#increments

[fieriframes]

[And slows our canter to a trot. We mean to stop, in increments, but can't commit. We post and sit, in impotence. What? Are you Harry Potter? Whoo!]

[justinempire]

Increments

[selahvibe]

Easy 3-Ingredient Copycat Butterfinger Recipe Candy corn, peanut butter, and chocolate chips are the only 3 ingredients you need to make homemade Butterfinger candy bars. 8 ounces candy corn, 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter, 1 cup chocolate chips

[tsukk1]

sendai frogs rock band au !! 🐸🎸✨

[rachaelwilterdink]

More Great Agile Debates, Part 2

In the second part of my new blog series on "Agile's Great Debates," I cover another set of five topics that people tend to argue about when it comes to agile ways of working. Here they are: - SAFe is an Agile Framework - You Should Show “Not Done” Work at the Sprint Review - The Sprint Review is a Status Update - Agile is the same thing as Scrum - The Sprint Review and Retrospective are the Same

SAFe is an Agile Framework

I know I’ll probably get a few haters when I say this, but NO!, I don’t view SAFe as an agile framework. It’s a bloated, complicated (and bastardized) way of trying to accomplish large and overly complex, integrated work. (Seriously, visit their site and you will instantly see what a mess it is.) As an agile consultant, my recommendation is usually to avoid scaling if at all possible. By attempting to scale, you increase cost and complexity, and the risk of failure is much higher. It’s highly preferable to keep atomic and autonomous agile teams that are small and focused.

However, if you feel you must scale, there are (in my humble opinion), far better options than SAFe. These include Less and my scaled agile framework of choice: Nexus (which was created by the same people who wrote The Scrum Guide).

You Should Show “Not Done” Work at the Sprint Review

Uh, duh – NO! This is a cardinal rule of Scrum. Every team must have an agreed-upon Definition of Done, which is an official artifact in Scrum. And if an item does not meet this definition, it is not “Done,” and therefore should not be shared in a Sprint Review. Unfortunately, there are many Scrum Teams that struggle with this. First off, many lack a Definition of Done, and without one, how does anyone know what “done” looks like? Short answer: they don’t! This means that stories can linger and change, because nobody knows where the boundaries are.

Teams may also be tempted to show things that are “mostly” baked. This usually means that the coding has been done and it’s been passed off to QA for testing, but testing is in progress and hasn’t been completed. Some Scrum Teams cheat to get around this irritating problem by adjusting their Definition of Done so it doesn’t include “QA tests passed without any critical- or high-severity defects.” Try not to be this team. Having a tested, working, useable, demonstratable, and potentially-releasable working increment is the whole point of each Sprint!

The Sprint Review is a Status Update

Honestly, this is one of my biggest pet peeves when it comes to agile and Scrum! NO! The Sprint Review is not merely a status update or a demo; this event should be much more than that (and it should replace the dreaded “Status Review Meeting”). The point of the Sprint Review, according to The Scrum Guide is to: “Inspect the outcome of the Sprint and determine future iterations.” Yes, you should show your actual, working increment(s). This should not be a facsimile or a PowerPoint. Not only that, but the Developers should lead this event. They did the hard work of building the backlog items, and they deserve to get the recognition and credit that comes along with delivering. The second, and very important part, of the Sprint Review is to come up with a plan for future iterations. In my experience, the Product Owner has a general idea of what is wanted in the next Sprint or two, and shares this plan with the audience. However, based on stakeholder feedback, that tentative plan may change to accommodate new user requests. At the end of the Sprint Review, the expected outcome is an updated Product Backlog that serves as the input to the next Spring Planning event.

Agile is the same thing as Scrum

There is a widespread and common misunderstanding between agile and Scrum. This occurs because the Scrum Framework is far and away the most popular of agile approaches, but it’s definitely not the only one. Nor is agile synonymous with Scrum. The way I describe this concept when training new Scrum Teams is that agile is a mindset, an umbrella that covers all the various aspects of different agile approaches. All the different “flavors” of agile, therefore, are agile, but they are not agile itself.

To better understand what agile is, the best resource (in my humble opinion) is the original Agile Manifesto, which was famously penned by a group of frustrated software developers who met in Park City, Utah, at a ski resort in my wonderful home state of Utah in 2001. My first child was born the same year, making the document 22 years old, which is relatively new in the grand scheme of technology. In the Agile Manifesto, there are things that are valued more than others (which is not to say the other things don’t have any value). It also includes 12 core principles. Although agile has evolved past software development, the same ideas still apply to other contexts.

The Sprint Review and Retro are the Same

As an agile trainer and coach (Scrum specifically), I have seen that the two Scrum events that are most often confused, are the Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective. I don’t quite understand why there is so much confusion, but my experience has proved it time and time again. To clarify, NO, these two events are not the same thing. Each has its own purpose and audience, along with expected outcomes. The goal of the Sprint Review is to: “Inspect the outcome of the Sprint and determine future iterations.” In contrast with the Sprint Review, the Sprint Retrospective is only for the Scrum Team, without any outside or extra participants (including managers). The point of this event is to embrace the empirical process of inspecting and adapting. It allows the team to honestly look back at the Sprint and identify opportunities for improvement. So, as you can see – the Sprint Review and Retrospective are two totally separate events, with totally different purposes. I hope this clears up any confusion!

Final Thoughts

This blog covered five more ways agile concepts and practices are misunderstood. To recap: try not to scale if you can avoid it, make sure your team has a Definition of Done, only show "done" work at the Sprint Review, which is a separate event with a different purpose than the Retrospective. Finally, agile is a mindset - Scrum is an agile framework. Now, as always - it's your turn! What do you think about these debate topics? Do you have any differing opinions or experiences? If so, I would love to hear about them in the comments below! Oh, and P.S. - if you missed the first blog in this series, you can find it here: - Part 1 - Devs as Sub-team, the 3 questions, product goal, refinement, hybrids Check back for more great debates soon! Read the full article

[bananonbinary]

it somewhat frustrates me when people talk about biden funding genocide, because it's not not true, but it's also like. not really a biden-specific problem. the united states, as a whole, is very pro-genocide. i have never in my life seen a presidential candidate that thinks we should pull back from all the fucked up shit we do internationally.

that is bad. don't get me wrong. you should protest, and make your voices heard, and better yet, actually do things that support the people in danger, but talking about it like it's a unique wrong that biden has done really obfuscates the fact that he is one of the better politicians we've had in office. i'm not saying i'd be his best friend, i don't know or care about him as a person. but as a man doing a job, he IS doing it better than anyone else who could realistically hold the position. it's a low bar, but i'll be damned if we don't clear it just because people think small improvement doesn't matter.

[newsbites]

For the 2024/25 FY, the unions propose a salary increase of 10% across the board, while on the provision of housing, they propose government conducts a comparative study on the provision of housing by governments in the Southern African Development Community (SADC).

The purpose of the proposed study is to provide civil servants with the best alternative to the current housing provisions by the local government.

“On medical aid, government should conduct a comparative study on the provision of medical aid and facilities by governments in the SADC region with the purpose to curb cost and provide the best alternative to the current medical aid provision to civil servants by the government,” reads the report addressed to Prime Minister Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila.

In the proposal, the unions also urged to include the possible improvement of the national health facilities and the procurement of advanced medical equipment countrywide as part of cost-cutting measures and improvement of the provision of general public health services to all citizens.

However, President Hage Geingob recently told the Public Service Commission that the size of the country’s civil service is too big and not sustainable.

[ponytailzuko]

for example, if you go into your alarm app on your phone, how many total alarms are in there?

[sophies-junkyard]

Change is incremental, but something CHANGED today. You weren’t sure about voting for Biden? You don’t have to anymore! And now is the time to RALLY. The world is fucked up, but letting Trump win will not lead to the political revolution we’re waiting for. Wake up.

Im gonna vote for Kamala Harris in November because I don’t want a wannabe dictator running our country. Simple as that.

[youreastargirl]

Okay okay hold on.

You’re telling me that Derek Hale is living in Beacon Hills owning an auto shop and consulting for the sheriff and having a rebellious teenage son who loves the jeep and in the first twenty seconds of being on screen Derek says to the sheriff “Maybe you should call your son?” Like I literally paused it.

Seriously considering keeping it paused and just writing a fanfic to finish it out because this is a beautiful premise that right now is canon. I accept the first 20 minutes of this movie. The rest we can toss.

[lover-of-mine]

911 Hiatus Rewatch and Parallels:

6x09 “Red Flag” -> 6x12 “Recovery” -> 6x15 “Death and Taxes”

[justinempire]

(Justin Empire) Increments 

[snekdood]

"if we make america worse and more of a dictatorship that will be even harder to unravel and make it the way we want the country to be, maybe then everyone will join our Glorious Revolution!" bb girl you cant even be in the same room with someone who thinks you should vote, how in tf do you think you're gonna unite people to fight in The Revolution with you? it's gonna be you and your 5 friends, i hate to break it to you.

[andrumedus]

There is an ache that begins in the sound of an old blues song. It becomes a house where all the lights have gone out but one. And it burns and burns until there is only the blue smoke of dawn and everyone is sleeping in someone's arms even the flowers even the sound of a thousand silences. And the arms of night in the arms of day. Everyone except me.

Joy Harjo, In Mad Love and War; “Summer Night”

[mysticalfg]

I'm extremely normal (mentally ill) about chloe frazer and nadine ross actually

[newsbites]

Public service officers can expect their increments to be reinstated within the new fiscal year. Increments were frozen in 2020 due to the economic blow the country’s economy felt because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Public workers from across the country have been up in arms about the Government’s seemingly sluggish approach to giving them back what they think is due to them. Prime Minister, John Briceño, says that his administration is set on restoring these increments within the new fiscal year, but he also reminded workers that increment is based on merit and is not automatic

And see also: 

https://www.lovefm.com/apssm-president-to-retire-optimistic-about-junt-negotiations-with-gob/