Beware: if you don’t have a well-ordered backlog, your frAgile release planning will look something like this:
Release planning
Category: Humor
Know your domain
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Autocorrect
Autocorrect of the day: Ansible → Zanzibar
IaaSaaS
IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions provisions scalable VMware virtualization environments at the click of a button. You could say that we provision dedicated IaaS environments for you.
Which makes IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions a kind of IaaSaaS.
Hit List
IBM’s Verse email solution has a feature that dynamically displays your most frequently emailed contacts.
I call it my “chain letter hit list.” If I were going to send a chain letter, these are the folks that would receive it:
As you may have guessed from recent posts, my job responsibilities have shifted from a focus on PureApplication to a focus on IBM’s Cloud for VMware solutions. My “hit list” has also shifted to this new group of folks that I’m privileged and excited to work with.
Oh, and I promise not to send anyone a chain letter.
Simplicity
I recently witnessed this section heading in a lengthy document:
In context the section title makes perfect sense, and the number sequence is aesthetically quite pleasing. (I confess I searched, in vain, for section 3.2.1 “Contact.”) Yet I still had the feeling of non QED.
Gremlins
Software developers are too quick, I think, to blame unexplained bugs on a random memory overlay.
By the same token, hardware folks are, I think, too quick to blame gremlins.
However, after seeing incontrovertible evidence, I had to beg our lab team’s forgiveness the other day for having doubted them:
Khanban
Wat
If you’ve seen this lightning talk before, I’m sure you’ll appreciate being reminded. If you haven’t seen it yet, you need to! Click through to the site, then play the video:
Siri
Malapropism of the day:
Scott: Play “Ascending”
Siri: Playing “Sinking”
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