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An old gem…
I was digging through some of my old files and ran across this old gem. This is a javascript function that will take an email and obfuscate it by creating a series of methods that create the mailto address on the fly. This is to thwart crawlers and is amazingly effective, even these days, as [ ]
DECODING STORY POINTS
There is a common misconception, especially among those new to Agile/Scrum, that Story Points are just another way of measuring how long work will take and can be easily swapped out with hours. A common mistake new Agile/Scrum practitioners will make is to hand out a matrix that new practitioners can use to easily map the [ ]
Management’s Role in Scaled Agile
We are currently undergoing a transformation from a waterfall hybrid (I call it Water-Scrum-Fall) to a flavor of Scaled Agile. As we are navigating the waters of such a large effort there are a number of questions that have arisen. Most have been well covered in the many online articles about such an undertaken. However, [ ]
Warning on our increasingly connected world
There is a lack of understanding by many non-technical people on how the technology their lives revolve around works. This is the intention of technology shield complexities of how things work from people and make hard things easy. However, it also has a potential dark side that can create a blind spot in people s [ ]
Mr. T Challenge!
So my team has a tough goal. They named themselves The A Team with A standing for Agile Coaching . Given their name I told them that if they could hit a set of tough goals that I d shave my head like Mr. T. They said it needed to be purple too. They hit their goal [ ]
You’ve been Elf-ed!
So the kids were boo-ed over Halloween people dropped candy off at the door with a page to print and put on the door stating we d been boo-ed already. We then had to boo other houses. Today the girls got together and decided to create a holiday version of this Elf-ed ! If you [ ]
Kubernetes – exposing port outside cluster
So there is a ton of documentation out there on Kubernetes and how to expose ports outside the cluster. Perhaps I was having an issues interpreting the docs but I struggled for a long time with this. No matter what I did I found that I could get to the pod as long as I [ ]
I’ll be speaking at Giant Conference
I ll be speaking on building large, rad teams: http://lanyrd.com/2014/giantconf/sdbcfw/
Benefitfocus Engineering Blog
We launched the Benefitfocus Engineering blog today. Here are my inaugural posts: http://engineering.benefitfocus.com/index.php/building-large-effective-teams-quickly/ http://engineering.benefitfocus.com/index.php/closures/ http://engineering.benefitfocus.com/index.php/the-voila-factor/ http://engineering.benefitfocus.com/index.php/when-the-rabbit-hole-is-a-dead-end/