Gerald Ho

Failed guitarist, half-successful agile dev/PM, fixie rider, dad, husband, @Pluralsight author, investor in eternity

[Allen Holub. https://linkedIn.com/in/allenholub @allenholub]

I see no value in timeboxed "increments." Make the stories small and work on them until they're done, then work on the next one. I think the whole notion of a Sprint is one of the reasons Scrum (as usually practiced) is an utter failure—too much time is spent managing the Sprint and not enough time working. I see nothing good in a "timebox" or other artificial deadline. Motivate people by creating a great workplace, putting people first, and creating a culture of collaboration, respect, and pride in one's work. No need to bludgeon anybody with a timebox.

[Gerald Ho @gezzahead]

accenture, @thomasclaudiush ?!

[Gerald Ho @gezzahead]

@clemensv @thomasclaudiush Mine was also pretty poor but it’s amazing how you can get used to it.. was a fun challenge, somehow 😃

[Gerald Ho @gezzahead]

@thomasclaudiush @clemensv Yes indeed! Although in the past I have also used a regular symmetrical mouse and switched hands. Mouse use also impacts the shoulder and back..

[Gerald Ho @gezzahead]

Hey @flumserberg we paid heaps for a season ticket but still need to pay for 2 hours of night skiing on 1 piste? Seems more like #flumserberggreed not #flumserberglove 🤔

[Gerald Ho @gezzahead]

@V_Source Haha awesome! Happy new year to you too! Hope you are rocking like always!

[Gerald Ho @gezzahead]

@thomasclaudiush Good thanks! Bought a house so trying to sort out 8 years + 3 kids worth of junk... 😅

[Gerald Ho @gezzahead]

Awesome you are on fire! You will match Troy Hunt before long 😀

[Thomas Claudius Huber @thomasclaudiush]

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[Gerald Ho @gezzahead]

Oh boy, how true this is..

[Gerald Ho @gezzahead]

@ChrisHowles Hang in there!!

[Gerald Ho @gezzahead]

@ChrisHowles Oh wow and I am a convert to the barefoot running movement... 😲 I suppose it doesn’t work everywhere.. or some are tougher than others 😬

[Gerald Ho @gezzahead]

@ofraski If they use such simplistic assessments then you’re better off not working for em...

[Gerald Ho @gezzahead]

Are you an agile coach who can code? Or do you know someone who is? Come join my team in beautiful Basel, Switzerland for a year to help with the agile transformation both within the team and hopefully across the organisation!

[Gerald Ho @gezzahead]

@ChrisHowles Oh man that's rough. In Switzerland you can look up a person's address on the internet from their number plate, but I guess if that existed where you are there would be a mob showing up... 🧐

[Gerald Ho @gezzahead]

@kofisarfo University of New South Wales!

[Gerald Ho @gezzahead]

I never realised how great my first year uni computing teacher was when he made us learn Haskell... And that was before the renaissance of functional!

[Michael Feathers @mfeathers]

@kubukoz If I wrote the book today I’d call it Working Effectively with Object-Oriented Code.

[Gerald Ho @gezzahead]

@brayra2001 @ChrisHowles Yes indeed there's a long -God willing- race to be run. Hope this caffeine-filled stint is just a short leg! Last week I was in bed literally for 3 days straight from a virus and when something like that happens you just have no choice

[Gerald Ho @gezzahead]

Big thanks to @AgileDave for the last two days of CSM training at my org. Sooo much more than just CSM training but a vision for scrum masters to be agile coaches changing the org for better. Let's hope that's what happens!

[Gerald Ho @gezzahead]

And there's nothing like seeing the appalling performance of it to bring him/her back down to earth 😅

[Gerald Ho @gezzahead]

There's nothing like getting a crazily-complex RegEx to work to make a developer feel like a ninja 😎