This week we wrapped up the book by discussing the art of the meeting, beastly practices, and the conclusion. The Art of the Meeting Lean Coffee has some of the feel of an Agile retrospective, but it’s about more than…
Professional Development – 2020 – Week 2
Agile Modernization Case Study at CSG (via Agile Amped) It’s risky to go dark for 18 months and $100M to modernize Take a piece of the system over time using version control, infra automation, testing, CI, feature flags, code porting,…
Revell F-4G Phantom II: Part 0
I recently finished a smaller scale version of this plane, which was meant as a “starter kit” to help me learn things. Now I’m building a better quality kit (Revell) with a larger scale (1:32)… F-4G Phantom II Wild Weasel….
Professional Development – 2020 – Week 1
Career Don’t Quit Until You Ask Yourself These Questions (via Lifehacker) What aspect of this situation is making me want to quit? What’s the problem here? Can I fix the problem? If I can’t fix the problem, will it improve…
Year in Review: 2019
Although it takes effort and discipline to capture the content for these yearly reviews, I continue to be amazed by how much I accomplish personally and professionally each year. The areas I focused on (in no particular order) include community…
Professional Development – 2019 – Week 52
Career What Happens When Your Career Becomes Your Whole Identity (via Harvard Business Review) Things that lead to enmeshment of your identity with your career are (1) being rewarded for working longer hours, (2) career achievements are highly values in…
Lindberg F-4G Phantom II Index
Intro Second Scale Model Build Preparing the space Scale Modeling Work Space Setup Setting up the Spray Booth Learning new equipment Learning about the Camera (deprecated, as I upgraded the camera) Learning about Adobe Premiere Elements Video Editing in Adobe…
Battle Damaged F-4G Phantom: Part 10
In the previous post I weathered the main body of the aircraft. This post covers the last steps: painting and assembling the components underneath the aircraft, and installing the canopy. Assembly The pieces were already primed. To proceed I needed…
Battle Damaged F-4G Phantom: Part 9
In the previous post I applied the decals. This post covers weathering the main body of the aircraft. Aside: I’ve decided to take a break from posting videos of the build. Although more visually compelling, it takes more effort than…
Making Work Visible – Part 7
This week we talked about metrics, making time thieves visible, and the operations review. Your Metrics or Your Money The idea of using a probabilistic approach instead of a hard estimate is something Geoff had seen in Waltzing with Bears:…