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:…
Professional Development – 2019 – Week 51
Agile What I Want for an Agile Christmas (via Mountain Goat Software) From the Scrum master… more focus on principles and values instead of prescriptive rules; sell the idea instead of telling people what to do From the product owner……
Making Work Visible – Part 6
This week we talked about preventing negligence and useful board design examples. Preventing Negligence Each of us has experienced the “let’s add this other fix while the hood is up” situation. The author mentioned a circumstance where there were tickets…
Professional Development – 2019 – Week 50
Agile What are Systems of Delivery and Systems of Transformation – And Why Do You Need Both? (via Leading Agile) Systems of delivery are Agile processes (e.g., Kanban, Scrum, SAFe) that help you see what’s working and not working. That…
Making Work Visible – Part 5
This week we talked about exposing unplanned work and prioritizing work. The Perfect Crime: Unplanned Work Find a system of tracking every time you get interrupted. This could be putting a sticky note on the board for every task you…