I've been joining teams for the past couple years providing Scrum coaching and technical leadership as appropriate, as it happens to a wide array of the blue chips in Australia. Dysfunction under any methodology is still dysfunction, and I've seen Scrum completely dysfunctional, and chaos surprisingly effective. It's important to distinguish Scrum from Agile: Agile in short is about feedback, with the primary purpose of surfacing problems early; there is no standup in Agile. Scrum on the other hand centers on a strongly-defined definition of done, and how to get there. I realize the standup may smell like micro-management and I've seen it terribly misused. The actual point of standup isn't the ritual; it's the preparation. When you know you have to have a standup, you quickly realize that any impediments should be addressed now, not tomorrow at 10. If a standup takes more than 3.5 minutes you're seriously doing it wrong. It's similar to code reviews, which are a pillar of DOD: the code review doesn't improve your work, it's the mental process of preparing for a code review which achieves that. The one thing that Scrum and Agile have in strong alignment is the concept of the value proposition: delivered (done) software is the only measure of where the team is.
There is a strong sentiment commonly voiced around larger units of work which may not fit within a sprint. (Incidentally, I hate the two-week sprint: It's too short to get to Done. Depending on the team, three or four weeks works better.) A pillar of Scrum is about the "potentially shippable unit of work" which in most cases is very effective. In all seriousness, if you deliver a sedan to the customer on schedule this quarter and upgrade it with a performance package again on schedule next quarter, but don't quite get to the chrome finishings, everybody's happy. But if you try to schedule a Ferrari in six months and it won't start, and it takes a year to wind up delivering a sedan, nobody's happy. Scrum is about keeping the software in a continuously shippable state, and that concept is here to stay.
You're flatly wrong on both points. Locked cabin doors led to a French plane being flown into a mountainside. And 89 people lined up to be executed at a French concert did absolutely nothing.
Wait -- how many skyscrapers have been collapsed by hijacked planes in the past 14 years? Say what you want, but al qaeda has been seriously diminished to the point of no longer being newsworthy. I for one welcome our new Patriot Act overlords.
I've never compromised myself to the point of being polygraphed, but a relative, a friend of his, and a friend of mine made off with a small fortune in total, and were polygraphed, and all passed. This is conjecture, but they had the quality of feeling superior to the companies they were bilking, so weren't ambivalent in the slightest as to what they were actually doing. If you feel morally justified for speeding, you may very well pass a polygraph around have you ever speeded.
I'm *51*, and I've been around since before C++ existed.
I wouldn't trade angularjs for jquery ever. Nor jquery via nuget vs. npm. Nor Typescript for pure javascript. Nor DbContext for SqlConnection.
I can go on for pages. As a consultant I drop into numerous client sites, some of which are very current, and some of which are staffed by dinosaurs headed to extinction. Source code as a living document must evolve or die the horrible death of design dead. Of course there are fads, but ripping out spaghetti and replacing it with expressive sources of 1/10 the complexity and 110% of the functionality is pure joy.
In the consultancy I work within, two platforms are most common: Macbook Pros and Surface Pros. There are a smattering of relative dinosaurs hauling around 2.8kg Dells or Thinkpads, but the lighter form factors are absolutely relevant in this space, which does require good grunt running a development platform. I'm still using my Thinkpad because even at 2.5 years of age it has plenty of dev grunt, but I refreshed into a Surface Pro which in most ways is faster, and when docked it's a delight to work with. I went with SP because it's like a grand less than a MBP and I prefer a tablet with a standard okay detachable keyboard to the MBP's keyboard of just wrong (don't smack me, I worked with one for two months and never stopped hating its keyboard). My SP I can slip into a small bag and take to presentations or do small engagements, or I can pack the dock and accessories into a backpack. At 16gb and 512gb RAM and SD, it's plenty for even the big iron engagements I've done in the past few years.
lol am I supposed to be impressed by an unreferenced hive comment? I can link to any number of nutjobs on both sides of any debate too. Will you be impressed by that as much as you're impressed by the hive comment you've linked?
Nukes from day one have been designed to only detonate after a specific series of human and environmental interactions. A non-activated nuke is dirty, but it's never going to explode.
Outside many private schools in Australia are signs saying don't take pictures of our cherubs. Or what exactly? I see the signs generally after hours, otherwise I might take a selfie of myself "thinking about it" with the sign behind me, and then take pictures of vicious Sydney Lord of the Flies aspirants at their fucking worst. If the LOTF reference in the context of Sydney schools doesn't resonate, the Sydney school system is an order of magnitude more vicious than the inner city ghetto schools I went to in the US from Y5 through Y12. "Keep your feet mate" as advice for a fist fight is what these kids are taught from age *SEVEN*, which I know from direct observation.
Getting the lost spot in a disaster shelter will work about as well as bribing yourself onto a lifeboat on the Titanic. Only a bigger gun wins when the shit hits the fan.
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I've been joining teams for the past couple years providing Scrum coaching and technical leadership as appropriate, as it happens to a wide array of the blue chips in Australia. Dysfunction under any methodology is still dysfunction, and I've seen Scrum completely dysfunctional, and chaos surprisingly effective. It's important to distinguish Scrum from Agile: Agile in short is about feedback, with the primary purpose of surfacing problems early; there is no standup in Agile. Scrum on the other hand centers on a strongly-defined definition of done, and how to get there. I realize the standup may smell like micro-management and I've seen it terribly misused. The actual point of standup isn't the ritual; it's the preparation. When you know you have to have a standup, you quickly realize that any impediments should be addressed now, not tomorrow at 10. If a standup takes more than 3.5 minutes you're seriously doing it wrong. It's similar to code reviews, which are a pillar of DOD: the code review doesn't improve your work, it's the mental process of preparing for a code review which achieves that. The one thing that Scrum and Agile have in strong alignment is the concept of the value proposition: delivered (done) software is the only measure of where the team is.
There is a strong sentiment commonly voiced around larger units of work which may not fit within a sprint. (Incidentally, I hate the two-week sprint: It's too short to get to Done. Depending on the team, three or four weeks works better.) A pillar of Scrum is about the "potentially shippable unit of work" which in most cases is very effective. In all seriousness, if you deliver a sedan to the customer on schedule this quarter and upgrade it with a performance package again on schedule next quarter, but don't quite get to the chrome finishings, everybody's happy. But if you try to schedule a Ferrari in six months and it won't start, and it takes a year to wind up delivering a sedan, nobody's happy. Scrum is about keeping the software in a continuously shippable state, and that concept is here to stay.
You're flatly wrong on both points. Locked cabin doors led to a French plane being flown into a mountainside. And 89 people lined up to be executed at a French concert did absolutely nothing.
Wait -- how many skyscrapers have been collapsed by hijacked planes in the past 14 years? Say what you want, but al qaeda has been seriously diminished to the point of no longer being newsworthy. I for one welcome our new Patriot Act overlords.
I've never compromised myself to the point of being polygraphed, but a relative, a friend of his, and a friend of mine made off with a small fortune in total, and were polygraphed, and all passed. This is conjecture, but they had the quality of feeling superior to the companies they were bilking, so weren't ambivalent in the slightest as to what they were actually doing. If you feel morally justified for speeding, you may very well pass a polygraph around have you ever speeded.
Unfortunately I have to guess as the article doesn't appear to say what the outcome was.
Offended much? lol
How about 100 meters off the coast and see if God chooses to save them.
AFAIK: IIRC
IIRC: AFAIK
I'm *51*, and I've been around since before C++ existed.
I wouldn't trade angularjs for jquery ever.
Nor jquery via nuget vs. npm.
Nor Typescript for pure javascript.
Nor DbContext for SqlConnection.
I can go on for pages. As a consultant I drop into numerous client sites, some of which are very current, and some of which are staffed by dinosaurs headed to extinction. Source code as a living document must evolve or die the horrible death of design dead. Of course there are fads, but ripping out spaghetti and replacing it with expressive sources of 1/10 the complexity and 110% of the functionality is pure joy.
In the consultancy I work within, two platforms are most common: Macbook Pros and Surface Pros. There are a smattering of relative dinosaurs hauling around 2.8kg Dells or Thinkpads, but the lighter form factors are absolutely relevant in this space, which does require good grunt running a development platform. I'm still using my Thinkpad because even at 2.5 years of age it has plenty of dev grunt, but I refreshed into a Surface Pro which in most ways is faster, and when docked it's a delight to work with. I went with SP because it's like a grand less than a MBP and I prefer a tablet with a standard okay detachable keyboard to the MBP's keyboard of just wrong (don't smack me, I worked with one for two months and never stopped hating its keyboard). My SP I can slip into a small bag and take to presentations or do small engagements, or I can pack the dock and accessories into a backpack. At 16gb and 512gb RAM and SD, it's plenty for even the big iron engagements I've done in the past few years.
I like this. With the exception of Tesla, pushing anything through the resistance of air tends to look like lightning with all of the downsides.
withIN moron. withIN. Spell check is the new fail of first world problems.
In other words, at worst, a dirty bomb. My money is on not anything remotely like Hiroshima or Nagasaki.
lol am I supposed to be impressed by an unreferenced hive comment? I can link to any number of nutjobs on both sides of any debate too. Will you be impressed by that as much as you're impressed by the hive comment you've linked?
Nukes from day one have been designed to only detonate after a specific series of human and environmental interactions. A non-activated nuke is dirty, but it's never going to explode.
Outside many private schools in Australia are signs saying don't take pictures of our cherubs. Or what exactly? I see the signs generally after hours, otherwise I might take a selfie of myself "thinking about it" with the sign behind me, and then take pictures of vicious Sydney Lord of the Flies aspirants at their fucking worst. If the LOTF reference in the context of Sydney schools doesn't resonate, the Sydney school system is an order of magnitude more vicious than the inner city ghetto schools I went to in the US from Y5 through Y12. "Keep your feet mate" as advice for a fist fight is what these kids are taught from age *SEVEN*, which I know from direct observation.
For decades we've sworn we buy it just for the articles. Sales may actually improve with the last wives objection gone.
Because it's a failed concept when design dead means anything to anyone writing a check? Seriously, skill up or um... don't.
Getting the lost spot in a disaster shelter will work about as well as bribing yourself onto a lifeboat on the Titanic. Only a bigger gun wins when the shit hits the fan.
C++ for content filtering? Are you serious?
Does that mean I should remove https://github.com/letsgetrand... from my codebase now?
This isn't even coherent. What?
Fiat currencIES maybe? Proofreading before post is a necessary skill.
Bean?
What the fuck is pre-emptily? It doesn't even shot up in urban dictionaries. Put your fucking i-phone down and learn to fucking type.