Lev Kurts

Finishing things is more than just an exercise in tidiness or self-discipline. In many projects, a surprising amount of the best work is done in what was meant to be the final stage.

@ServiceChannel has proven that the best facilities management solutions focus less on places and more on people - learn how Atlassian Cloud supports them in this mission: bit.ly/3mkFjQp

Restrictions are lifting in New York! Consequently, more Summercon tickets at Littlefield are on sale. Thanks to everyone who got vaccinated to make this happen. eventbrite.com/e/summercon-20…

What valley company is going to be the last fogey clinging to the open office and the in-person white board crying "BUT THE MAGIC!! THE MAGIC ONLY HAPPENS HERE!!!". I love you, but my money is on Apple 😄

Inspired by a thread on HN incredulous about engineering headcount at a large software company: The biggest thing people don’t appreciate about large companies is the basic productive unit isn’t an individual it is an engineering team with about ~8 members.

I just published Corporate Socialism: The Government is Bailing Out Investors & Managers Not You link.medium.com/3h53P88H94

Many US govt. websites are giving bad advice about security at the top of their homepages. "https://" does not mean the site is legitimate or trustworthy, just that the data is encrypted in transit. Fun fact: 74% of all phishing sites now use SSL. krebsonsecurity.com/2020/03/us-gov…

We introduced 3 new features free of charge this week to help you, our customers, better manage cleaning & sanitation for #Coronavirus. We’re hosting three webinars to help you get the most from these features. Details are as follows: (1/6)

“What are we going to do to make sure this NEVER HAPPENS AGAIN?” “Also, we should come up with these actions items quickly - just throw out ideas here so I can get them into JIRA because we only have this room until 10:30am and I can see people gathering outside the door.”

I am often asked what I think about scaled agile frameworks. This slide does a good job of summing up my viewpoint, except for the last point. We need more research on how successful large companies coordinate the work of small autonomous teams to achieve larger goals.

Next at #TechGCSummit: Brain Chase from @ServiceChannel

A few asked for these slides specifically from my #monitorama talk yesterday. This is advice on what kind of incident data is useful to look at "Before" you run a chaos engineering experiment. Designing a chaos experiment is arguably the most useful part of Chaos Engineering.

i’ve deployed into prod via in-flight wifi, but this is next level

Busting your ass doing what doesn’t need to be done isn’t a strong work ethic - it’s a strong waste of time.

We’re getting ready to host #ServiceX, the facilities and operations event of the year, in Scottsdale this September! Registration is free, but as any good facilities manager knows, you can’t put a price on great experiences. Will we see you there? servicex.servicechannel.com

It can be tempting to fill your retail locations w/ bells & whistles–but fancy features can be difficult to maintain. So what elements are essential when developing a store layout? Industry experts, including our CMO, share their insights w/ @Forbes: #7661158a4ad3" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">forbes.com/sites/forbesco…

Our annual conference ServiceX is slated for September 22-24th 2019. Join us in Scottsdale, AZ for two exclusive days of learning, networking, innovation, sharing, and fun. More details here: ow.ly/Kid850uNr8s #networking #CX

@SlackHQ It's gone now, yep

@lkurts Indeed it is! 🐛Would you please reload the app 2 times and let us know if the bug is still present?

Just saw this in slack - number of unread notifications is 'true' :-) l- looks like a bug, @SlackHQ

"Why would you ever hard code <x>?" Because the world isn't perfect, mainly. You do what you have to do to get things done in the time you have to do them. Hopefully there's time to improve further. Something imperfect running today beats something perfect indefinitely later.