Sarah

Project Manager
I joined Caplin systems early 2008 as Product Owner of Caplin Trader. I now work in Professional Services where I am very lucky to follow my passion of continuous improvement. Recent interests: Kanban, Persona Driven Development, Failing Fast and driving value.
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Events
21 May 2010
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SPA 2010 – PDD & other interesting stuff

A big thank you to all the attendees of our Persona Driven Development (PDD) workshop at SPA 2010.  This was the first ever external lead session of ours and what a great conference for Duncan and I to debut at.  We thank you all for your energy in the session…

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Agile, Coding
28 Apr 2010
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Kanban exposes documentation bottlenecks

Back in November I blogged about our company trialing Kanban, “Let’s all jump on the Kanban” which we have now extended to our Documentation Team – something described by David Joyce as BBC Kanban Flu. We kind of knew what was really delaying the release of documentation but it’s not…

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UX
28 Jan 2010
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Ignoring UX could cost you

This is why it’s all about the UX and not the UI.  Those in the business of developing front-end trading applications – take note. You have got to look beyond the graphics and explore the interaction while thinking about avoiding those “fat finger” moments… http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2010/01/how-a-stray-mouse-click-choked-the-nyse-cost-a-bank-150k.ars Here at Caplin we are passionate…

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Agile
20 Nov 2009
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Let’s all jump on the Kanban

We have been using agile methods – a typical mix of Scrum and XP – for some years now at Caplin. Though all of us have had some level of formal training and many years of experience in agile techniques, I have observed a couple of drawbacks with the Scrum…

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