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don't worry...the next framework will explain it

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Manager: "What's this milestone 'Living on a prayer' ?" Me: "That's the documentation deliverable." Manager: "What's the status of that?" Me: "We're halfway there" Manager: "Why is progress so slow?" Me: "You fired Tommy" Manager: "So?" Me: "Tommy used to work on the docs"

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This is really well stated. Art is a thought process not a straight jump from “idea” to “outcome”. It means you can’t outsource the hard bits (for instance to some weird tech bro’s algorithm) without losing something crucial

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Last summer, my blog setup annoyed me once too often and I decided to build something else from scratch. I think I did just enough to let out some annoyance and then forgot about it for 6 months. Taking another look today! Some notes at neil-vass-2.com

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Worthy Read: How to Learn and Practice Product Management in a Feature Factory by John Cutler "It really is all about the reps, even if things are less than perfect." Want to grow your product management skills even in a feature factory?

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Notes from last week's Deliver Sessions, starring Holly Donohue and @jitgos.bsky.social. 2 brilliant talks, with lots of "further reading/watching" links recommended by them. I press publish as soon as I finish writing posts, please wave if anyone spots a typo before I get back to proofread this...

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If Substack is a no no, and Medium gets boos, and Wordpress is quite frankly a Frankenstein’s monster. Where too the good options now?

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I meant to write a post about last week's Deliver Sessions meetup, but got distracted - I think the office we were hosted at is on the old Granada Studios site, but thought I should quickly check before mentioning that. 21 open tabs later...

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Oh damn Prime actually published their failed chatgpt prompt in the description

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A few weeks ago I was in Liverpool for Agile in the Ether's second-ever In Real Life event. A fab day of learning, with interactive sessions from lots of community members. I've made some notes about what I learned and what I want to do more with. neil-vass.com/agile-in-the...

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The first Deliver Sessions of the year! Ready to start.

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Last call for this week's Deliver Sessions! We'll close registration Monday evening, sign up before then if you're planning to join us

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Deliver Sessions meetup is next week! Learn everything you wanted to know about strategy but were afraid to ask, in a talk from Holly Donohue Then, learn how to talk about this plus any other important but difficult topics, with a talk from @jitgos.bsky.social Read more details and sign up:

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"Produced to mathematical standards" A nice topical beer

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Agile Manchester Call for Sessions is open until 10th Feb: agilemanchester.net/call-for-ses...

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2 weeks until the next Deliver Sessions meetup in Manchester - this is a popular one, register if you'd like a spot :) These are some great topics for anyone who works in on near any software teams, whatever your role.

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Would you be interested in a talk about jargon, and: - why it’s is bad - how to avoid it - what to do when you can’t avoid it - when (and why) jargon is good (because I contain multitudes) Considering writing it for my next conference, but if the very thought sends you into a coma I’ll rethink

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#Weeknotes 443, featuring differential diagnosis, theory of constraints workshop, decarbonising user journeys, what makes a good team, taking a platform approach, adjacent possible and path dependency. rogerswannell.com/weeknotes/we...

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Deliver Sessions meetup is back! First meetup of the year will be at Booking.com's office in Manchester, UK, on 12th Feb. We have talks from Jitesh Gosai (@jitgos.bsky.social) and Holly Donohue (www.linkedin.com/in/hollydono...), and a chance to discuss with other attendees. Come along if you can!

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I thought the final boss of software testing was the organization structure, aka: management. We can go one level deeper, to the secret fifth level! Once you know, it cannot be unseen. #blog #IT #software #testing www.maaikebrinkhof.nl/the-secret-f...

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This week's Posts From Awesome Folks is here hellotacit.beehiiv.com/p/posts-from... - enjoy

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Deliver Sessions meetup is back! First meetup of the year will be at Booking.com's office in Manchester, UK, on 12th Feb. We have talks from Jitesh Gosai (@jitgos.bsky.social) and Holly Donohue (www.linkedin.com/in/hollydono...), and a chance to discuss with other attendees. Come along if you can!

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Another of my "I'm not sure anyone cares but me" blog posts :) Here, you can learn what dynamic programming is, how memoization can be used in it, how to implement that in TypeScript, and how you can make your own @decorators to make it look pretty* Is any of that interesting? Confusing? Boring?

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I'm occasionally, slowly, doing puzzles from old #AdventOfCode years - one day I'll collect the full set! Everyone needs a hobby, right? Just collected the 50th star for the 2016 puzzles, I'm very pleased :) github.com/neil-vass/ad...

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I love the variety of Old Man Yells At… reactions available in our Slack workspace. Is it a good sign when you've reached this level? #popculture #slack #grampasimpson

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Funny stuff from @ellecordova.bsky.social

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UX Scotland returns to Edinburgh in June. Call for Sessions is open: uxscotland.net/call-sessions Super Early Bird tickets are on sale until Friday: uxscotland.net/tickets

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