Impala is rather nice, as is Kudu.

On the bright side the new version of Doom is released today! Good luck with the exam.

Don't think I want to see that one.

Sweeny Todd, Buns of Wrath

Joan Murt wrote:

Should I exorcise the computer?

Absolutely, Cast thee out thy children of Microsoft and allow the spirit of Ubuntu to thrive

And the fake tax refunds, had one that looked very much like an HMRC mail, but they don't send attachments.

ninja agile - agile, but the company has an aversion to any agile references because 'Agile doesn't work for us' so you have to hide it.

Penguins of Madagascar

Data recovery from SSD is easy - you go to your last back up. Knowing SSD are harder to recover when they kaput you are of course more conscientious in your back up routines. :laugh:

Must be an old or bad wifi? An ac router should give you faster speeds than the achieved PLC speeds you quote. Edit - just a thought in your OP are Bits and Bytes getting confused? do you mean they get 10MB/s down or 10 Mb/s?

At least Spam's marketing team have a clear sense of humour.

Apologies if I read to much into some of your comments about directors behaviour I read it that the daily is being used a space to monitor the teams 'loading'. It does sound like the directors attitude is stinky and I would expect scrum master or agile coach to be pushing back on the directors. BTW, To me the stand up doesn't have to be at start of day so it doesn't police timeliness, I've worked in a few teams where it has middle of the day or last thing - whatever suits the team it's their meeting (and as such is as valuable, long / short or existent as the team needs). As for loading - I would expect any decent manager to understand how loading / overloading and creative thinking work - that is part of what they are paid for. Although (again) they will need some tutoring if they don't understand it.

Sounds like your scrum master and/or agile coach need to help the management along - you know understanding servant leadership, supporting the team, reading information radiators (especially if you use tfs teach them what cuflow does as well as burn down).

I agree there is definite value in stand up when a team is location split. We all know that isn't ideal, but sometimes it's necessary and a quick sync between the team just lets everyone share where we need to go. I would note it's very easy for these things to morph to being out of team control, sounds like Vunic is having this issue.

Stand up is just a team sync up, to let the team know if one of them needs to help another or if some unexpected problem hit. It's that simple, shouldn't be some form of report to managers or somewhere where anyone should feel ashamed. A good team appreciates what each and every person brings to the table because we are all different.

I thought it was software company that started the issue? i.e. Kik messenger, used some heavy handed lawyers to stop the use of kik as a name in another software project. NPM folded under the legal challenge and removed the kik code so the user nuked all of his NPM stuff including left pad.

Confluence over sharepoint any time. Sharepoint is a great doc store, but it's wiki features are pants.

I've tried them and not keen, I have a block of sabatiers, but my 'me only' (i.e. wife and kids don't touch them) knives are pampered chef ones. Absolutely ace, nice weight and balance and stay sharp really well.

possibly my best ever typo!

better get Depp Thought on the case to work out what the answer is, oh whoops.