Post archive for October 2007

Care to scrum?

2007 October 17

We need more scrums and less meetings. A scrum is a 5-10 minute stand-up meeting. About 80% of the meetings I've ever attended have included at least five people. Any meeting over three becomes a presentation while one bloviates and others wander.

Trials of the I-70 commute

2007 October 15

A while ago I began working back in the big city while remaining in modest Lawrence. This required a 40 min. x 2 drive into the sun five days a week. It wasn't so bad at first, but the race through traffic and mass of incandescent gas started taking its toll.