Category: Programming
Automating Jira sprints
Sunday 7 Jul, 2024 | Agile, Cloud, Development, Programming, Scrum, Software, Teams, Web |
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.
Read MoreAgile – building a high performing team
Wednesday 1 Aug, 2018 | Agile, Development, Programming, Software, Teams, Thoughts |
Building a high performing team starts with careful observation, dedication and commitment.
Read MoreAgile software development
Sunday 3 Jun, 2018 | Development, Programming, Scrum, Thoughts |
This post is the text of an article I wrote and internally published on Friday, 27th April 2018 while working at NBN Australia to provide an Iteration Manager aka Scrum Master retrospective the day before our next Program Increment planning session. It’s from a point in time where the Iteration Manager (me!) was looking at what’s changed and what challenges are still to come for the development team.
Read MoreCode Monkey
Sunday 10 Jul, 2016 | Programming, Thoughts |
On the back of NetworkWorld’s recent announcement, and other harbingers of doom, that Android’s KitKat (4.x) LolliPop (5.x) & Marshmallow (6.x) releases have known security issues, I decided to seriously revisit taking up being a code monkey again. This time though it’s (more?) serious with 100+ issues including several chipset code vulnerabilities being reported by our good friends at Google. Easy, I’ll have this fixed in a jiffy: whip out VirtualBox currently enjoying a cushy life as a Xamarin Android Player for a virtualised Nexus 7 LolliPop plaything (what, you don’t have virtual playthings?) and that old copy of Ubuntu LTS 14.04 which has been taking up precious NAS space and use up some of that extraneous SSD space on my i7 laptop…
Read MoreOutages and Lemons
Sunday 10 Jul, 2016 | Programming, Thoughts |
Outages. I hate them. You hate them. We all hate them. Just fixed an issue with a component which...
Read MoreHTML Cheat Sheet (including new HTML5 tags) for Beginners
Friday 1 Jul, 2016 | Programming |
Everything you wanted to know about HTML 5 in one place, a very handy reference for digital natives enjoying web creation duties.
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