Velocity is seductive because it’s measurable.
Points go up. Charts look good. Progress feels tangible.
But velocity often tells you how fast you’re moving…
not whether you’re moving in the right direction. #Sensemaking #Development
Hello #StarTrek fans - has anyone been to this yet? I'm thinking of heading over
#SpeirGhorm
www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/star-trek-60
Sensemaking: The ongoing practice of turning uncertainty into shared understanding by exploring signals, questioning assumptions, and continuously learning what’s actually happening so better decisions can emerge. #Sensemaking #Development
An Irish-language science fiction book sounds quite modern, doesn’t it?
Check out this one from 1939 #Spéirghorm
End of civilisation part 2 Just right? Flahavan's is ditching the plastic porridge scoop and people are stirred up about it jrnl.ie/7015655
(By the way, the last Potemkin mutineer opened a chippy in Dublin and lived to 104.)
www.latimes.com/archives/la-...
Great engineering organisations reward prevention, not heroics.
The best teams celebrate:
• fewer incidents
• fewer emergencies
• fewer late nights
Quiet reliability beats dramatic rescues.
#Software #Dev #Agile #Smells #Heroics
If urgent work keeps appearing, it's not a developer problem.
It's a prioritisation and leadership problem.
#Software #Dev #Agile #Smells #Heroics
Laugh, and the world laughs with you. Keep laughing, and the world laughs a little less heartily. Laugh some more, and the world starts to look nervous. Show no sign of stopping the laughter and pretty soon you'll have the entire train carriage to yourself.
A good rule for engineering teams:
“We can work faster temporarily.
But we cannot work faster forever.”
#Software #Dev #Agile #Smells #Heroics
Working from home. Man stands with hands on head, trying to get to home office, but blocked by toy trucks. #ireland #FuelProtest
My Dub husband just called Coddle Willy-con-carne and that's what I'll be calling it going forward #SpeirGorm
A large, ring-shaped Lucrehulk-class droid control ship orbits the green and blue planet Naboo, surrounded by several smaller Vulture droids in the dark expanse of space.
BREAKING NEWS
In response to the Trade Federation's blockade of Naboo, the Republic announces a blockade of Naboo.
Article Link: The Blockade Is the Message, How a fuel price spike became a fascist audition
I’ve managed to string together my thoughts through the rage this week, please read & share 💭✍🏼
#Spéirghorm #IrishPolitics #Fascism
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Healthy engineering teams don't rely on heroes.
They rely on:
• planning
• prioritisation
• automation
• sustainable pace
Heroics should be the exception, not the operating model.
#Software #Dev #Agile #Smells #Heroics
Proud of this one tho ...
Hero culture doesn't scale.
The most committed engineers eventually burn out, leave, or disengage.
The organisation loses its strongest people.
#Software #Dev #Agile #Smells #Heroics
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About 30 if not more, across all StarTrek series
Every time developers rush urgent work:
• Testing gets skipped
• Documentation disappears
• Technical debt grows
You didn't move faster.
You just moved the cost into the future.
#Software #Dev #Agile #Smells #Heroics
End of civilisation update
A feature delivered in 3 weeks of sustainable work might be forced into 1 week with late nights and weekends.
Leadership often remembers the 1 week, not the human cost.
Heroics distort reality.
#Software #Dev #Agile #Smells #Heroics
The fastest way to destroy good planning is to reward firefighting.
If teams are celebrated for last-minute rescues, the organisation will slowly create more fires.
#Software #Dev #Agile #Smells #Heroics
*cough* www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p... #BBC #GreatEggRace
New Gist: Not Mandatory, Not Compulsory, Not Legal
The DPC has fined the Department of Social Protection €550,000. This is the Gist.
(at no point do I use the words "I told you so")
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-not...
If there was a "Manifesto for Empirical Software Development", what might it advocate? - Data over anecdotes? - Experiments over debates? - Skepticism over social proof? - Hypotheses over opinions? - Weight of evidence over follower counts? - Efficacy over "That's how we've always done it"?
If there was a "Manifesto for Empirical Software Development", what might it advocate?
Text of poem - 'Easter. I approach'. Easter. I approach the years' empty tomb. What has time done with itself? Is the news worth the communicating? The word's loincloth can remember little. A thin, cold wind blows from beyond the abysm that I gawp into. But supposing there were bones; the darkness illuminated like a museum? In glass cases I have peered at the brittle bundles, exonerating my conscience with mortality's tears. But here, true to my name, I have nothing to hold on to, an absence so much richer than a presence, offering instead of the skull's leer an impalpable possibility for faith's fingertips to explore.
Pasg Hapus i chi gyd!
Happy Easter to you all!
‘Easter. I approach…’ - #RSThomas
(Uncollected Poems, @BloodaxeBooks)
A picture of a cat. It says, “4 years ago lived in a bush and hunted my own meals. Now I have 2 passive incomes, my own house, & a personal chef. Follow me for more financial advice.”
Lads…
#speirgorm
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