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You might be surprised to learn that by analysing data from Australian Bureau of Statistics that while the increase in migration year on year is just 0.7% between 2020-2024, between the years from 2016-2020, a period of successive Liberal governments, the increase in migration was 1.4% each year. 2016-2020 was entirely Liberal governments = migration increasing  1.4% each year 2020-2024 is split about 50/50 Liberal/Labor governments =  migration increasing  0.7 % each year How this was calculated The data analysis was not complicated.  I began by downloading the last 34 quarters (8 years) of data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics  (2) . The average migration from March 2016 - March 2022 was 240k per-quarter The average migration from March 2022 - June 2024 was 247k per-quarter The difference between period A and B is under + 7k per-quarter, or a 2.8% increase over 4 years In annual terms that is a net increase in migration of 0.7% ea...

This post is a little different for me. I usually blog about modern ways of running teams. Today I'm going back many years and writing something with my Applied Biology hat on my head. My motivation for this post is a recent discussion with a school friend on WhatsApp. He would describe himself as an open-minded sceptic. Having spent many days reading his "copy & paste" arguments, I began to think he's delusional and single-minded. Below I'm going to run some of the threads we went down, and the more I type, the more I think about Agile detractors, all of whom are convinced they are doing fine as they are. First, where do I stand, and what's the theory? My stance is aligned with popular thinking and has not changed since Christmas 2019 when I heard about a new virus transmitted between humans. I don't follow too much media, and practically everything I type below is my opinions formed from my undergraduate study of Applied Biology and my eight years wo...

This topic is a passion of mine and the conclusions I draw in this post are after over 20 years and working on perhaps hundreds of projects, some hugely successful, some, overpriced and woefully poor. There are a lot of ground rules I am confident are so solid that I can see red flags within minutes of evaluating any initiative that I think is missing the core characteristic of success. This post is just going to look at one of these, and that is how deliverables are defined. Because anyone who thinks a product is just one big thing is holding a red flag. To explore this I am going to simplify 1 successful product.   The Internet I'm not sure there is any product more successful, I'd certainly like to hear one if you can think of one. Now, let's imagine that we were given the story card for The Internet. As a user, I want to transmit (send and receive) text and images between computers in different locations.    Before I go into how this product was init...