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Written by Jeff Grigg on 2025-01-20 at 15:28

Inspirational insights on JIRA:

https://ifuckinghatejira.com/

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Written by Jeff Grigg on 2025-01-07 at 23:45

@VeroniqueB99

It's this guy, James Butler:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4PjI5nIaRh7mP3qyR3PFI_ThN4uemhNQ

By day he runs a septic pumping, inspection, repair company.

He said he got into the business because one of his employees was falsely accused by his (self-destructively) "crazy girlfriend."

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Shared by Jeff Grigg on 2024-12-27 at 12:52 (original by ploum)

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Written by Jeff Grigg on 2024-12-17 at 15:06

It's not that measurement is bad. The image emphasized in the article's opening (but never mentioned) is a good example of standard measurements enabling building compatible structures with plumbing, and replacing equipment with similar versions. Standards and measures enable planning, reuse, efficiency, and support the creation of entire industries and specializations.

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Written by Jeff Grigg on 2024-12-17 at 14:45

“By the time it can be captured in numbers, it’s too late.” (Peter Drucker, The Effective Executive, p17)

“Of course, visible figures are important but he that would run his company on visible figures alone will in time have neither company nor figures. The most important figures are unknown and unknowable but successful management must nevertheless take account of them…

…It is wrong to suppose that if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it – a costly myth.” (Deming)

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Written by Jeff Grigg on 2024-12-17 at 14:44

Those darned Japanese, with their “Total Quality Management” process! [originally from the US] They just keep improving their processes, and reaping the benefits, without any kind of professional responsible bureaucratic gatekeeping process based on tedious time-consuming costly fictitious seemingly objective cost-benefit analysis, available only to upper management, due to the substantial resources it requires and consumes, and used mostly to bolster and reinforce their biases. It's so unfair!

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Written by Jeff Grigg on 2024-12-15 at 14:06

The tip for leaders is to keep in mind that “they” (the workers) do NOT already know everything that was conveyed to you in management level meetings.

Their short posting requires membership, which is free. But I'm sure that the 50 second audio and three short paragraph transcript are copyrighted.

https://canopy.is/training_tips/dfa2e9cdb0930

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Written by Jeff Grigg on 2024-12-15 at 14:04

Claire Lew of Canopy [originally was “Know Your Team”] daily tip for Friday, December 13th was “They already know,” pointing out that managers / leaders often make the [very human] assumption that their subordinates know everything that they know. But the nature of typical corporate hierarchy pushes information and decisions “up” to the bosses, and restricts communication “down” to the people doing the work.

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Written by Jeff Grigg on 2024-11-22 at 13:47

“Each [programmer] could be functioning more efficiently, with greater satisfaction, if he and his manager would only learn to look upon the programmer as a human being, rather than another one of the machines.”

— Gerald Weinberg, 1971

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Shared by Jeff Grigg on 2024-10-07 at 15:45 (original by Cory Doctorow)

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Shared by Jeff Grigg on 2024-06-10 at 12:05 (original by ploum)

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Written by Jeff Grigg on 2024-05-11 at 23:42

"How quiet is it?"

… a "one minute" management tip from "Canopy" (formally "Know Your Team")

But my reaction is …

Often, other team members have useful suggestions and ideas, but a few people "dominate the discussion" — by literally competing for control of time to speak. (us Americans 🙄)

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Shared by Jeff Grigg on 2024-04-28 at 17:56 (original by Cory Doctorow)

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Shared by Jeff Grigg on 2024-03-26 at 21:00 (original by Cory Doctorow)

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Written by Jeff Grigg on 2024-03-13 at 00:35

The "Open-Closed Principle" is DEAD!!!

(Long live the Open-Closed Principle.

... with occasional "Off with their heads!" Revolutions.)

https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/the-openclosedopen-principle

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Written by Jeff Grigg on 2024-03-08 at 01:18

The original thread:

https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/1b8kz44/i_feel_stupid_even_after_programming_for_4_years/

(was just an image on the "ex-twitter" site)

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Written by Jeff Grigg on 2024-03-08 at 01:16

My reply:

I've only been doing this since 1976.

(when I was in junior high school)

I've often said that it's like science:

The more you know, the more you realize that you don't know. <

The first couple of years, I was pretty darned "cocksure."

Then, as my knowledge expanded, I started to recognize that vast and increasing space of all the things that I did not yet know.

The latter grows much faster than the former.

(So I know where I'll be on my death bed!)

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https://twitter.com/JeffGrigg1/status/1765908232357244962

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Written by Jeff Grigg on 2024-03-08 at 01:14

"How long do you program and still feel stupid?"

https://twitter.com/SergiiKirianov/status/1765783678540820781

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Written by Jeff Grigg on 2024-02-19 at 16:58

"Pop culture has begun to stagnate"

And has been doing so since the 1990s.

("Just what I was thinking!!!" says me.)

With Evidence!

Charts and Graphs!!!

https://www.noahpinion.blog/i/141811273/pop-culture-has-begun-to-stagnate

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Written by Jeff Grigg on 2024-02-14 at 01:49

Insightful article on the problems caused by extensive overtime:

https://hbr.org/2015/08/the-research-is-clear-long-hours-backfire-for-people-and-for-companies

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