i come with a problem that is currently really bothering me. Basically a while ago i have started rebounding with my ex girlfriend (we arw both 19 years old) whom i very much love but then it turned out that for about 3 months that we were rebounding she was with another guy and has never told me...
It's over 30 degrees outside, and December is still months away... yet I woke up to yet another fight over Black Pete. People really have nothing better to do with their lives right now it seems.
I've been actively pushing so we throw away all estimates altogether. If stories are small enough then just count stories, i said. But people are so afraid of change
It seems rather curious to train the development staff on several days for agile methodologies. There isn't that much that change in the developer perspective when switching to agile management
We spent 15 minutes just now, putting a feature into 'stories' of the type 'As an X I want Y so that Z'
(With Z being business value, but the other attendants kept putting in 'end results')
As a customer I want to search for books by title so that I can quickly find the book I want to buy.
Should have been one
Instead they put in 'As a customer I want to search for books by title so that I get books in the search results that have a specific sentence in the title'
amazingly enough, our stories look more like the second kind. Because it's tiresome to write and confusing to read "user stories" when your main preoccupation is understanding what to implement
we work on a product that is quite complex and a lot of focus can be required on that. The end goal is often redundant, we want our clients satisfied.
some of our features are just client demands we can't exactly shape into business values. Sometimes we don't even have the details. It's just the flavour they want for their software.
crap, delivery man just called me saying no one is home, he says to meet him at an location at 2pm, i still need to get a uber to the train station (20min) and my train leaves at 14:48
aaaaah
XD
i'll see if i can anticipate the hour
by coincidence none of the 3 neighbors i know were home
@Rainbacon It... also depends a bit on what you're used to. I started in a single scrum team, with no other teams we were depending on. I now work for a big network operator and there's so many teams that SAFe really allows to work more agile than just waterfalling, at least.
The safe training I did focused very heavily on process and tooling. We were told not to talk to other teams except through our scrum master, everything had to be in Jira and keeping Jira up to date so that the managers "knew exactly where we stood at all times". We did these huge workshops to plan out several months worth of work at a time and then everything had to be working to the plan.
All of these things are in complete contradiction with the agile manifesto
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools Working software over comprehensive documentation Customer collaboration over contract negotiation Responding to change over following a plan
Here they're hammering on transparency, without it SAFe fails.
And each 'part' (scrum master, product owner, agile team) has their own role in that transparency, but they're not forbidding the agile team to talk to another agile team directly.
We just need to know our scrum master is there should we need them to facilitate the transparency :D
And yeah, you do plan a Product Increment (which is typically 5 sprints of 2 weeks) in advance, and try to stick to that because otherwise other teams on the release train might end up missing functionality to build the whole product further....
But the Product Increment is at feature level, not story level.
So if we promise to deliver a search feature, there's a few requirements, and we get to determine the stories based on those requirements. We don't get to build a shopping cart though :P
+1 : I personnally use that counter-question myself with great effect, though the question itself doesn’t bother me as much as OP. If the person is right(-ish), I’d reply "Not too far from the truth", otherwise "Not quite there but it’s okay", and in both cases I can conclude with "That will do/that’s precise enough for now" if they insist. :-) — breversa28 secs ago
Got a couple of quick questions: Have you ever discussed 'cheat days', are they part of the diet? And you don't have to answer this one but... will cutting calories and exercise be worth it while you're still on this medicine?
Oh, and is your partner having a say in the whole menu planning business already?
@Tinkeringbell I didnt come across with a plan like "we should eat healthy 6 days a week" i think it would be recieved a bit badly, and for second question sports and healthy foods are definitely recommended with medecine
@Tinkeringbell yes he does, I ask him what he likes often and what he'd like to eat, we tried so far to do that in mutual agreement, but this is kind of hard to reach these days
You might want to put the last one in your question, just so people get a better feel of how much he is already involved in the whole idea/planning/execution :)
I'm 30 and due to being very sedentary, especially with COVID, due to being on a medicine that affects hunger, I'm slightly overweight. I'm taking this very seriously as I've never been overweight before and it affects me very negatively toward my personal self-image.
I have projects to do sports...
@ArthurHavlicek If you get him to discuss it, tell him that the progress would be incremental. That you wouldn't have to suddenly quit the nice desserts, and start with 30-min walks five days a week (or whichever you both feel comfortable with), with rest days
When you tell uninitiated folks about cardio, they picture Usain Bolt. When you tell them about weightlifting, they picture Mr. Incredible. When you talk about swimming, Phelps in swimming around in their head.
What you can help with most of the time is the mental picture that living healthier would not have to mean professional diets or what other form of torture he's conjuring in his mind
Also, about the hints: would he understand them I would have no ice cream proposal. He knows very little about dieting and doesn't want to learn any, which might be why, but this is also why I believe there is something with denial there. — Arthur Havlicek1 min ago
