ttr2021

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by ttr2021 3y ago
Addictive!
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by ttr2021 3y ago
Nobody needs a Lamborghini. But everyone _wants_ a Lamborghini
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by ttr2021 3y ago
Definitely not in a Lamborghini
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by ttr2021 3y ago
Yup, that pretty much sums it up...
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by ttr2021 3y ago
I had a similar experience, but I joined AWS support, in a pretty challenging role (big data profile). My first 3 months were training (almost none of it on any big data technologies) taking cases and working with other support engineers. T
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by ttr2021 3y ago
Ive always held the belief that story points were specific to a team, and a result of the work that specific team does and/or services, products and customers they support, which was a why comparing cross teams is a huge no no! But sto
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by ttr2021 3y ago
Agree with all of your points. I had everything documented in a business case format for management to consume with references to more technical topics, in a wiki. So, anyway, I think things have sort of settled on this stuff a bit now. I&#
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by ttr2021 3y ago
Funny but true!
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by ttr2021 3y ago
But didn't hesitate to go back and use all my notes, research and contacts to quickly backfill all his lack of details with my stuff!
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by ttr2021 3y ago
Dude, I had a colleague, senior to me, do the opposite. I had an idea that I struggled internally to get off the ground for months and months. I pretty much did all the research, found the contacts, got the architecture direction, sought fe
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by ttr2021 3y ago
"Fall back on blaming the process when failure comes around and avoid ever pointing fingers or owning it." Some organisations can do this, but I've see plenty that might outwardly try to avoid pointing fingers, but you can te
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by ttr2021 3y ago
My simple answer: Don't. You're always hovering somewhere between a sysadmin and a software engineer, but never quite get the cred for developing software but still cop all the crud that sysadmins do.
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by ttr2021 4y ago
I joined a scale up in the BNPL space as head of data engineering. It was one of the most poorly managed IT environments I'd ever seen. There was so much technical debt, that basic systems where literally dead or dying (day 3, Tableau
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by ttr2021 4y ago
My observations working in a large financial institution who have in the last couple of years adopted SaFE and therefore hired product owners and scrum masters is that the majority of scrum masters including the lead scrum masters come from
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by ttr2021 4y ago
But is a programming language really a tool? I guess it's a tool that creates other tools..
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by ttr2021 4y ago
Totally weird! Tell me more!
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by ttr2021 4y ago
I am the %8!!!
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by ttr2021 4y ago
Because it was there?
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by ttr2021 4y ago
Haha, omfg a classic... One of the "questions" on their apply for job form is TL;DR Optional field is REQUIRED and only option is "Yes" "At Thoughtworks, we are intentional about making technology a better place for
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by ttr2021 4y ago
I applied for a role at ThoughtWorks once and their form was an interesting one. They as all the usual details but they an an option in leui of uploading your CV and other details 'or enter manually'. It's the most bizarro th
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by ttr2021 4y ago
That's almost exactly what my thoughts were. Its not a role, it's culture/mindset/ "this is how we fold security into our development and operations". An expectation perhaps. I've seen platform engineering
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by ttr2021 4y ago
Yet another 'digital container' of disparate information to house your data and make it difficult for someone find it across an organisation. As someone who was working in a scale up I found that we had information spread across c
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by ttr2021 4y ago
Mind blown. So many variables to consider, so many options. Excellent read.
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by ttr2021 4y ago
To me this sort of seems like an optimisation problem. As a business you're after some monetary metric, and cash flow and ideally enough to pay your staff (haha, been there working for free or very little). But you don't know up f
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by ttr2021 5y ago
I was in a very similar situation around 2 years ago. I came into a lead data engineer role at a startup-going-scaleup. I saw technical horrors, mismanagement, lack of ownership at all levels and an overarching distasteful culture. I say ge