Dave Draper

@itsdouges @al_hinds @lorvsso As exciting as your ex-manager unexpectedly appearing at the office? 🤔

@al_hinds @lorvsso yeah

For my Alfresco alumni... Caught up with the legend that is @andyhealey101 in Sydney this evening! (Probably should have taken the selfie in front on a famous Sydney landmark rather than a random restaurant, but hey-ho).

@itsdouges github.com/draperd/react-…

Does there exist any React form library that doesn't equate to passing around event listeners/hooks?

Atlassian’s statement on today’s Supreme Court ruling in the USA.

@samuel_langlois @neilmcer Too soon, Samuel... Still way too soon 😭

@neilmcer @_DaveDraper Blue passport FTW! 😝

Joining Atlassian 4 and a half years ago (and having them bring me to Australia!) was the best decision I ever made. An amazing company to work for that truly cares about their employees! 😃

@itsdouges Well, apparently it wasn't for the weather! 🤣

@_DaveDraper I didn’t realise you came to Australia to work for atlassian!

@jenniesyip I'm so sorry Jennie 😢

My bebe Butters passed away yest day at 17 years young. She’s Peanut’s older sister. She passed peacefully in her sleep. I can’t explain how I feel. She taught Peanut everything and now it’s like her other half is missing. 😭 I will miss her gigantic smile and energy. Love you B.

@lorvsso @quokkaeveryhour Selfie with a quokka is right up there on my bucket list. Well played 👏

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@lorvsso "glory" verb: take great pride or pleasure in. I can't help you with the fame, but I hear it's not all it's cracked up to be

@alexandereardon What was your answer?

This thread lives rent free in my head. It is so easy to make broad truth claims in tech; I do all the time! We should always be willing to wrestle with nuances of particular circumstances

@lorvsso @Thalattamus @Tim_Cahill It's ok Jack... Once Everton are in the Championship you'll be able to enjoy the feeling of your team winning games again 😉

@pollen8 What about reducing sprint length? We've been using weekly sprints. Easier to plan (shorter ceremonies!) and it doesn't seem so drastic to delay something to the next sprint (because it's only 4 working days away at most)

@_DaveDraper First time back to sprints for a while. 2 week sprints. We will have all the ceremonies and yes to most of those questions . This issue was requested externally. Basically I think we can't have our cake and eat it. Either we are goal focused (sprints) or hyper reactive (kanban)

First time back to sprints and they're already being reorganised mid sprint. Spoke to a fellow dev in another company and he said this is par for the course. Can't we just stop pretending and do kanban please?

@pollen8 How long are the sprints? Who reorganising them? Is the team bringing in new issues or are they being forced on the team? Do you run retros to analyse why the changes occurred? Does a stakeholder sign off on the sprint goal and review outcomes in the retro? 🤔

I get sprints are meant to motivate a team towards an achievable goal. Deliberately reducing the possibly of achieving it however demotivates teams.

@pollen8 @InfoSum I miss playing badminton with InfoSum folk. Haven't picked up a racket since I left 😢 ... Are you still schooling them all, Rob?

It's a small world. Our new QA manager plays at my badminton club. @InfoSum will soon have enough of us for a team.

@neilmcer By not parsing many ints?

I'm sure a mathematician would tell me it wasn't, but it sure felt very random to bump into a work colleague at Treetops Adventure on the Central Coast, 100km from the office.