Now we have started

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Made it to #agilemanc

Ateliering

Programme 2025

Last chance to book for this coming week's Agile Manchester conference. 1&2 day tickets available: agilemanchester.net/programme-2025

DM me for a last minute discount code.

Tonight’s challenge. Babe. Daughter already skeptical and we haven’t started yet!

Keswick has a strong dog game

New favourite hobby. Trying to convince my children films are documentaries. Tonight’s challenge: Independence Day

Innovation

Rock, Paper, Scissors is Rock, Paper, Scissors not Scissors, Paper, Rock

New Game: Requires 2 children.

1. Get in car
2. Set timer for 20 minutes
3. Start driving
4. Each child in turn chooses the direction at the next junction or any turning of choice up until that point
5. Drive until timer is up
6. Find the nearest restaurant/shop/cafe
7. Buy your lunch
8. Eat

Displaying a graphic of how it's not just people with permanent needs that can benefit from inclusive design, there are also temporary and situational needs. For example, someone who's deaf, vs has an ear infection, vs in a loud bar The full list, with little characters representing each is: Touch: one arm, arm injury, new parent holding a baby See: Blind, Cataract, distracted driver Hear: Deaf, ear infection, bartender Speak: non-verbal, laryngitis, heavy accent (a picture of a Viking)

Accessibility doesn't only help a small group of people. Accessibility helps everyone

Lots of love coming your way Dan

Exploring team and service boundaries with User Needs Mapping — Team Topologies - Organizing for fast flow of value User Needs Mapping refers to the first four steps of the Wardley Mapping process that can provide significant value when helping understand users/customers, their needs and the dependencies required t...

See also User Needs Mapping (UNM) a technique that blends Wardley Mapping with TT:
teamtopologies.com/unm

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A copy of The Unaccountability Machine by Dan Davies

I know I’m late to this but it’s as good as everyone says. Favourite maxim: “Any system which is set up to maximise a single objective has the potential to go bonkers”.

A photograph of a danish road sign depicting an infographic of speed bumps and below it the word “Fartshumper”

I have heard it said that to live a rich life one should learn something new every day. Well I have been informed by my teenager that the Danish word for speed bump is Fartshumper and that the word for speed check is Fartkontrol. That’s two things.

How does an organization forget?

Massive away win for the little fella.

Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.

a man with curly hair and a beard looks at the camera with imgplay displayed in the corner ALT: a man with curly hair and a beard looks at the camera with imgplay displayed in the corner

What gif pops up when you type in your name

Not too bad! The order of arrival is sometimes a strong systemic dynamic at play. Good one to acknowledge with your team. #1,274,507!

Oooh exciting. I have just pre ordered a copy

It’s super beautiful around there. I was up Cader Idris just a few weeks ago! Enjoy

In case you wondered what a McDonalds salad looked like …..

Afraid I am not. I would very much love to catch up though

5 more submitted, fab idea Ian