Five for Friday – April 17, 2020

Yesterday, I read a mail sent to an email alias I’m on, where the author was asking why tool X wasn’t enabled on his latest build. The mail looked something like this (genericized to protect the innocent). foo.service doesn’t appear to be working Repro: I installed the build from <build_path> I verified the binaries existed…

Greg Paciga talks about demoing things that aren’t done – or that don’t work. He’s right – but what’s weird is the heat he took for saying that on twitter Mike Cohn (of the automation pyramid fame) asks Three Questions to Determine if Your Organization is Agile Yet another really nice article from Jeff Nyman on hiring…

A lot of people want to see changes happen. Some of those want to make change happen. Whether it’s introducing a new tool to a software team, changing a process, or shifting a culture, many people have tried to make changes happen. And many of those have failed. I’ve known “Jeff” for nearly 20 years….

I’d like to announce my candidacy for…no – not that kind of politics, I thought I’d drop a few comments on office politics. Too often, people see “politics” as the evil underbelly of the corporate world, and that competency in office politics requires that you can backstab your coworkers with no remorse, find a variety…

Wow – where did that week go? Here are few things I found worth pondering this week. There will be a full blog post with details, but I had one too many pieces of hardware fail after an ill-timed Windows update, and a few too many settings changes after the same, and I flipped out…

I’m continuing to try and enjoy summer here while it lasts – before it gets too hot. Summer in the pacific northwest is why we put up with the gray and wet for the other 11 months of the year. Anyway – here’s some stuff I read or found this week that you may find…