Microsoft Regional Director | Scrum Master | Speaker
Adam Cogan Chinafy china, coffee, luckin, starbucks 3 Comments
There’s a new coffee shop chain in China, called Luckin Coffee, and it’s been fascinating to watch their rise in the local market. I know from my own observations that the Chinese in the big cities love their coffee. I’m aware the current stats on coffee consumption per nation says that the average
Adam Cogan Angular, SSW Rules Angular, Rules to Better Angular, SSW Rules 0 Comments
Angular is everywhere. Angular devs are cool! Angular and React have been the 2 dominant front-end technologies for the last few years. We have been running our Angular Superpowers course that entire time, and I’m still amazed that every time we run the course, we sell out. It’s amazing because Java
Adam Cogan General, NDC Sydney Conference, NDC Sydney 0 Comments
September has come and gone and NDC Sydney is over. SSW was a large part of this great conference, which is personally my favourite event of the year. Of course, I love going to NDC Oslo, but there’s nothing like having the Norwegians come to your home town. This was the 3rd annual Sydney event and
Adam Cogan SSW Rules consulting, rules, teamwork 0 Comments
I’m often asked advice on what makes a good software consultant. Hang on a tick before I get to that. Software exists to solve problems and make our lives easier – but any software consultant can tell you that creating software can come with problems of its own. The 2 big ones are: Software is
Adam Cogan skin cancer personal 4 Comments
Australia has the highest rate of skin cancer in the world – it’s our #1 most common type of cancer. According to the Australian Cancer Council, 2 in 3 Aussies will have been diagnosed with skin cancer by the time they’re 70. As a kid, a lot of my older relatives had skin cancers cut
Adam Cogan Employment Employment, Relationship management, SugarLearning 0 Comments
I’ve come up with a list of “hello” and “goodbye” tips to help employees with the start and end of their journey with an employer. I believe that these tasks are simple for employees to follow and can minimise stress.
Adam Cogan Azure Azure Services 2 Comments
Right now Microsoft lists more than 600 Azure services, and the volume of choice can feel overwhelming. To help you out, I’ve narrowed down a list of my top 9 Azure services you should be using:
Adam Cogan SharePoint Office 365, SharePoint Online 0 Comments
SharePoint Online is a mature product capable, and now that it leverages the O365 stack, there is no better platform to build an engaging intranet. We can migrate you from any version to SharePoint Online
Adam Cogan General, Non-SSW projects Brian Harry 0 Comments
Brian Harry has been integral to Microsoft for a very long time. He created VSS (Visual Source Safe) and was one of the core members who invented .NET. He then invented TFS and then moved to become one of Microsoft’s first cloud services for developers.
Adam Cogan Chinafy, SSW China 1 Comment
China represents a huge opportunity for Western businesses, with the world’s largest internet population (751 million users), rising incomes, rapidly changing demographics and spending habits, and the world’s largest online retail events. The opportunity to gain market share in China is exciting, bu