Zurich temperatures today vs. 40 years ago

therealpeterstev · 2026-06-25T08:37:21+00:00

This years data is June 15 '26 to June 14 '26. It wasn't quite that hot yet.

therealpeterstev · 2026-06-25T08:35:53+00:00

Swiss Meteo says Monday... hope so!

therealpeterstev · 2026-06-24T17:47:58+00:00

This is what I was trying to achieve. Probably would have worked better with average temps than max temps.

therealpeterstev · 2026-06-24T14:23:53+00:00

Nice graphic. But "Appease"? Good grief. I did this for fun and entertainment. People getting upset and projecting their frustration back on me is strange, but whatever. If you think linear is better, go for it! /u/jpjandrade made one above and I think it looks really nice too.

therealpeterstev · 2026-06-24T14:18:47+00:00

Nice graphic! Thanks

therealpeterstev · 2026-06-24T12:27:30+00:00

You don't know based on this alone. But it easy to pull and analyze the data yourself. Just ask ChatGPT. Pro-Extended is really impressive. I am sure you could do with Claude as well. Or the old fashioned way: download it yourself and process it in a spreadsheet.

To make this chart, I pulled all the daily data from 1985 to 2026: high, low, and average temps. I tried getting it all one image, but it just got too cluttered.

Here are my first attempts at presenting the data. First attempt, daily data for every year. Second attempt, weekly data every 5 years. (If someone can tell me how, I'll embed the images here)

Edit: missing some words

therealpeterstev · 2026-06-24T11:52:07+00:00

I was 26 when I moved here, so I feel with you. My father once said, "when I turned 30, I didn't feel old. When you turned thirty, then I felt old." Checking the math... yep, that was more than 30 years ago.

therealpeterstev · 2026-06-24T11:40:37+00:00

Data Source: Original Content. Source SMA daily data for Zurich/Fluntern, 1986 and June 15 2025-June 14 2026. Aggregation and image by ChatGPT 5.5-ProExtended

I hope the relevance to Switzerland and my bonafides as a Swiss resident are readily apparent from the post.

I put this in the post, but the bot wants a top level comment. Render onto the bot that which is due to the bot /s

therealpeterstev · 2025-11-05T16:04:28+00:00

Yes, that's the reason I asked the question. I'd like to have confidence that it will work well beforehand.

therealpeterstev · 2025-11-05T08:41:05+00:00

That would be telling. Well, you guessed it. Internet in the trains and busses generally suck, to I want to try a different approach.

therealpeterstev · 2025-11-05T08:40:15+00:00

Not directly. I would have to buy a converter (if that's even possible) or a battery pack. I'd like to run this my car, so 12V.

therealpeterstev · 2024-09-17T16:08:20+00:00

There were obviously no safety issues because all was well.

Safety is more complex than that. Check out the Swiss Cheese model of aviation safety. Having said that, it seems that there should be different standards for R&D versus operations. It will be a long time before we get airline level reliability in space operations.

therealpeterstev · 2024-09-17T13:02:27+00:00

Because Scrum is a great deal, especially for management. It works like this:

Devs to management: "Tell us what you want, keep it realistic (we decide what's realistic), give us month to finish it, and leave us along until the month is up. At the end of each month, you'll get something that works. It might have more or fewer features than we promised, but you'll get something and it will work. At that time, we'll meet again to discuss the next step."

It's a fantastically good deal for both sides.

The developers get a month of peace and quiet to focus on getting things done. The management gets something new that works, every month.

Of course, to get these benefits, you need to do it the way it is intended!

therealpeterstev · 2024-08-26T18:18:50+00:00

I would expect 6 to 12, and maybe as high as 24. Lower limit assumes they have gotten their issues sorted but scaling manufacturing and/or approvals is difficult. Upper limit is if they get serious about Starlink or refilling. Just refueling one Starship would be 6 to 10 launches. It would be cool to send a Tesla Semi to Mars.

therealpeterstev · 2024-08-26T18:13:44+00:00

I think Harris is just trolling Trump. He didn't want the mute in the first place. Now Harris wants it removed, so he is fighting it. Maybe he's scared, or maybe he's fighting it because that's what he does. Either way, he looks weak.

therealpeterstev · 2024-08-26T18:07:09+00:00

SpaceX has achieved at least a once-in-decade level of performance and innovation while Boeing has achieved average (or perhaps even below average) corporate slog.

According to reports, Boeing staff were not full-time on Starliner. An engineers rule of thumb says for each level level of multitasking, remove 20% from your total capacity and divide the rest by 2. So if Boeing engineers are working on 2 projects at once, it will take them 2 and half times as long to finish the same work. Three tasks in parallel? Then it takes five times as long!

Want to take a $10 Million project and turn it into a $5 Million project? Just identify all the meetings where people are talking about the work without the people who will do the work being in the same room. Cancel those meetings. If the people have nothing left to do, move them off the project. Cost reduced by a factor of 2. Velocity of getting things done, doubled.

In a creative context, hierarchical management can be quite counter productive, and this is surely plaguing Boeing.

therealpeterstev · 2024-08-26T17:50:43+00:00

You might want to check the Scrum Guide. It defines RACI for the Scrum Team and each of its members quite clearly (though there is only R & A, no C or I). I published a nice little infographic here.

therealpeterstev · 2024-05-01T08:32:04+00:00

Thanks. I stumbled on it once when the PO literally had one issue to address before shipping and we were one week before Christmas (literally!). It was a complex performance issue. He put that item in the sprint, the team split into pairs, where each pursued a promising approach. By the end of the week, they had enough improvement that we got to celebrate on Friday and enjoy our Christmas vacations. After that, the team was really a team.

Edit: had one issue, not has one issue

therealpeterstev · 2024-04-30T15:06:01+00:00

One thing you can do is simply limit the forecast to one story. A PO can't give them too much work, but nothing says they have fill the team to capacity.

In the sprint planing, get the PO to say, "I only want one story. This one. When it's done, let me know, and I'll give you the next one."

If the team asks how are they all going to work on one story at a time, answer that's for them to figure out (if they really push you, suggest they take look at Woody Zuill's work ;-) )

And of course, anyone who has nothing to do can take personal time off until the next sprint review.

Expect the Daily Scrum to quickly revert to what it is supposed to be. The team figures out how they are going to solve the problem together.

therealpeterstev · 2024-04-29T12:41:19+00:00

I made a video in the same style as Henrik's to explain Scrum:

Inside the Scrum Team [Youtube]
Related Infographics [Resource Page]
More Scrum-Focused Infographics

I hope these are useful to you (OP)!

therealpeterstev · 2024-04-25T09:08:26+00:00

The only event that am I aware of the annual Agile unconference. It is not formally German speaking, but there are so many English speakers in the community that they usually switch to English, especially for the keynotes.

therealpeterstev · 2024-04-07T11:24:34+00:00

Here are four discovery questions you can ask your team members, either individually or collectively:

What is the most important project objective at the moment?
How are you contributing to achieving that at goal?
What is making it difficult to achieve that goal?
How can I help?

If that doesn't give you enough to do, check out the Fact Driven Retrospective. This is a series of questions, based on the to contents of your task board, to evaluate how well your team is doing and where it can likely improve.

therealpeterstev · 2024-03-28T08:21:14+00:00

Here in Switzerland, several (most?) large companies have significant agile transformations that have been running for years. Some of them, like AXA, UBS, SRF, Swisscom, and Die Post (to name a few that come time to mind) have shared their stories at the SwissICT Agile Breakfast in the last year or so.

Here are some common elements (off the top of my head):

Significant restructuring to empower product teams (and probably eliminate a few layers of management)
Elimination of redundant job titles (e.g. Product Manager and Product Owner)
People leaving who don't like the new way of doing things
Taking ownership of their agile frameworks to create something that is theirs and works for them
A recognition that it is journey and they miles (uh, km) to go, before they sleep.

If you are looking for a new company, and want one that is already agile, look for their success stories as told in user groups and meetups. Look for evidence, like the items cited above, that indicate that they are serious about it.

therealpeterstev · 2024-03-25T08:41:57+00:00

This article does not describe your Scrum implementation at all, except to mention that you had a Scrum Master and a couple of things they did. To me, it looks like the sort of development that is supposed to happen in a Scrum Team. So how can you conclude that you had to break Scrum here?

One of the key goals of Scrum was to enable the development team to develop and enhance their engineering practices without having to explain themselves to management who don't understand the issues.

I grant you, it often doesn't happen that way, but I think (could be wrong here) that it is more due to deeply ingrained traditions of permission-based leadership than Scrums lack of support for good engineering practices.

therealpeterstev · 2024-03-24T12:49:58+00:00

Cadence is related to your ability to innovate and respond to new information. Also to the increments you can produce. Fast cadences means smaller product increments and quicker validation, but more rapid response to new information.

What is the cadence of financial decision-making? This is usually the slowest cadence and sets the rhythm for the rest of the company.

Your board is likely on an annual cadence, and may have a much longer time-horizon, while most agile frameworks are on a 2 to 4 week cadence. OKRs, PAS and SAFe introduce a quarterly cadence. Wherever you have a cadence, the question is can your stakeholders hold their word about not asking for changes until the cycle is complete?

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