Given a couple days of thought after that last job, it became kind of apparent to me (and I knew this all along, but didn’t quite put two and two together about it), the previous place I worked, while I really liked the team and management, really didn’t know what the hell they were doing with Agile. They knew that it would help them with estimates, but if all your focus on is estimates, you’re just adding bureaucracy without adding the teamwork element that makes Agile a better development philosophy for many teams.
This is going to be a little bit of self-therapy, so bare with it…if you like. It’s kind of always been the same…the places I love to work, rarely, if ever, love me back enough to really give me a chance to belong and stay, be a part of something. On the other hand, the [...]
Geoff Kleinman’s recent <a href=”http://www.onpdx.com/music/94-7fm-krnk-give-us-feedback-then-youfail/” target=Resource Window>post</a> on his twitter battle with 94.7 KNRK really got me to thinking…I haven’t listened intentionally to FM radio in a really, really long time. See, I can listen to good local bands on Pandora that get no play at all on KNRK, drowned out by, effectively, big label [...]
This is probably the umpteenth million Palm Pre blog/review, but I’ve had it burning in me for awhile.
I start walking behind this asshole who is smoking while walking through the crowd. I try to get around him because my fucking eyes are burning from the low quality tobacco that he’s spewing out his nostrils. Then this little jackass prances up to me and says “We don’t allow pets down at the market anymore”. What the hell? I’m just trying to get through that mess.