220111

Today

  • Configuring Dynamics 365 and writing training
  • Walk on the beach at sunset
  • Future Skills email

Tomorrow

  • Delivering Dynamics 365 training
  • Walk on a beach
  • Adding to the Ultimate Digital Tools list

220110

Today:

  • Really good day at work getting ready for a project going live and recruiting
  • Walked on the beach and fell in a puddle
  • Found amazing landscape art on Instagram
  • Worked on a Future Skills email

Tomorrow:

  • Configuring Dynamics 365
  • Writing product training
  • Revising British Sign Language and maybe doing the next module
  • Walking along the coastline a bit more

Magic air pen

A stylus that you can use to draw in the sir when on a video call and what you draw shows on the screen for the viewers.

220109

Today

  • Irregular Ideas newsletter
  • Walk along the cliff tops
  • Writing threads and thinking about how to build a knowledge base of tweets

Tomorrow

  • Recruitment
  • Writing training
  • Walk on the beach
  • Future Skills email

Whole load of APIs

ProgrammableWeb API Directory

https://www.programmableweb.com/apis/directory

OpenSignal API

https://www.programmableweb.com/api/opensignal

Daily Inspirational Zen Quotes API

https://zenquotes.io/

Quote Garden

https://pprathameshmore.github.io/QuoteGarden/

Random Quotes API

https://github.com/lukePeavey/quotable

Inspiration quotes

https://inspiration.goprogram.ai/docs/

Quotes and expressions

http://forismatic.com/en/api/

Inspiring expressions

https://github.com/fisenkodv/dictum

A collective list of free APIs

https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis

Community Twitter Bookmarks

Maintain a public, shared knowledgebase of tweets around a particular subject. The members of a community of interest can add tweets, vote on their usefulness, keep or remove them.

Where we go wrong with Agile

I’m no expert on Agile software development or agile working but being more agile in the ways we work is something I have aspired to for many years, so I have an opinion on where we might sometimes go wrong when implementing agile in an organisation.

The problems of the realities of agile not meeting the expectations are rooted, I think, in that many people consider agile an implementation methodology, all about producing work, doing stuff. And it isn’t about doing, it’s about learning. Agile is a learning methodology.

The first five words of the Agile Manifesto, “We are uncovering better ways…” seem very much about learning. It doesn’t say, “We have ‘uncovered’ better ways”, to state that the better ways to do software development have been found, so no need to keep looking. And it doesn’t say, “We have uncovered the ‘best’ way”, to state that the one true answer has been found. No, it says that being agile is about always looking for and uncovering better ways, always learning.

If we view agile in this way, as all about learning, then more things start to make sense. The regular cadence and short time boxes with fast feedback loops facilitate learning, not producing more work.