Joe Finnigan

Founder of @CrowdGlow. Pyrotechnician. Nerd.

[Joe Finnigan @_Joe]

@shclan87 @glasgow_clan We’ll never be back I’m afraid, they burned that bridge

[Santiago @svpino]

Scrum is a cancer.

I've been writing software for 25 years, and nothing renders a software team useless like Scrum does.

Some anecdotes:

1. They tried to convince me that Poker is a planning tool, not a game.

2. If you want to be more efficient, you must add process, not remove it. They had us attending the "ceremonies," a fancy name for a buttload of meetings: stand-ups, groomings, planning, retrospectives, and Scrum of Scrums. We spent more time talking than doing.

3. We prohibited laptops in meetings. We had to stand. We passed a ball around to keep everyone paying attention.

4. We spent more time estimating story points than writing software. Story points measure complexity, not time, but we had to decide how many story points fit in a sprint.

5. I had to use t-shirt sizes to estimate software.

6. We measured how much it cost to deliver one story point and then wrote contracts where clients paid for a package of "500 story points."

7. Management lost it when they found that 500 story points in one project weren't the same as 500 story points on another project. We had many meetings to fix this.

8. Imagine having a manager, a scrum master, a product owner, and a tech lead. You had to answer to all of them and none simultaneously.

9. We paid people who told us whether we were "burning down points" fast enough. Weren't story points about complexity instead of time? Never mind.

I believe in Agile, but this ain't agile.

We brought professional Scrum trainers. We paid people from our team to get certified. We tried Scrum this way and that other way. We spent years doing it.

The result was always the same: It didn't work.

Scrum is a cancer that will eat your development team. Scrum is not for developers; it's another tool for managers to feel they are in control.

But the best about Scrum are those who look you in the eye and tell you: "If it doesn't work for you, you are doing it wrong. Scrum is anything that works for your team."

Sure it is.

[Joe Finnigan @_Joe]

@bubnikv We're having notorization authentication errors today too. No news from Apple on a fix.

[Forger Stucky @Stuck4ger]

Wow that was amazing, @SpaceX #FalconHeavy

[Joe Finnigan @_Joe]

@MainManMiIe That was Channel 4s interviewer! Assume they asked for the footage.

[Calgie @christiancalgie]

The dream team

[Joe Lycett @joelycett]

. @trussliz omg cant believe he was also part of the anti-growth coalition babe!! SO right to get rid!!! 🙀🙀🙀🚮🚮🚮

[Joe Finnigan @_Joe]

@BrawBandHome @Tn1as Back up in REN 👍

[Joe Finnigan @_Joe]

@BrawBandHome @Tn1as Afraid not and nothing in spam either.

[Joe Finnigan @_Joe]

@BrawBandHome @Tn1as That's the 2nd outage lasting 12 hours+ in only 3 months. Emailed support earlier and no reply. Obviously a new and expanding network but I'd expect better uptime and compensation for long outages to cover 4G tethering costs to keep us being able to work.

[Santiago @svpino]

A 100% free Computer Science curriculum.

2 years' worth of content if you dedicate ~20 hrs/week.

You can go from nothing to fully proficient without spending money or going anywhere.

https://t.co/vaTqW8FLUv

[CrowdGlow @CrowdGlow]

Great to see CrowdGlow in action at the @TEA_Connect SATE Europe 2022 as a part of an amazing talk by @GeorgeLawton on the how light has been a fundamental part of celebrations for 1000s of years. What better way to bring a crowd together than with the lights from their pockets!

[Joe Finnigan @_Joe]

@SP_Justice @THE_BFA_UK Evidence part 2: https://t.co/N2xNR99paJ This is Julie Doornes' reply to the recent questions, the leader of the anti-firework group, she lives in England. None of the online consultation tools ever verify that a respondent is actually in Scotland, the data can't be trusted.

[Joe Finnigan @_Joe]

@SP_Justice @THE_BFA_UK A panel member asked for evidence that the public consultations were being answered by people from out-with Scotland. Evidence part 1: https://t.co/2HKqnJIdiI They have 27k members, ran by someone in England and has members all of the world.

[Netflix UK & Ireland @NetflixUK]

F1: DRIVE TO SURVIVE returns, 11 March. 🏁🏁🏁

[National Air and Space Museum @airandspace]

"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives." - Carl Sagan

On this day in 1990, Voyager 1 took the iconic Pale Blue Dot image.

[New York Times Opinion @nytopinion]

“Seriously I can just come out and say it? Call him a liar?” asks @JonathanPieNews, a fictional broadcast reporter created and performed by comedian Tom Walker, in a satirical video about Britain’s Prime Minister.
“God bless America.” https://t.co/Hu6Q6q8TBp

[LSi Online @lsionline]

CrowdGlow upgrades phone lighting system: UK - CrowdGlow has announced the next generation of the CrowdGlow phone lighting system which enables lighting designers to take live control of an unlimited number of phones at events.
T... https://t.co/epu7sYRGwZ

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

I wish more young people dreamed about being inventors, engineers, scientists, and entrepreneurs than influencers.