pjbster

12 ms·

61.
by pjbster 8y ago
Sometimes - heck, perhaps most times - when Scrum is involved, some organisations are just too fscked to save. Over time, the "leadership" have reacted to market forces by imposing variations on processes, cuts, reorgs and redunda
62.
by pjbster 9y ago
One fun experiment would be for a company to place all it's middle managers on gardening leave. For a year. Give them the same ability to influence as that of a very minority shareholder (i.e. none). Then see how the bottom line fares.
63.
by pjbster 9y ago
Sticking around and believing that they're essential. When organisations are formed of people with perfectly aligned incentives, they don't need to be managed. Such people know what needs to be done and have the expertise and auto
64.
by pjbster 9y ago
For those interested in DEC history, HP have put the text of their Digital Technical Journal articles online at http://www.hpl.hp.com/hpjournal/dtj/past.htm (no figures, alas). Volume 4 issue 4 introduced the Alph
65.
by pjbster 9y ago
My level of support for the EU is neither here or there but I do get really irate when my country's PM presumes to act according to "the will of the people". We simply don't really know whether that's true or not an
66.
by pjbster 9y ago
Yes. Or they could have said that a certain number of votes would be required (equal to 50% of the electorate). So, even if only 51% turned out, the result would stand if 98% of them voted to leave.
67.
by pjbster 9y ago
I'm generally not in favour of mandatory voting either but I do think one way of moving forward with Brexit would be to demand a vote from those who didn't turn out for the referendum. When the direction of a nation has been decid
68.
by pjbster 9y ago
As with so many of these kinds of articles, it skips talking about what they don't eat: sugared drinks, refined carbs, industrially refined oils, factory farmed animal products, etc. etc. Living healthily is really, really simple: if
69.
by pjbster 9y ago
Just decide to do it. You'll work it out. You already know what you need to know - sugar is bad and if it comes in a package it's almost certainly unnatural. Take a look at http://www.marksdailyapple.com/ If there
70.
by pjbster 9y ago
I think some organisations have deeper problems [than developer communication] which SCRUM and Agile are simply not equipped to cope with. Here’s one example: * Moving functionality from a legacy^2 to legacy (mainframe to client-server) * T
71.
by pjbster 9y ago
It's more than a loss of time - there's also the context switch and attendant energy expenditure to restore the "head space" after escaping the meeting. If the discussion can add more value than those costs, then go for
72.
by pjbster 9y ago
Case in point: the traffic lights at the bottom of Ludgate Hill were out this morning so cars and bicyles had to negotiate the intersection without any form of communication or signalling. Nobody died.
73.
by pjbster 10y ago
Thanks for that. It's convinced me to find a new route home :-)
74.
by pjbster 10y ago
I walked along Marylebone Road last night (6:30 pm) and experienced the traffic fumes first-hand. Truly awful. The most alarming thing is that this is the route I normally cycle along and I've never noticed the pollution in this way be
75.
by pjbster 10y ago
Thank you. I feel suitably enlightened :-)
76.
by pjbster 10y ago
To avoid having to explain themselves, some IT execs simply outsource their imaginations and adopt ITIL. It's not hard to find a variety of diagrams purporting to illustrate how the myriad management functions in ITIL fit together. You
77.
by pjbster 10y ago
Aside: where on the scale of U.S. epithets would the term "wanker" fall? Would "cock-sucker" be about right? (I got asked this very question by an American relation a few years back.)
78.
by pjbster 10y ago
What also helped was the better communication that came with this team structure. Artists and developers weren’t seated across the hall or on different floors. The team sat together which meant that developers were seated right next to art
79.
by pjbster 10y ago
"We now have the technology to destroy the planet on which we live, but have not yet developed the ability to escape it." Interesting choice of word: "escape". Not: "fix".
80.
by pjbster 10y ago
You know, it's strange: when I worked for an insurance IT dept. we were informed that strict adherence to an ITIL-certified release process was essential to keep us "within compliance with FSA regulations - we need to do this in o
81.
by pjbster 10y ago
Have you considered getting by without a budgeting app? I used to go through exactly this sort of mental exercise that evaluating and selecting the perfect personal finance app would bring. It's like I could solve my financial problems
82.
by pjbster 10y ago
One aspect of safety which wasn't mentioned in the article is the moment when lights turn green and cars and bikes begin to move forward. There's a noticeable tendency for some riders to want to stay in front of the cars and this
83.
by pjbster 10y ago
Turns out it was only a proposal which was never tried after all: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/oct/27/cyclists-run-... Johnson and Transport for London requested permission for a trial back i
84.
by pjbster 10y ago
I seem to remember a trial which was piloted in London (UK) a few years back which permitted a cyclist to go through a red light if turning left. Can anyone shed any light on how this worked out?
85.
by pjbster 10y ago
After working in Scrum for over a year, I find myself in violent agreement with every point in the article. For me, Scrum has always been nothing more than an “Agile Bootstrap”. The core idea within it is very simple: try something and exam
86.
by pjbster 10y ago
I dabbled with feature flags once. We had... issues.. with our DBAs who, it seemed, couldn't make any changes to a database without taking it offline for a cold backup first. We floated the idea of feature flags as one way to perform c
87.
by pjbster 10y ago
I, too, dev and maintain Oracle systems with BL implemented in SPs. Most of the time, the code I work with operates on a handful of records per transaction; bulk operations require entirely different tradeoffs and I don't have much to
88.
by pjbster 10y ago
And here's some SQLite perspective: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4616548