Teammate on most recent team gave me this parting feedback: “I learned a ton, we got lots done, our team dynamics were awesome, and I’ve never felt this kind of team feeling before.”

If your business makes software, I might be good for your business.

https://schmonz.com/snac/schmonz/p/1750949585.435936

@YvesHanoulle oooo, this sounds like my jam.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111149148080429811

Happy Friday! Time to reflect on the week.

Today’s prompt: When developing software, how many decisions do we make every day?

Some starter thoughts: https://agilein3minut.es/4

#SoftwareEngineering #EngineeringLeadership #Agile #Scrum #ExtremeProgramming #XPLives #dev

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111148793690174809

With the extremely helpful help of Ryan Latta, we quickly got

1. Unstuck
2. A GitHub access token
3. Logged into #ikiwiki
4. Clarity on what's left to do

Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR3BYww45P0&list=PLkuryjnRFclRpPiXrM4oNSY1_RJHMRcYs&index=1

Don't miss the next one (Monday 10am US/Eastern): subscribe https://www.twitch.tv/schmonzie

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111144600129197176

@deborahh 💜 I can attest, more often than not it's effortful for me to figure out with any specificity what I'm feeling. The odds are better when there's a loooooot of quiet.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111144209081541321

Time to #Twitch! Working on getting #ikiwiki authenticating to #GitHub. http://twitch.tv/schmonzie

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111143855419001856

What's a "business outcome"?

If I had to bet:

They're the emotional responses of the relevant people.

Cost and risk are used primarily as proxy metrics.

We have to lean on these proxies because we've so thoroughly devalued emotional responses in business contexts.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111143069422331599

@samir same reasons here, love it

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111142959858821083

@samir everyone please welcome "neurospicy" to my lexicon

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111142904723622543

Weekly schedule of chances to interact with me, from least to most interactive (all US/Eastern):

W pm: I'm a guest on someone's podcast

M & F am: Here's a convo-starter from Agile in 3 Minutes

M 10am & R 1pm: Live-coding at https://www.twitch.tv/schmonzie

T 12:15pm: Open office hours

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111138474078663222

Missed my office hours yesterday? Try your luck mining for sparks in this conversation with @andreagoulet and @mscottford centered on

1. How best to define #LegacyCode? (problem-framing)
2. How best to approach living with it? (solution-finding)

https://legacycoderocks.libsyn.com/defining-legacy-code-with-amitai-schleier

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111138354730221033

Just enough break in the action to get something down for #WeeklyPiano.

Here’s #Medtner’s response to his publisher requesting something more accessible for amateur pianists (i.e., me): yes, and still 100% himself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cII6lfFYeKM&list=PLkuryjnRFclTzNyap3TRgLtWxgQmbu5Am&index=48&pp=gAQBiAQB8AUB

#PianoMiniature #PianoMiniatures @classicalmusic @classicalpiano

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111138208168668060

Five participants today. If you weren't there, you missed out on some #LegacyCode rehab wisdom (and it wasn't even mine). But no biggie. Try again next week, same time and channel.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111132511062407676

Starting now. Drop in whenever you can. ^^^^^^^^

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111132345737777192

@xenotrope can you find us a 30-minute timeslot here? http://latentagility.com/link/free-call That'll be enough to get started, and then we can figure out how best to get finished.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111132043049423440

@ska I really only remembered the headline. Rereading, yeah, author's point of view is pretty uneven. (Sometimes that's an attempted meta-joke.)

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111132033755901518

Why would free advice ever be worth anything?

Sometimes it is.

"Amitai is AMAZING at bringing a sense of calm and sustainability to software teams! I can't recommend him highly enough and whoever is lucky enough to hire him will be in very good hands. ❤️"
—@andreagoulet

https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111131958589273543

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111132004765303865

Software dev not going to plan?
Developers making surprising choices?
Desirable outcomes seemingly out of reach?

You're in luck! (Wait, what?) That's right, because I'm holding office hours today.

12:15-12:45pm US/Eastern, here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89405675221?pwd=WHRueXFFbzZoaUsyTkxFV3hrOWpvQT09

Good ideas. For free.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111131958589273543

@ska ha. Kind of an opposite of https://www.theonion.com/somebody-should-do-something-about-all-the-problems-1819583263 -- nobody is permitted to do anything about any of the problems.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111126681703828042

"Delivering what customers need, when they need it, mandates that we learn continuously and together about our product and ourselves."

#XP #Agile #SoftwareEngineering #EngineeringLeadership #ProductDevelopment

https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111126035235742233

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111126676228197291

Starting shortly: https://www.twitch.tv/schmonzie

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111126153947404177

Start your week off thoughtfully and 3-fully. How can we think about the business value of trust?

https://agilein3minut.es/3

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111126035235742233

@ska Hoo boy I do need to. Don’t even recognize this one.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111122954633646183

"A good crafter never blames their tools" is the wrong reaction to a crafter who cannot at present freely choose their tools.

It's so perfectly wrong, it undermines the speaker nearly as much as the target.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111122654613037159

@xenotrope if you’re up for the session being streamed and Thursday 1pm Eastern works for you, that’s easy (I have a regularly scheduled Twitch programming session at that time and I’d just patch you in). Else we can find our own time 🙂

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111117418695881070

@xenotrope oh cool! In that case I’d say the easiest route to getting it merged is for us to pair program. I can provide the dev env and the git-fu and we can work through the coding details together, with you taking as much or as little keyboard control as you like. Do you have an hour or two in the coming week? If so, let’s get something on the calendar.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111117402288315753

@xenotrope hey d00d, I'm coming back to life and realizing notqmail 1.09 can be imminent.

The last thing we want to get merged before release is your Maildir-uniqueness patch. I'm assuming you're very tired of the git rebasing (etc.) required to get your PR merge-ready, so I'm I'm happy to handle it -- but I'd be happier knowing you're happy having me handle it.

What we've done when merging other patches, and what I'd do here, is define a branch made up of the following:

1. Apply your published patch precisely as is, with git author attributing it to you
2. Add commits (attributed to me) that change whatever we think needs changing to better fit into the notqmail codebase

Then I'd submit a PR for the usual review (which you'd be more than welcome to participate in if you want to, and more than welcome to skip if you don't).

If this sounds okay, can you say so on https://github.com/notqmail/notqmail/pull/90#issuecomment-1731495439 ? Or if it sounds not okay, please do say that.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111117249726804270

Walking home from the back-to-school party.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111111819243252100

Happy Friday!

Could you do #Agile on a desert island?

Give yourself a few minutes' reflection — and/or give your team a conversation-starter — with the second episode of Agile in 3 Minutes.

"Retrospect": https://agilein3minut.es/2

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111108798752447676

@kf so close, maybe (probably not). I'm sorry.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111105895840180915

Today’s #Twitch stream with @jitterted and (undetectably, because I messed up the audio) @recursivefaults, in which we nearly register an #ikiwiki instance as an #OAuth app with #GitHub: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zar8DkMUWzk&list=PLkuryjnRFclRpPiXrM4oNSY1_RJHMRcYs&index=1&t=391s&pp=gAQBiAQB

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111105697212306628

@jschauma w00t!

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111103545408241894

A few years ago I took a Personal Kanban training class from @sprezzatura and @ourfounder. Dave Prior was there too. So of course, being who we are, we had to talk on his podcast about what we learned.

https://www.projectmanagement.com/blog-post/52816/insights-from-two-days-of-personal-kanban-training-w--amitai-schleier#_=_

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111100491764967379

@smack it’s frustrating to have to spend brain cells on this guy (for instance) trying to make it make sense, only to discover that he’s been making no such effort. Brandolini’s Law 😕

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111093361174047191

^^^^ Missed it (and therefore missed George, Mark, Michele, and Alan)?

No problem. Same time next week. See you then.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111092967695541583

Free. But is it worth your time?

“Amitai has the gift of bridging technical skills with insights into people collaboration and systemic issues.”
— Thorsten Brunzendorf

https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111092430785164988

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111092468145094129

Whatcha doin for lunch today?

I’m holding an open office half-hour. Let’s chat about @AgileIn3Minutes or anything else #Agile, music, organizational challenges, programming, career advice, you name it.

12:15-12:45 US/Eastern. Drop on by! https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89405675221?pwd=WHRueXFFbzZoaUsyTkxFV3hrOWpvQT09

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111092430785164988

Air conditioner off, windows open. Here’s #Mordasov Jazz Miniatures No. 28, “Mood”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW0nBzArjbQ&list=PLkuryjnRFclTzNyap3TRgLtWxgQmbu5Am&index=47

#PianoMiniature #PianoMiniatures #SlavicJazz #WeeklyPiano

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111092330004865298

@rhialto TIL!

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111088203002208131

Missed today's #Twitch stream? Here you go: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkuryjnRFclRpPiXrM4oNSY1_RJHMRcYs

On Thursday I'll begin integrating "login with GitHub" into my preferred CMS. Featuring a special guest or two 😁

Subscribe, & join us if you can: https://www.twitch.tv/schmonzie

#OpenSource #pkgsrc #notqmail #ikiwiki

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111087833025145456

I have a podcast. It’s called “Agile in 3 Minutes.”

Q1. What do I mean by #Agile?
A1. I’ll tell you.

Q2. Is each episode really no longer than 180 seconds?
A2. Yes, including this one.

First time listening? Congratulations (it’s well loved) and enjoy.

https://agilein3minut.es/1

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111086511082633170

@ska This gives me warm fuzzies (and not only from the yak detritus). My worldview requires existence proofs such as these. Because if things can be like this for some people sometimes, then it's possible that things could be more like this for more people more times.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111065028208874643

Same composer (#Mordasov), same set (Jazz Miniatures), totally different flavor. No. 27, “Dance”:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3vKMlBoIx0&list=PLkuryjnRFclTzNyap3TRgLtWxgQmbu5Am&index=46

#PianoMiniature #PianoMiniatures #SlavicJazz

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111063815219120783

@cvennevik The contemporary Hillel who _does_ talk plenty about programming. In the course of crafting the tweet I couldn’t help but think of him, too.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111060540626068340

"Parameterize things that change. Don't parameterize things that don't change. All the rest is commentary."

— Rabbi Hillel, if while standing on one foot he'd been asked about Dependency Injection instead

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111059162730144157

If you’re a hiring manager involved in software development, there are two questions to focus on:

Why haven’t we hired Amitai yet?
When is the soonest moment on my calendar I can talk with Amitai?

— Zach Bonaker

https://schmonz.com/2023/08/05/who-needs-an-amitai

#SoftwareEngineering #Leadership

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111058372386248303

Missed my #Twitch session today? We

- upgraded one build-farm VM and added another (via serial console!)
- bootstrapped @pkgsrc and a bunch of dev tools
- exercised my pkgvm and pkgbuild tools (https://github.com/schmonz/package-builders)
- got good ideas from viewers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUrcubq00Ew&list=PLkuryjnRFclRpPiXrM4oNSY1_RJHMRcYs&index=1

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111048259996212682

Help! Still looking.

I've got success stories from managing products, projects, and people.

I understand the challenges of delivering effective, efficient software products as well as anyone.

My leadership and collaboration skills are publicly attested: https://schmonz.com/2023/08/05/who-needs-an-amitai

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111036490178339303

Kids are in school again. It’s possible to imagine getting some things done. So my brain is protecting the status quo by imagining more things than I could possibly get done. Well met, brain!

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/111025979316198829