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Story Points are not enough

Story Points are not enough

Your team has two stories to consider for next sprint. One involves supporting a new input source. What is needed to be done is pretty clear. Create the schema. Create the input API. Create the ETL. Test, document, and deploy. There is work to do, but it’s well understood work. […]

Save the Serifs

Save the Serifs

Warning, this post is going to be about one of the most boring topics possible, font choice. The Washington Post reports the State Department has ordered a shift in font choice from Times New Roman to Calibri. The justification is that a serif font like Times New Roman (serifs are […]

Will Twitter Fail?

With recent management changes it seems a lot of employees have left the bird app. Turns out if you give people a choice between working long hours with little to no vision or three months severance pay, most people will take the pay. Employers often overestimate how much their employees […]

Working From Home

Working From Home

Over the past year, for many of us “WFH” has gone from a luxury to a temporary inconvenience to a running gag on the year 2020 to a possibly permanent lifestyle. I thought I’d share a few tips that have helped me in this new Zoom dominated office. Video Scrum […]

Step Away From The Clipboard

Step Away From The Clipboard

We’ve all done it.  And we’ve almost all regretted doing it.  So its time to talk about an uncomfortable subject for many. Copying and pasting code. The temptation is constantly there.  You see some code here that works (or at least appears to work).  You obviously don’t want to reinvent […]