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Remote: Office Not Required (74/256)

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May 02, 2017 at 02:05PM

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Remote: Office Not Required, by David Heinemeier Hansson & Jason Fried.

I’m at the part called “Dealing with Excuses” where the authors trot out the excuses companies make for not going remote, and they ring true–I have heard them all. They all boil down to a lack of trust and with that, fear.

Some bits that really stand out as answers to familiar refrains:

False equality benefits nobody.

Why force everyone in the organization to work the same way?  [. . .] Different jobs, different requirements. People get that.

If people really want to play video games or surf the web all day, they’re perfectly capable of doing so from their desks at the office.

Big businesses love to look at what each other is doing too. But if you hide in the herd, you’re not likely to get ahead of the pack.

I’m looking forward to the next section, “How to Collaborate Remotely”. My boyfriend’s department recently went 100% remote after a reduction in force made their office space obsolete. They have had some bumpy days these past two weeks and I’m interested to see if anything in the next section would be helpful advice for them.

CSM training is in less than a month…

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CSM training is in less than a month!!!!!!
I signed up for the January 17-18 Certified Scrum Master training.  I am so excited to get training with the renowned Bob Hartman of Agile for All. After the first day of training there is a meetup with South Florida Agile Association about “Responsibilit­y, Delegation and Empowerment” by Bob Hartman as well, This two days will be a total immersion in Agile and Scrum.

In the meantime, I have been reading two books:

  1. Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time by Jeff Sutherland (almost done)

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    Scrum – The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time by Jeff Sutherland and J.J. Sutherland
  2. Exploring Scrum: the Fundamentals by Dan Rawsthorne and Doug Shimp.
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    Exploring Scrum: the Fundamentals by Dan Rawsthorne Doug Shimp

    One of the authors of this book, Dan Rawsthorne, gave a talk at IT Palooza this year about scaling agile. If you missed it, check out his slides to get a flavor of his well received talk.thescalingproblem_danrawsthorne

Saturday Coding Club and Managing for Happiness

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Work Log 7/30/16

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During my Coursera “HTML, CSS & Javascript” time at Saturday Coding Club, I learned about different things you can do with ordered lists, such as starting with a particular number, reversing the number count (ex: 100—>1), ordering your list with letters instead of numbers. I learned about lists before, but not these interesting and useful details.
Also learned about audio and video elements. Audio elements and video elements, which I probably will not use anytime soon as I find audio on webpages quite annoying, are quite easy to implement. I may try it out just for kicks.

I made some changes to my github page and added a private repository for my pet project, MilkMatch. Now all I have to do is learn how to make it. I am in the process of listing the requirements and nice-to-haves for the apps. I checked out OnlyTheBreast, which differs in that women there are offering to sell milk not share milk. They also offer breastmilk for individuals who are not babies. My app would be for peer-to-peer milksharing as advocated by Human Milk for Human Babies, not the selling of milk. Even so, I was not impressed with the set-up of this page. It is not user-friendly. I can’t filter for what I’m looking for or for what I have to offer.

About last night . .  .

The Jurgen Appello meetup with South Florida Agile Association was in a word . .  . awesome. He is very personable funny but also good at conveying concepts in a way that is easy-to-understand and remember. I was particularly impressed with his idea of peer-to-peer bonuses. I think something like that could really work and lift spirits. It kills the sense of entitlement while encouraging collaboration and teamwork.
A great visual sketchnote from someone who saw his Agile 2016 talk in Atlanta . . .

After the talk I ordered his book, Managing for Happiness from Amazon. Can’t wait to get it this Thursday. Jurgen has very helpfully posted the slide decks from his recent talks so I can keep his ideas top of mind by reviewing them. He also gave a great TEDx talk about the ideas in his book.

Today I Learned

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Work and Fun Log 7/29/16

Learned about the existence of HTML editors, such as Tiny MCE, that allow you to complement your learning of HTML. It is important that after you see the code that is generated by your copy and formatting that you dig through it to see what it does so you can actually learn from it. Learned about this from Coursera course I am auditing, “HTML, CSS and Javascript” from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Tonight I am going to a meetup with the South Florida Agile Association. It has 120 people signed up and many more on the wait list, all anxious to hear the author of Management 3.0, Jurgen Appelo. His new book is Managing for Happiness and he will be signing copies of that book as well. I am excited to see him speak and also get a chance to see some of the people I have met at previous meetups. It will be at the Ultimate Software office in Weston so I am also excited to see what an “agile workspace” looks like.

http://www.meetup.com/South-Florida-Agile-Association/

 

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