Virginia Toombs

Gardener, mummy, agile lead

[Virginia Toombs @ToombsVirginia]

@TranslinkMetro no sign of 18.17 4D again?? Why??? Multiple 5A Braniel buses go past🙄

[Virginia Toombs @ToombsVirginia]

@TranslinkMetro Does this include the 4D @ 17.47 which hasn't turned up again?

[Carl Vellotti 🥞 @carlvellotti]

target audience

[Noah Kagan @noahkagan]

The 3 stages of career development:

1. I want to be in the meeting
2. I want to run the meeting
3. I want to avoid meetings

[Carl Vellotti 🥞 @carlvellotti]

Every engineer complains about tech debt.

If you're not technical, these complaints can be hard to understand.

Use this cheat sheet to help you:
1️⃣ Identify which type your team is facing
2️⃣ Have a productive conversation with your engineers

[Carl Vellotti 🥞 @carlvellotti]

Many people confuse OKRs and KPIs

They're both about measuring against goals, so what's the difference?

I love this extremely tactical 1-pager:

[Carl Vellotti 🥞 @carlvellotti]

Friendly reminder:

Your monthly metrics will be down ~7% in February because leap year February is ~7% shorter than January.

Please do not contact your data team about it.

[RC deWinter @RCdeWinter]

A grammar book walks into a bar

* An Oxford comma walks into a bar, where it spends the evening watching the television, getting drunk, and smoking cigars.

* A dangling participle walks into a bar. Enjoying a cocktail and chatting with the bartender, the evening passes pleasantly.

* A bar was walked into by the passive voice.
* An oxymoron walked into a bar, and the silence was deafening.
* Two quotation marks walk into a “bar.”
*A malapropism walks into a bar, looking for all intents and purposes like a wolf in cheap clothing, muttering epitaphs and casting dispersions on his magnificent other, who takes him for granite.
* Hyperbole totally rips into this insane bar and absolutely destroys everything.
* A question mark walks into a bar?
* A non sequitur walks into a bar.
In a strong wind, even turkeys can fly. * Papyrus and Comic Sans walk into a bar. The bartender says, "Get out -- we don't serve your type."
* A mixed metaphor walks into a bar, seeing the handwriting on the wall but hoping to nip it in the bud.
* A comma splice walks into a bar, it has a drink and then leaves.
* Three intransitive verbs walk into a bar. They sit. They converse. They depart.
* A synonym strolls into a tavern.
* At the end of the day, a cliché walks into a bar -- fresh as a daisy, cute as a button, and sharp as a tack.
* A run-on sentence walks into a bar it starts flirting. With a cute little sentence fragment.
* Falling slowly, softly falling, the chiasmus collapses to the bar floor.
* A figure of speech literally walks into a bar and ends up getting figuratively hammered.
* An allusion walks into a bar, despite the fact that alcohol is its Achilles heel.
* The subjunctive would have walked into a bar, had it only known.
* A misplaced modifier walks into a bar owned by a man with a glass eye named Ralph.
* The past, present, and future walked into a bar. It was tense.
* A dyslexic walks into a bra.
* A verb walks into a bar, sees a beautiful noun, and suggests they conjugate. The noun declines.
* A simile walks into a bar, as parched as a desert.
* A gerund and an infinitive walk into a bar, drinking to forget.
* A hyphenated word and a non-hyphenated word walk into a bar and the bartender nearly chokes on the irony .
– Jill Thomas Doyle

[Virginia Toombs @ToombsVirginia]

😂

[Ashley Beauchamp @ashbeauchamp]

Parcel delivery firm DPD have replaced their customer service chat with an AI robot thing. It’s utterly useless at answering any queries, and when asked, it happily produced a poem about how terrible they are as a company. It also swore at me. 😂

[Chris Hewitt @ChrisHewitt]

I just found out about recency bias, and I’d have to say that out of all the biases, it’s my favourite.

[Virginia Toombs @ToombsVirginia]

@ReidWeb Ended up getting the glider and getting soaked too!! That coupled with translink strike next weekend and I'm about done with our bus service 😒

[Virginia Toombs @ToombsVirginia]

@TranslinkMetro second time this week the 4D bus from Donegall Sq East just hasn't turned up. A crowd of people here waiting for it at 3.50pm, no sign 😠

[Dave Farley @davefarley77]

I recently talked about User Stories on my YouTube channel, and got asked by several people about how I would deal with "Back End Stories", so here is a thread User stories for "Back End" vs User stories for "Front End"
a #Thread

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[Virginia Toombs @ToombsVirginia]

This is absolutely brilliant https://t.co/PnY0swMUlC

[Carl Vellotti 🥞 @carlvellotti]

I like this breakdown of different types of PMs.

So far I've only been a Core PM.

At some point in my career I definitely want to try Growth.

[Jasper Polak @polak_jasper]

4 rules I swear by:

1. Lead people, manage work
2. You need focus, not more capacity
3. If you can't explain it, you don't understand it
4. Without upfront expectations, you can't give feedback

[Ant Murphy @ant_murphy]

Just bc it comes up a lot:

Teaching vs mentoring vs coaching

It's all a spectrum & you float between. Diff hats with diff purpose.

Some might limited themselves to only operating in one spot on the spectrum but the best coaches/mentors/teachers/etc I've met float up and down.

[Parv @ParvSondhi]

A handy product management primer on all key concepts one needs to be aware of

From ideation ➡️ launch👇

[Virginia Toombs @ToombsVirginia]

@hiler88 Well done you guys!!!!!

[Charity Majors @mipsytipsy]

Many new engineering managers come to the job full of frustration at the shitty management they have endured and/or witnessed, and determined not to inflict the same shit on their teams.

And they don't! 💕

Instead, they make new mistakes...like these.

https://t.co/DFnzXYaM4B