Nikki Bailey

Tech person, mostly Ops. Not very on Twitter.

[Nikki Bailey @_NikkiBailey]

@Sistah_Space I'm sorry you've got to fight to keep your space in the middle of this crisis.

I've made a donation. just fyi the link in your twitter bio seems broken - I think it's missing the 'go' from the start of gofundme?

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@mipsytipsy Obvs this doesn't apply to any random ping & needs alert msgs to be v clear. But it's been great to make fuzzy "is this actionable?" issues/convos visible outside the ops team.

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@mipsytipsy I made an "FYI, queue backlog" type alerts-that-need-tuning channel on our chat & shared w/ product owner & tech support recently. I've learned a LOT from making those metrics visible to Not On Call ppl!

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@bellebelle @tinymattresses @bibliogrrl @TeamUfYH yes! https://t.co/uWTkMTGVhS

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@b0rk like, if I took a screencap, having clicked "I learned a thing!" doesn't show any difference between "ooh, that's cool but not super relevant trivia" and "actually I don't get this system at all?". tho actually it'd probly be better just to write questions/notes of my own :)

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@b0rk I wouldn't want a score, but I wanted a way to split up answers between "I know this concept, but there was a cool bit of trivia in the explanations of the answer!" vs "I don't understand this underlying concept at all, sometime I should sit down and learn it!"

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@b0rk I wonder if that model would work at all to reframe it for ppl who want to score themselves out of ten - instead of boolean "right/wrong", let ppl categorise things as "I've explored this fully" vs "there's more context I could learn here" vs "this is totally new to me"?

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@b0rk hi! I love these, & the thought you put into teaching tech concepts :)

I noticed my answers split into three kinds - "yep, I understand this well!", "I think it's this, but I don't rly know why" and "this is totally new to me!".

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@mipsytipsy I want to learn deeper technical knowledge, & I can already do a lot of the things that seem rewarding about managing from outside it by mentoring/connecting people/owning projects

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@kchlev Sweet, thanks for the link. Hope you're keeping well!

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Hey tech conference twitter, do you have recommendations for talks/blogs/links on getting monitoring right for big heterogeneous environments?

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@BenMosior @cyetain I bet I'll reread the Wardley book and realise he did give useful definitions of data-as-component!

but asking folks to think in a new taxonomy to understand you is asking a lot, so I like the idea of translating axes based on context :)

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Thoughts from #mapcamp: @swardley maps are (v roughly) framing devices to ID & avoid undifferentiated heavy lifting. Do they work at a micro/tactical scale?

plotting: team capabilities (to run SaaS)
x-axis here: "bus risk | common knowledge | automated | abstracted" #map18

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@BenMosior @cyetain "usefully scoped units of meaning" is a great way to put that! It's tricksy, though:

- "can knowledge be commodity?"
- "what matters enough to go on a map?"

Refraining to narrow focus is trying to get past that.

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On choosing goals & anchors:

"Let's make a map. We're going to take over the world!"
"Question is, can we take over Shoreditch first"

==> achieve small, concrete things, learn, iterate, grow from there.

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Yes, this. @yoditstanton on user expectations over time at #map18

[Nikki Bailey @_NikkiBailey]

Yes, this. @yoditstanton on user expectations over time at #map18

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@monicasarbu @KatjaBudnikov Awesome sketch! Monica, I come from a v different tech background & don't wanna be a manager at the mo, so your story was interestingly new to me even tho I'm also a woman in tech. Thanks for your talk!

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@efinlay24 @LinkedIn It can be handy as an contact list for ex-colleagues, I guess?