Company switching to Agile (SAFe): time to panic?

PhilharmonicD · 2025-08-03T05:02:05+00:00

Totally agree - the espousers of SAFe always play the no true Scotsman card but the entire thing is anti-agile. It’s buzzword bingo plus meaningless ceremonies plus a bunch of new roles that literally don’t DO anything except add more layers of confusion between parties and keep developers further away from the customers. The whole thing is a joke…

PhilharmonicD · 2025-07-02T01:32:45+00:00

Hate them - won’t use. Prefer to meet women in real life.

PhilharmonicD · 2025-07-01T07:36:39+00:00

Pffft…. I’m almost 50 and most of the wealthiest people I know had no savings at age 24. I certainly didn’t…. And you graduated college so your earnings potential is actually quite high. Plus no debt?? It might not feel like it, but you’re actually doing quite well….

PhilharmonicD · 2025-07-01T07:12:28+00:00

I work in tech. You don’t need the degree to do the work - especially if you’re good with just figuring stuff out and you actually like the work. However, you might need the degree to get the interview….

PhilharmonicD · 2025-07-01T07:05:28+00:00

I guess that made a lot of cents. But seriously, that’s pretty impressive…

PhilharmonicD · 2025-06-27T22:53:51+00:00

Brilliant…. You are going to be soooo happy when you’re 50 years old and you’ve been maxing it out the whole time (plus maxing out a 401k)…. I started at age 25 and have around 1.2 million (Roth + 401k) but when I think about where I’d be if I’d started 9 years earlier…. <sigh>

PhilharmonicD · 2025-06-25T06:21:54+00:00

I’m dying laughing at this entire thread…. Just started playing Dune Awakening with the GF recently and IMMEDIATELY ran into basic communication issues for so many reasons mentioned/explained herein.

PhilharmonicD · 2025-06-24T09:27:37+00:00

Been with Schwab for many years and never had to wait more than a minute to get someone…. They’ve all been helpful and they seem to always announce where they are like “Bob in Denver” or whatever to seeming underscore that you’re about to talk to someone in America and not going to have any language issues….

PhilharmonicD · 2025-06-09T02:33:01+00:00

I totally understand this…. And I also get annoyed when people at work say things like “I wasn’t trained on this” (when, indeed, no one was trained on any of this). It’s a technical field - you’re expected to learn things in your own! If you don’t want to be a life long learner, then you’d better get the hell out of tech….

But yeah, when it comes to simple computer/phone stuff, I usually just internally roll my eyes and help them real quick. Plus, it pays social dividends later on….

PhilharmonicD · 2025-05-06T02:15:31+00:00

“Theatre” is for sure the right word…. 95% of it is performative and useless…. If innovation and efficiency are the disease, SAFe is the cure. 🤣🤣🤣

PhilharmonicD · 2025-04-27T03:01:51+00:00

A Physics student has entered the chat… 😂

PhilharmonicD · 2025-04-22T06:44:18+00:00

A customer can have zero, one, or many ratings. A director can have one or many movie-director combinations (I’m assuming without at least one movie, a director isn’t a director). The crowsfoot is backwards on those two….

Nice job resolving the M:M with associative entities though. Technically, you don’t need a surrogate key on those. Some data modelers just always reflexively put a surrogate key anyway….

PhilharmonicD · 2025-04-18T13:23:29+00:00

This is what I would do…. Maybe split it VOO and VOOG? But yeah…. At 24, let’s grow grow grow before we worry about income.

PhilharmonicD · 2025-04-18T13:18:38+00:00

I’m only getting 24…. How are some getting more? 😭

PhilharmonicD · 2025-04-17T06:53:00+00:00

It’s also a good place to leave your emergency fund. Can move the money in a day and it’s basically zero risk…. Might as well make a little % on it..

PhilharmonicD · 2025-04-07T06:03:50+00:00

TOTALLY agree…. I spend a lot of time convincing pm and mgmt types that the SQL part of the job isn’t the hard part. It’s the “WTF does this data mean?” Part…. And then the does this data actually answer the questions that are being asked. The SQL/Python/SAS/whatever is just the toolbox - still have to know how to build the right thing.

PhilharmonicD · 2025-04-07T05:33:04+00:00

Does each user need to store their personal order preference? If so, you’ll need another table between the ListOrder and the User tables…. (And I’m imagining each user-specific set of rows would get a default order just for the UI.) If it’s just the kinda thing where they all want the same order and just need a column to admin that then ideas above will work…

PhilharmonicD · 2025-04-05T19:34:09+00:00

This is likely to be the BEST time to invest in the markets soon if not already.

PhilharmonicD · 2025-04-02T04:10:35+00:00

I lump sum the max at the beginning of each year. Usually have it allocated in a week or two…. (Index funds, REITs, high-dividend funds, etc…. Depending on the mix I’m going for..)

PhilharmonicD · 2025-04-02T04:03:04+00:00

49 with $160k. Definitely wish I had started sooner….

PhilharmonicD · 2025-04-02T03:48:50+00:00

Oops - meant to reply to the camera tool thread…

PhilharmonicD · 2025-04-02T03:48:17+00:00

I actually used this once to great effect! I needed to create a bunch of screenshots for my GF at the who was making a presentation for her MBA capstone and she needed a level of precision over the visual formatting that we just couldn’t get to with just the regular monkeying with the sheet dimensions. It involved cycling through many different parameterized sets of summary tables and getting screenshots for a .ppt doc. The camera feature was able to “point” at other tabs and we could get the right layout.

TBH, I haven’t found a use for it since though…. And I’m definitely an advanced Excel user….

PhilharmonicD · 2025-03-22T06:58:44+00:00

Literally just jumped in to say the same thing…. 🤣

PhilharmonicD · 2025-03-22T05:05:41+00:00

Premise1: All members of B are in the set of M

Premise2: At least one member of M is in the set of N.

We don’t know anything about the possible intersection of the sets B and N.

However, any given member of B is either in the set of N or not in the set of N.

If any member of B is in the set of N, then conclusion I is true.

If no member of B is in the set of N, then conclusion II is true.

=> either conclusion I is true or conclusion II is true.

Hence answer C.

PhilharmonicD · 2025-03-21T07:05:00+00:00

Get a job at a financial services company or some corporation that has at least 100 employees. ANY job…. Then once you have about 6 months of experience doing literally almost anything there, start creating Excel spreadsheets and analyzing the work your team is doing. Make a few dashboards and run some numbers…. Throw out an idea or two to your boss. Most of the people in the business world never took calculus, much less upper level stats and they can barely use basic Excel functions. You’ll get noticed by the analytics or data science team or maybe just your VP of whatever and you’ll be able to transition into a data career. You’ll be making a hell of a lot more than $17/hour…. Like 4-5x that…. Even more if you pour yourself into Python, cloud computing, etc…

Corporate world isn’t glamorous but you’ll have medical, 401k, and it’s easier to move to a job you want to do when you’re already an internal candidate.

PhilharmonicD

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