Thursday, 28 January 2021

Mistakeholder Meeting

When the product Owner turns to you and grins and says "I reckon we can wing this one"...

Monday, 9 March 2020

Fansplaining

"Ah, I think you mean mansplaining: mansplaining is a portmanteau to describe overbearing men stating a point of fact to people with the presumption that the audience are ignorant or uninformed".. 

I'd say mansplainers are fansplainers, fans of something specific, and here is the usefulness- what are they a fan of? Being right? Fans of belittling women or foreigners? Or genuine fans of a topic which temporarily blinds them to social courtesy? 

Thursday, 6 September 2018

Stragedy

A stragedy is a long term activity for a large group of people, it has vision and a mission, some funding but the core values have been eaten by worms leaving only buzzwords or the measurements of success are missing so it's relevance will disappear much like a kite with a busted string.

Saturday, 12 May 2018

Isntstance

That in-house service that no longer has a team or owner, but persists for nearly a decade due to a clerical oversight.

Wednesday, 25 October 2017

Woek

Every so often you might think "it's not really enough to survive" - you've been doing woek

Saturday, 14 October 2017

U.S.U.A.L

You work on an Agile team, your boss totally got it, he uses USUAL management practices: u shut up and listen.

Tuesday, 31 January 2017

1-2-1-way

A catch up that doesn't have that comfortable reciprocity.