Josef Galea

Software architect interested in distributed, high throughput, low latency systems.

[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.

[Mark Camilleri @markcamilleri5]

Good morning

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[Mark Camilleri @markcamilleri5]

But @RobertAbela_MT and @muscatalex said they will keep selling passports to Russians because they do "due diligence". You are unfit for purpose and a total sham on our country.

[Josef Galea @josefgalea]

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[Josef Galea @josefgalea]

@mcac0006 I think i’ve read that you can use fn + 1 instead of F1 etc, but yeah not ideal

[Josef Galea @josefgalea]

Why it is so hard to find a #mechanical #keyboard with the same layout as #apple's International English https://t.co/n4mZ1vjGzc 😭

[Josef Galea @josefgalea]

@mcac0006 This one is pretty close. The only differences I could see are a smaller right shift, and left cmd not exactly aligned with the X): https://t.co/M7zmTfE5KP

[Josef Galea @josefgalea]

@mcac0006 Thanks Matthew. My problem is with the 4 keys in the bottom left. I really would like to have the Fn, Ctrl, Option, Cmd combo. If the Cmd button is aligned with the X, then that's a bonus.

[Josef Galea @josefgalea]

After using #go for a few years, I can feel @peter_fraedrich's pain: https://t.co/5E3JWgrLM6 #golang

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

Words that DO NOT appear in the Agile Manifesto & Principles:

sprint
backlog
product owner, scrum master
release train
story
story points
estimate
velocity
meeting
Jira
manager
productivity
utilization

What should I add to that list?

[Josef Galea @josefgalea]

I’m a Top Reader in @Pocket for 2019! See how many words I read, which articles I saved were popular, and more. https://t.co/fI7Z95YfYr #MyYearInPocket

[Josef Galea @josefgalea]

@luckymarmot Any update about that OpenAPI 3.0 importer @luckymarmot?

[Josef Galea @josefgalea]

Hey @luckymarmot, do you have any plans for an OpenAPI 3.0 importer?

[Josef Galea @josefgalea]

@luckymarmot Thanks for your reply Micha. Looking forward to this!

[Caitie McCaffrey @caitie]

One of the biggest fallacies in tech is that you can solve culture problems by writing the perfect piece of code.

[Josef Galea @josefgalea]

@PietroGrandi3D Upgrade to Catalina and you (kind of) get rid of it :)

[Josef Galea @josefgalea]

I would like to do some additional reading on tech 1-to-1s. So far the best resource I have is @skamille's The Manager's Path. What else should I be reading? Please RT #tech #leadership

[Josef Galea @josefgalea]

@HashiCorp Also, if anyone wants to work with these latest technologies, BlueLabs is #hiring a #remote #devops #engineer: https://t.co/CZ96g49l7A

[Josef Galea @josefgalea]

Finally had a chance to use the new goodies in #terraform 0.12. Really good stuff! Thanks @HashiCorp

[Rob Donoghue @rdonoghue]

Get a copy of Calibre. https://t.co/hOS0QPoAEW

I don't endorse piracy, but your moral obligation to tolerate DRM on things you've bought is nil.

(Unless you find the "you license everything" to be moral, in which case, it's impossible to steal anything anyway, so no worries.)