My learning

Done. No, really this time.

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Well, the saga of the 1989/90 FZR600 is over. Like, I’m seriously done with it. Countless hours, far more dollars than I’ll ever see again, many tears of frustration spilled on the shed floor, but it’s done. The rebuild the second time around was far less stressful. A big part of this was getting the … Read more

Not done

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Well.

Eighteen months is a long time, particularly when that time includes COVID-19, a change in jobs and a whole lot of change in the bike space, including the realisation that Project FZR is indeed not done.

Or at least the main Project FZR.

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Deconstruction

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In my last post I came to the sobering realisation that to get to the mystery blockage I would need to strip down the entire engine. This wasn’t the absolute first time I had done this. I remember the last time, it was 1990, I was eighteen, the vehicle was a Datsun 180B, and I … Read more

Using Agile tools to eat the elephant

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It was during this period of just scooting around on the FZR that I realised that I needed to do a couple of things differently. First up, I needed to accept that this restoration project was rapidly turning into a ‘down the rabbit hole’ experience, as I’d heard can happen with restoration projects. A flow-on … Read more

Launching the Digital Workplace (and where to from here)

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I’ve written a few times about the Digital Workplace project that I’ve been the Product Owner for this year, and it gave me great pleasure to be part of the launch team this week as we rolled out the first phase of our ‘product’ – Trello. But when the tool you’re launching is already freely available, and you know that plenty of people have already started using it, then what exactly is there to launch?

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