Can You distinguish between Deployment and Release? youtube.com/watch?v=RBQz9QhF… I share 3 strategies in the video. beyond-agility.com/deploymen…

Human vs Machine – Hands-On Workshop - 18. May meetup.com/software-craftsma… #Meetup

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A Final Message From Scott Adams

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees. $30 per seat per month. $1.4 million annually. I called it "digital transformation." The board loved that phrase. They approved it in eleven minutes. No one asked what it would actually do. Including me. I told everyone it would "10x productivity." That's not a real number. But it sounds like one. HR asked how we'd measure the 10x. I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards." They stopped asking. Three months later I checked the usage reports. 47 people had opened it. 12 had used it more than once. One of them was me. I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds. It took 45 seconds. Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations. But I called it a "pilot success." Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail. The CFO asked about ROI. I showed him a graph. The graph went up and to the right. It measured "AI enablement." I made that metric up. He nodded approvingly. We're "AI-enabled" now. I don't know what that means. But it's in our investor deck. A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT. I said we needed "enterprise-grade security." He asked what that meant. I said "compliance." He asked which compliance. I said "all of them." He looked skeptical. I scheduled him for a "career development conversation." He stopped asking questions. Microsoft sent a case study team. They wanted to feature us as a success story. I told them we "saved 40,000 hours." I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up. They didn't verify it. They never do. Now we're on Microsoft's website. "Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot." The CEO shared it on LinkedIn. He got 3,000 likes. He's never used Copilot. None of the executives have. We have an exemption. "Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction." I wrote that policy. The licenses renew next month. I'm requesting an expansion. 5,000 more seats. We haven't used the first 4,000. But this time we'll "drive adoption." Adoption means mandatory training. Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches. But completion will be tracked. Completion is a metric. Metrics go in dashboards. Dashboards go in board presentations. Board presentations get me promoted. I'll be SVP by Q3. I still don't know what Copilot does. But I know what it's for. It's for showing we're "investing in AI." Investment means spending. Spending means commitment. Commitment means we're serious about the future. The future is whatever I say it is. As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

Transforming legacy software doesn’t have to mean risky rewrites. There's a modern path that combines the Strangler Fig Pattern, AI coding tools, and Scrum, mitigating risk while turning feedback loops into drivers of growth. ow.ly/WC1n50WVgNZ @utakapp #Agile #Software

In his latest blog post, PST Peter Gfader explores a hidden culprit behind problematic team dynamics in software development. It’s not the bugs—it’s something deeper. 🦠 ow.ly/N5Fq50WMW0H @peitor #Scrum #SoftwareDevelopment

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When Bugs Become an Organizational Smell Problem - Example nr 1 beyond-agility.com/when-bugs… #orgSmell

The percentage of child dead in the Ukrainian conflict is 0.3%. Zero point three per cent. The percentage of child dead in the Gaza conflict is 37.7%. Thirty seven point seven per cent. In a single statistic, there you have the difference between a war and a genocide.

The bastards are firing at kids 😱 Next time MSM hosts Israeli officials, play them this clip.

If you have a few moments to listen to this interview as a parent with your child. Possible one of the best post race interviews I have ever watched #PlayOn

i work at meta. hr systems. mostly comp processing. quiet job. stable. sometimes i daydream about retiring in portugal. today a package hit my queue. base bonus equity. looks normal at first glance. then i open the details. $1,000,000,000 over four years. plus signing. plus year 1 minimum: $100m. i stare at it like it’s a typo. check the name. triple check the level. researcher. coolcoolcool. so now i have to enter this into workday. i paste the first number, field throws an error.“value must be below $99,999,999.” lol. okay. i try splitting it. base in one bucket, equity in another. nope. i try scientific notation. it rounds it down. the system can’t HANDLE a billion dollars. i call someone on payroll infra. tell them i’ve got a 10-digit comp packet. they think i’m joking. i forward the req. they go quiet. “we’re gonna need to escalate this,” someone mutters. “to who?” i ask. “god, maybe.” next thing i know zuck’s chief of staff is in the thread. now i’m in a thread with zuck. because of a number. then i find out the guy declined the offer. just said no. no negotiation. no counter. just… no. i’ve been maxing out my 401k for 11 years & this man said no to a billion dollars like he was skipping dessert. i close the ticket. delete the draft. go for a walk. & then i rethink everything.

No Fucking Words 🤬 Trump compared the war in Ukraine to "two little kids fighting like crazy in a park." He then proceeded to tell Putin "Maybe you have to keep fighting!" Anyone got that Nobel peace prize laying around so I can shove it up @realDonaldTrump's ass? #Suka

Beograd, Slavija, 18h PUMPAJ PUMPAJ PIMPAJ!!!

Nach 11 Amtsjahren vergleicht die scheidende EU-Bürgerbeauftragte Emily O’Reilly die Kommission unter Frau vonderLeyen mit einer Mafia-Familie...

Guten Morgen @Alice_Weidel, warum haben Sie diese beiden Tweets gelöscht? Stimmt es, dass "Dr. YoungHoon Kim" ein Hoax ist? Dass es gar keinen Menschen aus Südkorea mit einem sensationellen IQ von 276 gibt, der sich für die AfD und Sie persönlich ausspricht? Ist es richtig, dass diese Person lediglich versucht hat, Kontakt zu Elon Musk herzustellen, indem sie Ihre Partei und Sie als Spitzenkandidatin ostentativ abfeierte? Haben Sie überprüft, ob diese Person der Präsident der Gesellschaft für Hochbegabte „Giga Society“ (Homepage endet mit .net) ist? Warum wird diese Person nicht auf der Mitgliederliste der echten „Giga Society“ (Homepage endet mit .com) geführt? Warum kam Ihnen diese Geschichte nicht merkwürdig vor? Veröffentlichen Sie öfter nicht nachgeprüfte Informationen auf Ihren Kanälen? Ist es möglich, dass Sie sich mittlerweile im Wochentakt dämliche Wahlkampf-Pannen leisten? Und Sie wollen dieses Land als Bundeskanzlerin führen? Frau Weidel, ist Ihnen das nicht peinlich? Wenn nein, warum nicht?

„Sonne & Wind wachsen im Moment schneller als jemals eine Form von Energieerzeugung in der Geschichte der Menschheit! Nichts davon bildet sich in der deutschen Debatte ab! Wir reden immer von deutschen Alleingängen, dabei ereignet sich gerade eine absolute Energierevolution auf dem Planeten“ @ChrisStoecker

Is the Lindt Dubai Chocolate hype just trying to cover up this news? #lindt #chocoloate #dubai #infoNoise fortune.com/europe/2024/11/1…

Hab ich den nächsten Hype verpasst? Nach künstlicher kommt fortschrittliche Intelligenz. Apple Website

With the US elections just around the corner, some food for thought about #democracy, #dictatorship and #truth. @billmaher