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jasongorman

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Software developer, trainer and mentor at Codemanship. Now run your tests.

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Yes, those seem like legit replies.

Take my money!!!

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A pretty depressing meeting with a marketing and branding consultant today who has a lot of experience in the tech industry. I'd been envisioning multiple "interfaces" to my business, tailored for multiple audiences - developers, engineering leaders, executive management, founders and investors.

We drew a real blank on how to present code craft to senior management. The key incentives are misaligned.

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@carlcm The consultant's research suggested that the C-suite generally doesn't care about the strategic view. They care about the current financial cycle, their bonus and the share price.

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When I see posts aimed at managers encouraging them to empower their dev teams, words like "let", "allow" and "give" perhaps point to the underlying problem.

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I suspect OpenAI are going to delay GPT-5's release as long as they can, and milk GPT-4 for everything they can get. I'm guessing GPT-5 will blow their growth story and pop the bubble.

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They went from GPT-1 to GPT-4, then GPT-4 Turbo, and now GPT-4o.

I'm guessing maybe that what's happening with GPT is what we saw with text-to-image generative transformers. e.g., Midjourney has pivoted to new features because improving the performance of the core model is now bringing diminishing returns.

And since neither's reliable enough for most use cases, the next A.I. winter may be upon us already.

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Reuse can come at a cost. Sure, it's duplication and "waste" for every house on my street to have their own vacuum cleaner. But I suspect sharing one between us might cause potentially bigger logistical problems.

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Search for "Certified Scrum Master" on YouTube. "When I found out there was something called 'project management' and then I found out about 'Scrum' "

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"It's called Professional Scrum Master and it costs $150".

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"I watched some videos on YouTube "

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"They're not called 'scrums' in the Scrum guide".

Really? Is that true?

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@thirstybear Someone called it "faux Scrum" because the guide doesn't call those daily 15-minute meetings "scrums". I was pretty sure it was named after them. But I haven't read the Scrum guide for more than 20 years.

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Yes, Scrum Masters. I am disrespecting you. I'm disrespecting you to the max.

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@wouterla When I look hard, I don't see a system. I see people selling a system 🙂

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Being schooled in why conversations in dev teams should be time-boxed, by the "Global Head of Agile" at a company with 1 employee. (I'm especially impressed by the certification he's given himself.)

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"When I was a developer..." Dude, we can see your CV.

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@thirstybear I don't know what would posses someone to make that claim when their CV's visible and they've obviously never been a software developer.

An Agile Coach, of course.

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"But how does it scale?" is a common question for organizational transformation initiatives. The answer is that it scales primarily via enthusiasm and learning, not via structure or framework.

Example:

Let's say the required outcome is to move 100 people over 10 kilometers. Do you:

  1. Build a juggernaut that fits 100 people 🚚 - the "framework" approach
  2. Organize a 10km fun run and train people up 🏃 - the nimble, humane approach

The 10km run is the way

#transformation #FastFlow

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@matthewskelton Or do you tell them there's free donuts 10 km away? 🙂

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Make friends and colleagues believe you're an advanced A.I. by turning the heating on full and drinking a bottle of water every time they ask you a question.

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46 million views since I watched this 7 years ago. And quite right, too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6rBK0BqL2w

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Yes, you can learn a lot looking at the code in GitHub repos. But if you really want to learn from a repo, you need to look past the latest snapshot of the code and examine its history. Software evolution's a movie, not a photo.

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On a regular basis, I see posts on social media from people who have evidently never even visited the UK claiming that London "has fallen" to "the Muslims".

Don't be fooled by this far-right propaganda. London's fine. It's the vibrant and diverse global capital it always was. There are no "no-go areas". It's a complete fabrication.

Frankly, I feel safer at night in central London than in many provincial town centres.

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@thirstybear Saw one on LinkedIn this morning with a video clip of a "Muslim" in "London" calling for "Jihad". There's nothing in the video that indicates when and where it was taken, and the "news channel" name on the microphone points to a YouTuber with 12 subscribers who hasn't posted for 6 years.

And, predictably, in the comments there's all the usual "London has fallen", "Londonistan", "no-go areas" bullshit propaganda.

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I find the word "transformation" helpful in identifying organisations where no lasting meaningful change is happening.

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