Scrum is a cancer. I've been writing software for 25 years, and nothing renders a software team useless like Scrum does. Some anecdotes: 1. They tried to convince me that Poker is a planning tool, not a game. 2. If you want to be more efficient, you must add process, not remove it. They had us attending the "ceremonies," a fancy name for a buttload of meetings: stand-ups, groomings, planning, retrospectives, and Scrum of Scrums. We spent more time talking than doing. 3. We prohibited laptops in meetings. We had to stand. We passed a ball around to keep everyone paying attention. 4. We spent more time estimating story points than writing software. Story points measure complexity, not time, but we had to decide how many story points fit in a sprint. 5. I had to use t-shirt sizes to estimate software. 6. We measured how much it cost to deliver one story point and then wrote contracts where clients paid for a package of "500 story points." 7. Management lost it when they found that 500 story points in one project weren't the same as 500 story points on another project. We had many meetings to fix this. 8. Imagine having a manager, a scrum master, a product owner, and a tech lead. You had to answer to all of them and none simultaneously. 9. We paid people who told us whether we were "burning down points" fast enough. Weren't story points about complexity instead of time? Never mind. I believe in Agile, but this ain't agile. We brought professional Scrum trainers. We paid people from our team to get certified. We tried Scrum this way and that other way. We spent years doing it. The result was always the same: It didn't work. Scrum is a cancer that will eat your development team. Scrum is not for developers; it's another tool for managers to feel they are in control. But the best about Scrum are those who look you in the eye and tell you: "If it doesn't work for you, you are doing it wrong. Scrum is anything that works for your team." Sure it is.

Just watched goodbye, DonGeels! And really love it. Very powerful message and it had me almost in tears a few times Hashtag #ドングリ

I wander what it was done to optimize #FM23Touch on the switch. The intro animation when the game is loading is quite slow but the rest of the game seam to run ok so far

Exploring the Kubernetes API

Watch @LukeStoward brilliantly handling a network issue during their live demo! Perhaps this tracing thing is quite useful after all? Want to know more about what's being demonstrated? Luke Stoward - OpenTelemetry with AWS, now available on YouTube! youtu.be/wQ-T1VfzWQs

When the #golang compiler provide you right on a PR review

Inu-oh was such a good movie. Will definitely watch it at less 2 more times #犬王 #inuoh

Wished AWS/Azure had a mandate to officially support #golang in every GA’ed product. This was our motivation almost 8-9 years ago at Google and it paid off well.

If you're blocked on a project, it's not because you can't solve a problem, it's probably because something about the project's organization or structure bugs you. If you go in there and refactor and reorganize it, chances are you'll get unblocked.

At #gopherconuk today and tomorrow. Of you are around come say hi

Anyone knows if the north London go club is meeting today? I'm at the meeting place but I don't see anyone else here cc: @LondonGoCentre @britgo #gogame

node_modules when you start a new project.

HP Team Up With System76 for New Linux Laptop #linux #opensource #popos omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/05/hp-d…

🇯🇵On Japan's bullet trains, dogs usually have to travel in a carrier, but on Saturday they could stretch their paws and enjoy the scenery on a special pet-friendly express My story u.afp.com/wuBs @AFP 📸 @BEHROUZZZZ

When folks are back in the office and the 1 remote person is on the conference room TV

I could probably write a book on this. But the tl;dr is 1) near 100% test coverage and a hyper-fast test suite; 2) have *all* change discussions in written form; 3) leaving the specifics of what gets implemented to the persons doing the work; 4) ship small things, but a lot