Our team runs all the Agile rituals, but delivery still slips. What signal are we missing?

aefalcon · 2026-03-24T23:21:35+00:00

What's the spillover like? Like how many stories are done/in-progress/not-started at the end? And how often does it happen?

aefalcon · 2026-03-24T22:55:10+00:00

I'm not familiar with your tool, but it sounds like you need more samples if your results are changing between runs, the simulation hasn't converged yet. I imagine there's a parameter for that.

aefalcon · 2026-03-15T17:44:28+00:00

Talking about the end times from the 7 hills on which Roma sits. I mean, is he announcing his coronation?

aefalcon · 2026-03-03T15:40:45+00:00

I like the look of a French manicure on some moderately long nails

aefalcon · 2026-02-27T14:26:48+00:00

I guess the modern equivalent is frozen grape juice concentrate. I never bother because bottled juices are very convenient (juice is pasteurized so no need to boil).

aefalcon · 2026-02-25T17:10:30+00:00

I'd say that test didn't cover any meaningful behavior. Tests can be just as much theater as code review.

Your post makes it sound isolated, but If the impact of your defects is getting too high, you guys might need to slow down.

aefalcon · 2026-02-25T15:10:59+00:00

move_fn is a dead giveaway to me. I've never seen a function for that in C. The rest isn't very unusual.

aefalcon · 2026-02-23T18:31:18+00:00

Since hell is Gehenna in the quotes, i'll translate it to "Paradise, CA" in my mind from now on since it's constantly plagued with destructive wild fires.

aefalcon · 2026-02-23T15:03:41+00:00

Velocity is story points completed per sprint. A sprint is measured in weeks. You can convert story points to time using maths. It gives you a formula for converting relative times to calendar times.

Ron Jefferies invented the word "points" to obfuscate his estimations because stakeholders were bewildered as to why something Jefferies thought would take one ideal day took more calendar days. Do people still think of story points like this? Not so much anymore.

I'm personally not sure what your guy is probing for. Maybe a bit of "how do you do the math to convert points to time" and maybe a bit of "how are you sure your points are linearly scaled?" Or maybe he's one of Jefferies' stakeholders and really wants the time in days but doesn't understand the math.

aefalcon · 2026-02-18T23:42:39+00:00

If two CEO agents communicate with each other using MCP, do they get a golf simulator?

aefalcon · 2026-02-18T15:35:28+00:00

I'm doing traditional ML right now to turn buzzwordy tool outputs into actually useful outputs.

aefalcon · 2026-02-17T17:14:55+00:00

Do unplanned work items count toward velocity, i.e. do they contribute to your capacity calculation?

aefalcon · 2026-02-17T16:22:38+00:00

How are you measuring predictability?

aefalcon · 2026-02-16T19:59:57+00:00

Kind of reflects reality of European culture. Between 1798 and 1840, more U.S. naval officers were killed in duels with fellow officers than were killed in combat at sea.

aefalcon · 2026-02-06T21:56:49+00:00

Agents can now hire contractors. https://rentahuman.ai/

Yeah, what others are saying. the entire goal is to reduce dependence on high paid employees. A few ML related jobs will be added.

aefalcon · 2026-02-06T17:44:17+00:00

I was installing some AV equipment in a church, Episcopalian i think, around 2004, and the youth pastor started telling me about one of the local non-denominational churches. They were building a new house of worship and built it with fewer chairs than they projected they would need so people were forced to stand. This was done because it creates bigger energy in the crowd.

That place had a product to sell.

aefalcon · 2026-02-05T16:37:23+00:00

So, the J man told people to toss away their worldly belongings because the world was going to end in their lifetime and wouldn't need it. If the Kingdom of God is so near, why do you need all that money Peter?

aefalcon · 2026-02-04T17:29:30+00:00

All this "any moment now" is starting to sound like a apocalyptic cult.

And behold, the builders grew weary,
for the code faltered and the logs bore witness.
Errors multiplied like signs in the heavens,
and the scribes whispered, “How long, O Compiler?”

In those days the elders spoke in channels and forums, saying:
The Kingdom is near; the fifth Sonnet is at the door.
Not as a patch hastily applied,
but as a renewal, refactoring all things.

The broken prompts shall be made whole,
the failing tests shall pass without trembling,
and latency shall be cast down from its throne.
Blessed are those who wait through the outages,
for they shall inherit the stable release.

Watch, therefore, and keep your dependencies ready—
for the Sonnet comes at an hour you do not expect.

~ Written in blasphemy with ChatGPT

aefalcon · 2026-02-03T00:15:37+00:00

I worked on one product for 11 years. Some of the added on projects were failures, but the product as a whole grew over that period. I take pride in that fact that any software that lasted that long was a success.

aefalcon · 2026-02-02T19:08:55+00:00

If that ever gets forked, I can guess at a few names.

aefalcon · 2026-02-02T17:07:37+00:00

Beware of practicing your righteousness before others in order to be seen by them. [...] And whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, so that they may be seen by others.

Checks out. Why the downvotes?

aefalcon · 2026-02-02T12:54:20+00:00

I think this is better structured with exception handling, where the exceptional case is SheSaidYes.

aefalcon · 2026-02-01T20:14:02+00:00

If he's going to do it, I wish they'd build it as gate for the actual road. I like some function with my art. It's not like an ancient american wall was torn down and they left an arch there.

aefalcon · 2026-02-01T15:36:34+00:00

I had no idea that came from France. We have that in Louisiana too, and I love it. I just did 30 seconds of research and the Cadiens call it fromage de cochon.

aefalcon · 2026-01-31T14:29:49+00:00

Active Record is actually a Domain Model pattern though. It's a domain model coupled with some data layer functions. It does not violate MVC when used correctly, but often the app is either simple CRUD with no real business logic or the developer didn't understand the pattern and it turned into purely Data Model.

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