English: The logo of wordcamp.org

English: The logo of wordcamp.org (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

WordCamp Toronto 2013 will be taking place this fall at a yet-to-be-disclosed location somewhere in the city. Previously, I worked with Al Davis and Craig Taylor to organize WordCamp Toronto 2011 (which was really an oh-crap-let’s-get-this-done moment), WordCamp Toronto 2012 (for users), and WordCamp Toronto: Developers 2012 (for code geeks).

A number of changes will be happening to WordCamp Toronto this year.

First, and most importantly, is our all-new organization team (myself excluded).

And possibly a few more organizers to come.

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Prioritizing Goals

April 5, 2013 — Leave a comment
English: This poster provides a good visual of...

English: This poster provides a good visual of the standard Agile Software Development methodology. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Over the last few days I’ve been thinking more about how the principles of agile software development can be applied to other kinds of web projects. This could be websites, marketing campaigns, training sessions, whatever.

I’m learning a lot of this on the fly, but there are things I’d like to start applying as quickly a possible. Specifically, how can we adopt something likeĀ requirements modeling to effectively set expectations in a small-business scenario, and what are the benefits? Are there techniques, like usage modeling, that can be folded into the sales process?

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WPToronto.com Beta

April 1, 2013 — Leave a comment

Praise the heavens, WPToronto.com is now online!

It’s a far cry from the big vision I had when it was first announced last fall, but at least it’s a first step – and better than nothing.

I’ll be manually populating the business listings over the next few weeks as we head into prime WordCamp season.