Sometimes I wonder if it's the last responsible moment or if I'm just a chancer.

Dear Jira. Please no. The new ticket design.... make it stop. Thank you Everyone.

Should not have checked my /played 350,400 hours 🙉🙈🙊🎂

Glasses which come with a monthly subscription fee? Just no.

9 months sober today. 3 months to my next big milestone.

Richard top motivation tip #79. If you want to get your teams to reflect on their progress and how much there's left to do of their work, then today you can remind them we are 180 days into the year and there's now just 179 more to go to Christmas. Half way folks. Half way. 👿

Dear previous home owner. How? How did you even manage that???

Just two last sleeps in Hertford left. 3 if you count an afternoon nap.

Oh dear. I have totally over estimated my brain's ability to marry up a photo of a sofa with the feeling of how comfortable it was at the time.

I am now officially a Londoner. Do I get some sort of badge? or a mug?

It would make me so happy if Splunk made their search progress bar more obvious than trying to find a strand of hair on a wooden floor when you've dropped your contact lenses.

I cannot recommend the national theatre production of All My Sons enough. Such a set of stand out performances

Now look here Google. If you're going to roll out new favicons to people in your suite of software then you need to write to us individually to confirm that we don't have anything important going on when you have hundreds of browser tabs open and use them to keep track of your life.

I don't know why nobody wants to do a one hour sprint planning with me. I promise those three hours estimating will be the best eight hours of your life.

Graphs I'd like to see - number 73. A measure of team productivity over Slacks downtime / availability

In a session introducing new starters to a delivery team called 'Owl' We said that the team's names have no meaning other than the people in the team liked the sound the bird makes. I said WHO? ...and nobody laughed. 😭

Boy math. A true story. Boy want smart home. Smart home cost money. Boy cannot afford smart home. Boy discover smart thermostat save money. Suddenly boy not spending, boy investing. Boy making grown up decisions. Boy saving money. Smart boy!

Cursing at myself for recognising the need to have a label maker YEARS AGO for the very organisational emergency I am experiencing. Yet not having the foresight to put it somewhere I'd remember where it is, nor label that place properly with it. WHAT A FOOL!

Drinking tea from my Christmas mug, the washing up can wait.

The very specific tears of only being able to order stories for an epic in Jira in backlog view, instead of in the epic itself.

Turned my new PC on for the first time in front of my sister. She comments on the RGB lights. 'Oooh it has party mode! Oh look! And your keyboard has party mode too.' Well... My grown up purchase very much feels less grown up now.

A single swan is holding up a 10-carriage train and absolutely refusing to move. It won, a 20 minute delay. And yet this afternoon here I am saying I can't change this or that. I'm just one person.

You know you can sometimes look at an image and hear a sound? I now think it's possible to look at a Jira ticket title and ID and hear something. Is there a word for this?

101 Reasons why I couldn't be a content designer number 76. I ask questions like 'what's the proper, but not proper noun for that? ' 'Do you mean what's it called? ' Yes i do.

Spent the afternoon guest facilitating a liberating structures eco-cycle for another team. It helped me practice my skills in a space that I'm not too comfortable in, and I get to hear what my peers think of the practices they use. Lots I can take back and think about in my own work. Win win.

If you see one thing at the cinema this week. Treat yourself and go see Secret Agent.

Nouvelle Vague is a fun film.

Here I am pitching a dummy hang up call button in video call software. Never again will someone say 'is there anything else you want to talk about' where you confidently say 'no' only to be immediately struck by a new thought when you hang up.

We've seen why it's critical to run things safely. Often this can be traced back to decisions made over time. This framing is helpful for teams. Adds weight to raise outside of retros. Short post on tackling tech debt. Make it visible + modernise incrementally. rummanamin.co.uk/tackling-tec...

Tackling Technical Debt Without Stopping Delivery - Rumman Amin

How to manage legacy systems, reduce risk and modernise sustainably without asking teams to stop everything

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