Posts by jon battle

I see there's a proposal to encourage new-build residential homes to have FTTP built-in, and economic benefits are claimed. Surely there would be far more economic benefit from mandating all-electric heat-engine central heating systems in new-build homes? And across the whole country this would dramatically improve carbon footprint and give substantial job creation. Besides, we'd all be cozier in our homes. Don't get me wrong, I'm not disputing that we all need more bandwidth, I'm just saying that if you're mandating policy for new-build homes, heat-engines would be #1 benefit and better fibre # >1.

Agile/Scrum becomes the cuckoo in the team's nest

So much time, money and sweat goes in to Agile/Scrumming that everyone gets too fatigued to do the real work of keeping the effort properly guided. "Real" leadership is crowded out. I've never seen Agile/Scrum consume less than 20% of a team's time. That may be an understatement too. In this article and elsewhere it has been widely commented that if stand-up happens at 10am, everyone's "flow" is utterly ruined thru the whole morning. You might end up diluting your resources by half!?! I've noticed an uncanny trend, that "where Scrum is, real software project management isn't". The Scrum rubric actually alludes to this, something like "Now you have a scrum-master, you don't need a project manager anymore", which is demonstrably nonsense.

Comments about comments

- Hmm I guess the theory is clear enough: if the code were self-explanatory, you wouldn't need to explain it with comments.

- But in practice, when I read zillions of lines of code, I find the guys who do zero-comments are precisely the same guys who write incomprehensible code that begs for comments.

Anon, do the SODIMMs upgrade to 4G? Really?

- if it does, thanks for telling me what the specs I saw didn't.

- svp the URL thanks