Robert Benefield

@sf105 That is usually the first retort I hear from the team while they are applying the racing stripes

Sometimes a project feels like a racing team that is so busy fussing over the grip of the tires and the car's drag ratio that no one has bothered to notice the problem with strapping a farm goat into the driver's seat #situational_awareness

@JoshuaKerievsky I encountered something recently that is even more spectacularly dysfunctional than that. Someday (when I can outline it) it will make for a great story explaining exactly how not to design a delivery approach. I feel for the poor developers who have had to face it.

What I read in an RFP today: "Deliver at least 200 Story points per iteration (A Story Point is equal to about 1 developers’ day of work, the calculation assumes a developer will deliver 8 story points of development per two-week iteration)."

@matthewpskelton @jeffsussna @TeamTopologies You mean that isn't "platform engineering at work"? 😉

@jeffsussna @TeamTopologies Is the book acting as a kind of platform? 🤔

@duncan I think I've seen that expression on you at least once. You were at Sun at the time, which says it all.

@otolithe @duncan I had that happen with a certain airline recently. They asked for feedback in email AND text before I left for the airport and then while transferring between flights

@duncan I’ve recently had a hotel email ask me for feedback on my stay BEFORE I had even arrived…

@mipsytipsy As for Bill Gates being in M$ code, I got to see his antics first hand early on in my career (oddly enough only a couple of years before I met Charity). The intimidation/fear it usually fostered was NOT healthy.

@mipsytipsy I think it is good for CTOs to know the state of the code base (to a point), but they should always avoid writing/committing into it. Most miss the potential risk of awareness/miscommunication gaps and (even if only perceived) power dynamic fears

when you see someone post a talk about why it's important for CTOs to keep their hands in the code, and you flash back to all the drama and chaos and RAGE you used to hear about whenever that CTO went fucking around in the code 🐒🤐

DevOps isn't bad, just most interpretations out there of it are leandevops.com/the-confusion-…

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@matthewpskelton What I failed to mention is that this happened after I saw and mentioned my concerns of there being an exposed shutoff button. I was accused of being a "typical overly paranoid American" 🤠

@leandevops Are you sure you're not confusing that with a Tom Cruise movie? 🤪

Put that in your threat model 🤓

@matthewpskelton A more amusing threat was the "unsecured server cabinet rolling into the unprotected emergency facility shutoff button" one. As with writing software, always look around beyond the "happy path" to see what hazards you might have just enabled

My long awaited book is finally off the the presses! Yay! It was a hard but worthy challenge, but now I am ready for my next challenge.

@duncan Ah, the joys of the regional appstores. We fall foul of that all the time with our devices (US/UK/PT and some DE). It is a real problem, esp when you genuinely need certain apps.

@testobsessed I always find it fascinating that so few leader/manager types truly grasp the importance of motivation, or the need for objective/target outcome & progress clarity. *sigh*... I need to start blogging again

@sf105 @timeshighered I had something similar happen. I dreaded facing them even when I had my ILR. It only stopped when I got a UK passport

@ChrisAnnODell Let me see if I can fit it in. It would be great to have fun with folks like @jezhumble again ;)

Must find time to finish book. So close :(

@botchagalupe @allspaw I am glad to see our February discussion about situational awareness still has @mpoppendieck intrigued! Very happy!