AgileAus24
Two days of inspiring speakers and a full day with Quinton Quartel (FaST), unordered snapshots. #agileaus #agileaus24 #agile #leadership #productmanagement #agilecommunity
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Automating Jira sprints
This post describes the advantages of automating Jira sprint creation for Agile leaders, emphasizing enhanced efficiency, consistency, and improved long-term planning. It features a script authored by Andrew and hosted on GitHub, enabling the creation of single or multiple sprints across multiple Jira projects. The script ensures standardized sprint naming, start/end dates, and times, and facilitates the retrieval of SprintIDs for seamless integration with JQL and Confluence.
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Definition of Ready (DoR)
The prerequisites for an agile issue to enter an iteration or sprint, ensuring readiness for work commencement. Detailing ten key characteristics with recommendations, noting possible variations for epics, tasks, and sub-tasks.
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urgent and important
One day someone was walking through a forest and came across a grizzly bear. The bear saw our...
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Four days…
How agile and agile leadership concepts can be applied to elite motor sport. #agile #agileleadership #leadership #systemsthinking
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Re-employing agile – embracing agility outside traditional software development
On Friday, 8 October 2021 I gave an online talk for the Access Agile Freestival on my experiences with “re-employing” agile – how agile can be embraced by non-software development teams. This page contains a video recording of the talk plus other resources including an audio-only version of the talk together with the slides I presented and a transcript of my speaker notes.
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Reading…we all do a lot of it…
But how much do you absorb, what do you learn from your time investment? An interesting article from Farnam Street on something that we all do an awful lot of.
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Repurposing ADSL gear under NBN
My recent NBN journey to HFC and how to repurpose an ASUS ADSL modem.
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Free lockdown tech reading – building secure and reliable systems
Have you found yourself retagging your music collection (like, really who has an offline collection these days?) and how many films and streaming series can you watch before sticking a fork in your eye might be a worthy distraction? The complete 557 page book from O’Reilly “Building Secure and Reliable Systems” free and with the compliments of Google Cloud 🙂
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Things to do in lockdown…
1,150 Free Movies Online: Great Classics, Indies, Noir, Westerns, documentaries from Open Culture
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How to protect your privacy from Facebook
A step by step guide on how to reduce Facebook’s ability to directly capture what you do online.
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Inconsistent change
Change. Why consistency is everything and how new players like Facebook still have to deal with the legacy of change and inconsistent code causing an inconsistent user experience.
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Cookie Party
Cookie Monster is one of my favourite Sesame Street characters, especially the unrivalled hunger for his namesake. I was reminded of this by a two day old Washington Post article titled “Goodbye, Chrome: Google’s web browser has become spy software“. This article goes into some depth about how we are individually being tracked online, the impact of this and how often there is scant knowledge of why this is happening and what the outcome is for us and the purveyors of Internet sites and services…[read on for solutions to this]
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Exponentially Digital, welcome!
Welcome to this site’s new domain name “Exponentially Digital”. Why the change? I’m glad you asked…[read on to know why]
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Home Affairs reveals Australian authorities already using new encryption powers
This is how it starts, how under the guise of “security” our freedom and privacy is stripped away. A thoroughly bad law has been implemented and supported by both sides of Australian politics. What’s worse than the impact on our individual privacy is what it means for the state of cryptography across the entire Internet: purposefully allowing back doors to be built into core components of the technology foundation is ripe for abuse by both state and non state actors.
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IBM unveils the first business usable quantum computer…
We’re entering a strange new world of fresh opportunity, quantum computing is moving forward. Fifty odd years ago a computer filled a building, now they’re in our hands, one day too this will come to pass for quantum computing. All things in time, for those with patience…
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The 3-Step Evening Ritual That Will Make You Happy
The important psychological effects of regular writing habits.
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As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening for Tech Giants – The New York Times
Internal documents show that the social network gave Microsoft, Amazon, Spotify and others far greater access to people’s data than it has disclosed including access to private user messages; tools to enhance your privacy if you simply can’t stop using Facebook.
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Where did it all go?
Yep, we’ve all been there managing an ever decreasing amount of storage on our favorite weapon of choice. A short post to plug Windows and Android tools to assist.
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