I remember this place! Feels like it’s been years since I joined. 🤦🏼‍♂️

Ruin a Beatles song:

Strawberry Jam Forever

Also I look back at my thinking in the past and how much I’ve grown/learned/improved over that timeframe.

My reply would have been, “My risk appetite is low. If your risk appetite is great, and you’re fine with signing-off on any potential monetary, legal, repetitional etc damage, we can ship it right now.”

(and sometimes that’s actually the right call, especially if the risk of not shipping is higher)

Agreed with everyone; quarterly planning can serve as a great high-level guide to the direction the business or teams want to head in, and to prioritise focus areas, but estimating is often pointless.

👋🏻

This TBH. Especially coupled with Nicole van see Hoeven’s excellent YouTube videos on structure, plugins etc.

One of the most important I feel is Open-mindedness. That opens up so much for learning, improving, experimenting, sharing, and appreciating other roles and how they work together.

Oh wow. Talk about an eye for a photo. Bravo! 👏🏻👏🏻

“Can you tell me how to…”
“Yes, I can…”
“Will you show me how to…”
“Yes, I will…”
“When can you show me how to….”
“When would you like me to show you?”
“Add a request to my personal Jira board and ask me to sort out a timeslot. If my manager prioritised it I’ll be in touch…” 😡

It's taken me literally *years* to get out of this horrible habit (it's always "folks" now for me), and other stupid phrases like "resources" when talking about actual people. I try to correct people, too nowadays as there's literally no need for it.

*so* painful TBH. It was worse than the pneumonia itself when I had it a few years back. 🤦🏼‍♂️