Thursday, November 14, 2019

What is SCRUM?

I've spent 15 YEARS in the trenches with SCRUM.
After going through a phase of exuberant optimism (~12 years ago) a protracted disillusionment phase phase followed.

Disillusionment gave way to a phase of bewilderment:

  • Does anyone actually know what SCRUM is?
  • Is SCRUM really a 'thing'? 
  • Is SCRUM just a word?

 Next came a phase in which I was convinced that few, if any people, know what SCRUM is. With out question, it is not even close, folks simply don't know what SCRUM is and therefore it is just a word not a 'thing'.

 I have just now, in a sudden flash of insight, realized the simple truth:

SCRUM is whatever management says it is.

Get used to it.

Thursday, November 07, 2019

Where is my C: Drive? WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) Ubuntu

cd /mnt/c
Yeah, it's that simple.

Dev Tools I've Been Using of Late


  • Azure Data Studio
    • Notebooks Rock! (See WSL and Jupyter below for sharing ideas and options)
  • Visual Studio Code
  • Visual Studio 2019
  • Windows Subsystem for Linux (Ubuntu)
    • Convert .ipynb files (notebooks) created in Azure Data Studio to HTML, PDF etc.
      • jupyter
      • nbconvert
      • Tex
  • Git (command line only)
  • Edge Browser (a lot of promising new features, esp. Tab Mgt.)
    • Perhaps more details on this later

C# Sucks!

JK!! Seriously, though, somewhere around C#-3 we should have inculcated ourselves with the question: "Does 'CAN' == 'SHOULD...