#Cost of Delay

[alemanbarbecue]

Roger Turnau - Taming the Backlog with Cost of Delay, A Conversation, SPaMCAST 796

The Software Process and Measurement Cast 796 features a conversation with Roger Turnau. Roger and I talk about prioritization using the cost of delay. Every organization and team I have ever worked with has a backlog of work and lots of people screaming that their piece of the backlog is the most important. The cost of delay is an important tool to filter out the noise and it can be as nuanced…

[exceltricks]

Mit der Excel-Vorlage "WSJF-Matrix" können Sie Ihre Aufgaben oder Projekte priorisieren

Die WSJF-Matrix Die WSJF-Methode, auch bekannt als “Weighted Shortest Job First” Methode, ist eine Priorisierungstechnik aus dem agilen Projektmanagement. Sie hilft dabei, Aufgaben und Projekte basierend auf ihrer Wichtigkeit und geschätzten Dauer zu ordnen. Die Methode verwendet Wichtigkeitsbewertungen und schätzt die Dauer jeder Aufgabe ein, um den WSJF-Wert zu berechnen. Aufgaben mit höheren…

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Lan Wangji Goes To Lotus Pier AU: Part 4.5: Morning Period.

(Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5)

[vickyvicarious]

As the door began to open, the howling of the wolves without grew louder and angrier; their red jaws, with champing teeth, and their blunt-clawed feet as they leaped, came in through the opening door. I knew then that to struggle at the moment against the Count was useless. With such allies as these at his command, I could do nothing.

The wolves are actually scrabbling so close at the doorway that their claws and swiping through the crack. That's scary as hell, especially given that they killed a woman right on this doorstep less than a week ago.

I love that Jonathan wants to hurt Dracula enough that the idea briefly occurs to him here and he has to dismiss it as useless. I wonder if he was willing to take a desperate chance on trying to shove Dracula aside as soon as the door was open to just make a dash for it. It would be a tremendous risk and almost certain death, but if the Count had to leave in the morning and Jonathan could put a little distance between them, there might just, just be a minuscule chance that he wouldn't be hunted down... but of course, the wolves make that impossible. It wouldn't have been feasible anyway because Dracula could just send the wolves after him in the forest even if he didn't want to personally chase him down (which he almost certainly could) but Jonathan may have been willing to risk it regardless. Except having the wolves right there at the door makes this completely impossible, makes his death here certain... so he crumples, and begs to stay till morning.

[krasytoonz]

Accidentally married so they smooch it out

[jakeperalta]

on my knees crying and begging for the uk railways to be renationalised... I can't keep living like this.......

[blindchandelure]

Ughhh.

Starting Monday, I have to start getting up at 7 again, instead of like. Noon. 🥱

[une-sanz-pluis]

hello! i wanted to ask whether there is any record of what isabella of valois’s reasons were for refusing to marry into the english royal family again after the death of richard ii. obviously it’s easy to speculate a variety of possible reasons, given the circumstances, but do we have evidence of what was actually primarily motivating that decision? or at least what reasons she gave publicly for it?

Hi, sorry for taking so long to get to your ask. The last few months have been hectic and I had to take some time to research this. The research took awhile because the image of Isabelle of Valois making a furious stand against Henry IV and refusing to marry his son is very common but actual contemporary sources for it... are not. At least, I haven't been able to find any.

I'm not saying that we definitely have no contemporary source for it - I'm aware that, since I can't read French or Latin and don't have access to an academic library, I can only check things that have been published or translated into English and are easily accessible. However, I'm reasonably certain that I've not missed anything obvious since none of the academic work I've read ever cite anything like the story. The most sources say is that Henry IV wanted Isabelle to marry into the royal family (e.g. Jean Creton claims that Henry wanted to marry a woman in the French royal family himself and marry his son, the future Henry V, to Isabelle) and that Charles VI* was steadfast in his refusal to even countenance the offer and instead wanted Isabelle to be returned.

The best source I could find for Isabelle's feelings on her potential remarriage is in Jean Froissart's Oeurves, which is available online for free but in French. Working off an ill-advised Google Translation and other historians' discussion of the passage, Jean de Hangest, lord of Hugueville was able to have a private audience with Isabelle, during which he informed her that her parents absolutely forbade her from marrying into the English royal family again and that she should refuse any efforts even if she incurred the wrath of the English. Isabelle confirmed that the English had spoken to her about marriage on several occasions (there are no other details were given) and then she asked Hugueville to assure her father of her obedience to his will and said, on fear of death, she wouldn't disobey him and marry without his permission. Then she began to weep and Hugueville ended their meeting.

Her anger at Henry IV does have some support in contemporary sources, however, but these relate to reports of her behaviour during the ceremonies for her return to France in Mary 1401.

The sources almost universally agree that Isabelle was agitated during the ceremonies, both in England and in France. Adam of Usk reports that she said little but scowled with "deep hatred" at Henry and that some feared "her burning desire for revenge". Other writers report her weeping during the ceremonies. Juvenal des Ursins, for instance, writes that she wept and continued to weep loudly, despite her parents' joyful greeting of her.

It's important to stress that Isabelle is given little to no direct speech in these reports (the exception is John Hayward who wrote Isabelle openly reproving Henry, but given he wrote during the Tudor era, his version should be considered suspect) and that all reports interpret her body language in order to fit their own narratives. For instance, Usk depicts her unconcealed anger as a sign of her childishness which, in turn, feeds his overall aim in discrediting Richard II's kingship. For Richard to choose such a young and childish girl for his queen speaks to a serious error in judgement and further adds to Lancastrian narrative of Richard being unable to mature into adulthood and rule properly.

This is not to say that Isabelle's agitation was a wholesale invention by the chroniclers but, rather, it is they who have assigned the meaning to her behaviour.

I suspect that the narrative of her furious refusal to the proposal that she marry Henry's son conflates the reports of Usk and Hayward (the latter of whom is probably given too much weight) with the fact of the marriage negotiations. It's a perfectly logical leap to make. We know from Hugueville that the English did speak to her about marriage but we know nothing about what was said or how she felt about it, so we borrow from the accounts of her open anger at Henry IV when she was returned to her parents. But in terms of actual evidence, all we know is that her parents had prohibited it and that Isabelle wished to be obedient to their will. It's also important to recognise that Isabelle was still under the age of consent so she, personally, could not agree to a marriage and permission had to be given by her parents as long she remained underage.

As you say, it's very easy to speculate. I came away from my research feeling incredibly sorry for Isabelle. It's very, very easy imagine that Richard's deposition and the prolonged negotiations between England and France over her future were incredibly distressing, especially when we read of the pressure she was under from both sides. It would be entirely natural if she did resent Henry for what he had done to her and to Richard and I do think there was at least some truth to Usk's reports of her anger. In terms of what she felt about her potential husband - who was very probably the future Henry V, though the official records are somewhat vague on this point - we have no evidence.

* I use "Charles VI" here as it was in his name that these actions were carried out. It should be read as a shorthand for his government as due to his severe mental illness it is not always clear who was directing French policy. As far as I can make out, however, Charles was in one of his lucid periods during these negotiations.

References

Stephanie Downes and Stephanie Trigg, "“she shal bryngen us the pees on every syde”: The Ceremonial Restoration of Women in Late Medieval Culture", Literature, Emotions and Pre-Modern War: Conflict In Medieval and Early Modern Europe (ARC Humanities Press 2021)

Nancy McLoughlin, Jean Gerson and Gender: Rhetoric and Politics in Fifteenth-Century France (Palgrave 2015)

Christopher Phillpotts, “The Fate of the Truce of Paris, 1396–1415,” Journal of Medieval History, vol. 24, no. 1 (1998)

S.P. Pistono, “Henry IV and Charles VI: The Confirmation of the Twenty-Eight-Year Truce,” Journal of Medieval History, vol. 3, no. 4 (1977)

S. P. Pistono, “The Diplomatic Mission of Jean De Hangest, Lord of Hugueville (October, 1400),” Canadian Journal of History, vol. 13, no. 2 (1978)

Louise Tingle, "Isabella of Valois: Child Queen", Later Plantagenet and the Wars of the Roses Consorts: Power, Influence, and Dynasty (Palgrave 2023)  

Deanne Williams, "Isabelle de France: Child Bride", Shakespeare and the Performance of Girlhood (Palgrave 2014)

[alpinelogy]

heartbreaking: someone from [redacted] just ordered my graphics and despite me living in [redacted] most of the year i will still be sending them from the motherland cause idk how to send mail in this country. and also they do not know i am a resident of [redacted] i am pretty sure

[ineffablefool]

current status: foaming at the goddamn mouth

[mildlylesbian]

If silksong gets canceled I will personally eat every Unity higher up who had a hand in this decision.

[deus-ex-mona]

l e t m e i n ! ! !

[anonymusbosch]

with my new insurance, it's official: buying my narcolepsy meds from india on the gray market with bitcoin would be cheaper than getting them from the pharmacy with insurance. woooo america love u private healthcare yeaahhhh babey USA USA USA

[wheretheeternalare]

i have to say people making jokes about trump's "transgender surgery for illegal prisoners" line, even if the jokes are about how that sounds like a great time or we, does not feel so great when you have a penpal who's an incarcerated non-US citizen trans woman who has been fighting to get surgery for decades

[nando161mando]

fascist nazi rightwinger rishi sunak & co.

[attila-werther]

went to bainbridge to look at some art and you know what. I know I said if I had to pick a coast, I'm an east coast/best coast truther. but the pnw never made me go through a harrowing journey (massachusetts afternoon traffic) to see the fucking ocean, so maybe I need to rethink that