2012

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December

@sladey brilliant! (Tip: buy them in the US and send them back with brollins or ewong on their next trip, you'll save a few $$$)
@kelseyvh some teams just go through the motions of 'doing' Agile. I think having the philosophy is very important for teams to 'be' Agile.
Thinking about a roadtrip to Agile 2013 in Nashville - Raleigh Durham to Knoxville to Chattanooga to Nashville. Suggestions? Advice? Keen?
@.goldgerman hello. How many teams there? Mix of Scrum and Kanban?

November

Agile Marketing meetup. Recommended reading - behavioural economists:
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"The secret of getting started is breaking complex ... tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one." Mark Twain
Muldoon Recommended: Stagnaro Bros for grilled fish and chips. On the Santa Cruz wharf. Gold.
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@auxesis you succeeded in infecting a critical mass of people with the DevOps passion. Kudos! Wouldn't have gone anywhere if you hadn't.
@mhsutton honestly mate I prefer to be talking and listening, rather than looking at a phone. Can the app actually add value to the conf?
@_dth how good is the PO? Are they able to get stories to a similar size? Or do you forgo predictability?
Rubbish! Online shop is telling me that my email address is incorrect. Using this email 10+ years... and they know better than I do?!
@darbtx I don't see a ScrumMaster mentioned in that deck. An interesting question to raise at the next Agile marketing meetup in SF! Thanks
@_dth oh shoot, just responded to your email. Tomorrow night? Small bar near Union Square called 'Honey and ...'. I'll find the name.
@michaelneale totally random Q. Are there many (any?) tech meetups in the Blue Mountains? How often are you in Sydney for a meetup?
Great graphic and interesting read on the VC space: #ans1688061" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">quora.com/Venture-Capita…
RT @svenpet: Don't wait until your IT admin has installed your tools: Cloud helps develop more efficiently #u1L3wvgKUvclSHTc.02" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">venturebeat.com/2012/10/31/the… by @jays ...
Our neighbour trick or treating us. Look at those horns! Amazing. Happy Halloween.
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October

RT @davidu: If you don't have an increasing level of respect and admiration for your customers the more you interact with them, you're d ...
Yeah, Japan is sweet! Great to be back here. Love the attention to detail:
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Iced Cake Vodka? One taste is all it takes? All it takes to what? Suggestions welcome. I don't get it.
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we were talking about the recent spate of new startup launches that do the same thing as prior websites with a different UI/UX...
"Websites are like restaurants: people are fickle, make a big splash to get visits then sell and move on to the next one" - @OrganicSydney
RT @johnnywey: Bitbucket is Github for Hipsters. "Oh, you use Github for Git? I use Bitbucket but you've probably never heard of it."
RT @jameshatherly: When that code you just spent an hour refactoring has no tests written for it… yeah, that. Yeah, I know - should ha ...
Very loud. Music videos via Vimeo on Apple TV, care of some stupidly large stereo (Onkyo and Polk). Damn, I love technology!
If you have any GreenHopper questions hop on this Hangout: ow.ly/efPOw We'll be answering questions for the next 60 minutes. Cheers

September

SF ballpark has an exhibit on Australia. Been a while since Lake Eyre has been flooded I think...
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What a brilliant evening with the SF Aussies. Swans won - smashing! Topped it off with a burrito, SF Mex style - love it.
We're at 4th St Bar and Grill. It ain't the MCG... Though they do have meat pies and Boags. So, watching the grand final in SF is still #win
C'mon Swannies! Heading down to meet up with the other Aussies at 4th St B&G.
Just to follow that. It is okay if you want to be Waterfall. I don't mind. Really I don't. Just don't call yourselves 'Agile'.
Okay, now I am mad. Yet another ScrumBut team to deal with. No, that is not Agile! Call it what it is - Waterfall!!! Gees...
@jordi9 You can start the sprint and then edit the start date. This will show up as scope change on the chart. Why do the times differ?
Just landed in SFO. Swans to play Hawthorn in the Grand Final on the 29th. Where does one watch the game live?
On 10.8 I'm having to 'killall -KILL Dock' at least once a day to get Cmd-Tab working for all Apps. Anyone else seeing this?
"I find that the vast majority of organizations are still trying to do too much stuff, and thus find themselves thrashing." - @mpoppendieck
RT @cgosimon: If you're obsessing over velocity & story points, then Working Software probably isn't your primary measure of progres ...
"there won't be mushroom in your tummy for more" she says, after my second plate. Mush-room. Much room. Oh @organicsydney, well played!

August

Playing around with dictation on OS X 10.8 - bloody good stuff really. I seem to be the only Siri user I know, now add dictation to the mix.
@jimewel great post, my only suggestion is to use Fibonacci for story points - 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, etc. Less argument over abs #, less like hours
RT @KMHobbie: After every success, crisis, problem, failure, ask "what did I learn"? You'll prevent the problem next time and your life ...
I am a fan of this bands poster, very neat. They are touring AU too, unfortunately not when I am in town...
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Wonderful keynote by Sunita, the Chief Dreamer, at #agile2012. I love this conference. Always great fun and a fantastic place to learn!
RT @Ultraman: Been to many Non UX stage leadership and product sessions and they are ALL basically talking about how #UX is vital to suc ...
Arrived at #agile2012. The Gaylord Texan is even bigger than the hotel in Salt Lake City last year. Everything is bigger in Texas.
SFO, here I come, next stop Dallas for #agile2012 (advance party). See you soon folks, it's going to be a brilliant week. Hot too I believe.
@da_terry or no HFT? Surely with the shift to HFT the main participants and beneficiaries are institutional investors, not ordinary folks?

July

Best form email I have seen today... "Hi {{lead.First Name:default=-}},".
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RT @schwentker: Lit Motors: ~$100k for MVP & showroom. Over one weekend 82 people (15%) put down $10k to pre order http://t.co/pXKif ...
RT @KentBeck: could we all just agree that "code freeze" is a lousy metaphor and move on? maybe call it the "increasingly terrified of c ...
@rioter you want someplace warm or cold? I would recommend Singapore if you like good food an like it hot. Stay in Little India.

June

RT @slashdot: Cloud9 IDE’s new features, including real-time collaboration, help bring the power of the cloud to devs. (SlashCloud) http ...
@auxesis we've already been through a similar fork in the US - middle class regressing against upper class. Homeless have little safety net.
@hascode - you rock mate, the HTTP Workflow Request Function for JIRA is simply awesome! I'll blog my usage soon. Until then, HUGE +1!
Just had a pulled pork sandwich at the @atlassian Spring Fling. Back to work now. Then SFSESG meetup tonight. Life is grand.
How do these folks track effectiveness of their ad? They are in IT and do SEO. So why no custom URL to track leads?
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RT @mhsutton: Stepping out of your comfort zone is as much about finding new levels of comfort as about challenging oneself.
Customer discovery over static prediction. Sounds like Lean Startup talk. At #sprint0 on Agile Marketing.
@gillespeterson mate, I love hearing the chats when you've got a stellar person who is articulate. Thanks for the intro to Michael Kiwanuka.
@doctorow Couldn't find a FAQ for this. When is your next novel due? You're writing one, right? Please say yes.
RT @hkanji: US military has decided to give NASA two telescopes as big as, and even more powerful than, the Hubble Space Telescope http: ...

May

#Summit12 is about to kick off for day one sessions. If you're part of an Agile team find a GreenHopper Guru today and say hello.
Reminder to #Summit12 training day attendees - we are at the Hilton today. Corner O'Farrell and Taylor. Just up from Powell St BART.
Tomorrow is the first day of #summit12 - we're kicking off with Bamboo and Bonfire training, then an Agile training session. See you there!
@jrmehle if you are keen to give detailed feedback use the "Give GreenHopper Feedback" button in the top right. It goes straight to the team
RT @clepetit: Agile methodology in a Support environment? It works a charm. I'll be talking about this at Atlassian Summit: http://t.co ...
Gearing up for SF StartUp ProductTalks. Wondering whether we will see a full complement given the weather. Fingers crossed.
Hello SF, are you looking for a manual & automated tester to join your team? A mate is looking to relocate. They know SaaS. Ping me.

April

QOTD from @ranwardo ~ When mgmt is not on board with Agile, they create high interrupt environments and can prevent Agile from scaling.
RT @bitbucket: SF Mayor Ed Lee declares today "Atlassian Day"! Thanks to everyone who's coming to celebrate our 10 year party tonight ht ...
RT @atlassian: Tonight our SF office is celebrating our 10th anniversary. Want to be a part of the next 10 years? We're hiring! http://t ...
Any meetups in SF looking for space? Hit me up and I'll help host. I prefer Wednesday nights / DevOps / Agile / Ruby / Testing.
I'm calling SF Product Talk for April a success - writeup to follow. Looking forward to May!
Great to hear @sydneyswans won last night. Haven't found a way to watch live yet from SF. Dad is a champion - sends through live updates.
RT @jeffpatton: Pondering quote I just read: "think more like your customers, less like your competitors" - pleasantly counterintuitive

March

The most sensible comment on the whole "Agile is a Sham" blog post is this one: #comment-478424153" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/200543421… (don't waste time reading the rest)
@flysupport your site on iOS keeps redirecting back to the ticket selection page when I press Get Tickets. Starts the search, no error. Help
Seeking a ride to SVPCamp tomorrow morning at 7am from 18th & S Van Ness. Happy to share product crisis stories and fuel costs. #svpcamp
Two adults seeking a ride to SVPCamp tomorrow morning at 7am from 18th & S Van Ness. Happy to share product crisis stories and fuel costs.
Thoroughly enjoying the read : What the Dog Saw - Malcolm Gladwell (just about to read Criminal Profiling Made Easy).

February

@jroper OMG. I must meet this man. I am in JSON heaven at present, just stuck at the Ruby layer and trying to push it to the frontend.
Atlassian FedEx19 in SF: final few hours and I need JS skills. Anyone care to pair for the morning on a little project?
I have two Chromes, one Safari and one Firefox open. All told about 60 tabs. Tab-zero seems a long way away tonight...
Coming to the SF AtlassianUG tomorrow night? I'll have the laptop, if you want a sneak peak at the next GreenHopper release.

January

Giant City Bike for sale, 3yo, 8 speed hub. Pick up from Cammeray tomorrow. $880 ono.
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4 minutes of automated menus and ads just to get into the queue to wait for an @optus representative. Could at least have targeted ads...