{"id":1232,"date":"2018-03-09T12:54:19","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T20:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/?p=1232"},"modified":"2018-04-06T13:05:03","modified_gmt":"2018-04-06T20:05:03","slug":"five-for-friday-march-9-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/five-for-friday-march-9-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Five for Friday &#8211; March 9, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Two quotes I&#8217;m pondering from Peter Drucker (both appear in Stephen Denning&#8217;s\u00a0<em>The Age of Agile)<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201c<em>There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer<\/em>.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\u201c<em>It is the customer who determines what a business is.<\/em>&#8220;<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>I thought <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.unity3d.com\/2018\/03\/08\/international-womens-day-2018-celebrating-women-in-technology\/\">yesterday&#8217;s post from Unity<\/a> on International Woman&#8217;s Day was really well done.<\/li>\n<li>While I realized this fully during my time at Microsoft, it&#8217;s official; research says that the <a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2018\/03\/research-do-people-really-get-promoted-to-their-level-of-incompetence\">Peter Principle is a full on truth<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I enjoy the concept of the &#8220;Manager Readme&#8221; &#8211; Michael Lopp (aka Rands), posted his version this week: <a href=\"http:\/\/randsinrepose.com\/archives\/how-to-rands\/\">How to Rands<\/a>. I have a much less well written readme of my own on our internal wiki.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve mentioned before that I think Kanban is wonderful. Like most wonderful things, if people do it wrong, it&#8217;s less wonderful. That&#8217;s why the <a href=\"https:\/\/kanbanize.com\/blog\/kanban-is-more-than-sticky-notes-on-the-wall\/\">first quote of this article<\/a> made me want to read the rest.<br \/>\n&#8220;<em>If you ask 100 people \u201cWhat is Kanban\u201d probably 50 (or more) will answer \u201cA white board with sticky notes on it\u201d or should we say a \u201cKanban wall<\/em>\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two quotes I&#8217;m pondering from Peter Drucker (both appear in Stephen Denning&#8217;s\u00a0The Age of Agile) \u201cThere is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.\u201d \u201cIt is the customer who determines what a business is.&#8220; I thought yesterday&#8217;s post from Unity on International Woman&#8217;s Day was really well done. While I realized&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allposts","category-five-for-friday"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}