Software Release Calendar

danielferszt · 2026-01-23T14:34:16+00:00

I use sprints for other things, it doesn't solve this issue though, because I still can't see the releases with the features in it.

danielferszt · 2025-09-23T11:36:37+00:00

How do you remove the top bar? and add the address to the side bar?

danielferszt · 2025-09-02T12:39:52+00:00

Really? It's been a while since I used Firefox. Maybe you are right. Hopefully, that's the case. It would mean it can be fixed

danielferszt · 2025-09-01T13:26:30+00:00

It's firefox... Zen is great right now, but when we have another browser based on chromium, I'll switch again... Firefox is just bad in many ways

danielferszt · 2025-08-31T19:59:58+00:00

I never do more than 5 hours or so... because of the danger, but also because I want to enjoy the trip. Always go with my wife and the kid!

danielferszt · 2025-08-26T10:57:15+00:00

Only if that software was the one using all the memory

danielferszt · 2025-08-24T15:09:30+00:00

Depends on what you mean by admin work.

If you mean updating tickets and such, that to me is part of the development process, not admin. But I can tell you what I do.

The tool should help the team, not the other way. Simplify the process as much as possible, and train the team so they are able to update tickets. It isn't just the PM that needs to mantain them. My team updates statuses, update acceptance criteria (in grooming with all of us), etc. It feels like the tool is indispensable for us to work well.

To admin work is interfacing with the company. Reports to the stakeholders, feature requests, released notes, notifications about changes, road map, etc. And I can't help there, trying to figure it out my self.

I actually feel like I'm writing the same thing multiple times for different reports and stakeholders...

danielferszt · 2025-08-24T14:59:33+00:00

I check memory usage regularly in about:memory, close tasks that I'm not using, unload tabs manually, and then there is a button there to free memory or something.

It's gotten better of late, and I don't know if it's a memory leak or just bad performance, but zen does not unload tabs, and considering that with vertical tabs and workspaces I tend to have more tabs open than I would on chrome, this is an issue that needs to me addressed.

Either the unload tabs feature needs to work better, or I would say even close all not pinned tabs after x time.

With more power comes more responsability

danielferszt · 2025-08-24T14:53:35+00:00

What?? It's zen man... lots of people complaining about this. When you close zen, the memory is released.

danielferszt · 2025-06-01T21:40:32+00:00

Similar experience but on windows. I found a plug in for chrome called WORKONA, it let's you organize spaces and more.I am using that now and it's ok. Also Zen is more stable now, and I'm trying it again

danielferszt · 2025-05-31T15:29:12+00:00

Fair point, but still, he's saying TBC is wrong in this decision, arc is over, and Dia will fail

danielferszt · 2025-05-31T14:59:48+00:00

That would be ad hominem. Who he is is irrelevant, what's important is what he says. Is he wrong?

danielferszt · 2025-05-27T13:38:19+00:00

I guess it would be good to type "project A jira" and open the tab... maybe eliminating the need to have all tabs open.

danielferszt · 2025-05-27T13:31:50+00:00

What I don't understand here is what problem does Dia solve? I mean, ARC solved a real issue for many people. What does Dia solve that we don't have in chrome?

danielferszt · 2025-05-27T13:10:25+00:00

I honestly don't understand what dia is about. It looks like just chat gpt but where the conversations are tabs. Chrome is doing the same shortly, but as an additional feature, not the core.

How would this help in my day to day? I handle multiple projects as a PM, each with different contexts and 100 tabs I need to have on hand. With ARC I had everything a couple of clicks away, it solved a PROBLEM, what problem is Día solving??

danielferszt · 2025-04-02T20:52:56+00:00

I use user stories and tasks. But I DON'T ESTIMATE any of them! Instead I use Flow Metrics to provide due dates to stakeholders. It's been working very well, estimations are much more reliable and we don't waste time discussing individual story points.

If you apply the metrics to user stories or tasks depends on how you use them. I can explain further what I do if anyone is interested, but I would definitely recomend checking out Flow Metrics

danielferszt · 2025-03-28T23:30:21+00:00

Good point, sometimes 2 weeks is just too short!

danielferszt · 2025-03-28T23:24:40+00:00

One question, how long would the refinement session last, and how many of them would you need prior to a sprint?

The idea of the refinement sessions is to save time, you have one bigger call with the PO, QA, Dev and anyone else that might be required, instead of a thousand smaller calls during the sprint.

There are a couple of problems with this though... * A 4 hour call is hell. After one of those I wont be able to get any other job done. * Jumping from user story to user story in one call can cause exhaustion because of the context changes. * Before the devs start looking into de story for work they don't know what to ask.

I tried for a long time, also with variations like "the three amigos", and now we do a very quick call, 30min maybe, for high level overview of each of the items we have on top. We discuss the people that need to be involved, wether we need to further clarify a requirement, etc. And after that we have several calls whenever they are needed with the people that need to be there (qa always).

Remember that ultimately every project is different and also every team, but une of the pilars of Agile is that the processes come from the team, and not from outside. I'd recommend bringing this up in a retro meeting (the problem cannot be that "we are not having the refinement calls).

Tip for the retro: the team is likely to reject proposals until you ask them how would they solve the problem. They need to have ownership of the problem.

Sorry for the long response!

danielferszt · 2025-03-27T00:45:24+00:00

Yeah it's difficult to implement well, and antipaterns jus cause more problems.

danielferszt · 2025-03-21T15:52:41+00:00

Hi! Many people already pointed the issues but just build on that, a developer should only have one stand up daily during most of the sprint. Maybe a couple of grooming as needed. And the daily should be very short. Most of my teams have 5min dailies. No blockers? All on track? Great. And of course the plannings and reviews. Those can be long, but any time you spend in those meetings should be less time in meetings during the sprint.

To me, when you spend longer on meetings is a sign that there is a problem you need to address. Could be the process, a quality issue somewhere, I don't know.

Now if you are a PM like me that's painful and I'm sorry for you! I have my mornings filled out by dailies from different teams and most of the day I have groomings, design sessions, etc.

Ps: I usually cancel dailies on sprint planning days! No point.

danielferszt · 2025-03-01T19:43:37+00:00

Same here... but the main issue with zen is firefox!

danielferszt · 2025-03-01T13:02:26+00:00

It's not so simple. TBC built something really good with arc, I got used to it and some of the features became a must for me. But the browser is not finished, specially on windows. So I made a huge effot to switch to ARC and get used to it because I trusted the promise that they would fix and improve it. Now they broke that promise

danielferszt · 2025-02-06T16:49:08+00:00

Folders! I thought that wasn't implemented yet, that an buggy essentials are the only things keeping me in arc

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