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Comment Perspective of a Scrum Product Owner (Score 1) 293

by wishlish on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @04:53PM (#63828472) Attached to: Are Scrums a Cancer?

I started an assignment where the previous executive swore he understood scrum and agile...

Then he held hour-plus long standups.
Then he told the developers what he wanted done.
Then he talked to everyone like crap.
Then they all threatened to quit.
Then he got fired.

I asked the developers what they thought of scrum. The biggest complaint was the absolute hatred of the scrum estimation sessions. So we switched to Kanban, or actually Scrumban, since we still held one of the platforms to a two-week release schedule.

Morale improved, productivity improved, and we only lost one developer in two years.

As long as I groomed the backlog properly, life was fine.

Comment Silly question- are there any around anymore? (Score 2) 178

by wishlish on Tuesday January 28, 2014 @09:12PM (#46096405) Attached to: IBM's PC Junior Turns 30, Too

Is there a working PCjr anywhere in the world today? I know there are working Commodore 64s, for example, but is there a working PCjr anywhere in America right now?

(I know, silly question, but think of it. I have a 20-year TV that shows no sign of stopping. Is there a working PCjr anywhere? It's not like it was ever beloved like the C64 or an Apple II...so did anyone take care of one?)

Submission + - ISP "six strikes" plan delayed (dailydot.com)

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MrSeb

on Friday July 13, 2012 @12:20PM

MrSeb writes: "Shortly, a new system in the US will allow your ISP to give you gradually sterner warnings and possible punishment if you download copyrighted material. The Copyright Alerts System (CAS) — more commonly known as the “six strikes” policy, after the number of warnings users receive — is coming. Soon. Any minute now. Really. But it’s not here yet, even though several news outlets — including CNN — said the system would go online yesterday, Thursday. Speaking to the Daily Dot, a press contact for the six strikes system says: 'We do not intend to launch until we are confident that the program is consumer friendly. We expect our implementation to begin later this year, with each of the ISPs launching at potentially overlapping but different times.' This is the second time the six strikes plan has been delayed — it was originally meant to be implemented in late 2011. The six strikes system is officially helmed by an industry coalition called the Center for Copyright Information (CCI), which was created by the MPAA and RIAA. It counts the U.S.’s five top ISPs under its umbrella: AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Verizon."

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