Never did get the hang of Thursdays
Boy is that ever true.
I understand the purpose of a "stand up" meeting every morning. It forces total communication between team and team leads. Of course if you are a team lead that is actually any good at your job you'll talk to your team regularly anyway. Therefore making a "stand up" meeting useful for a large team, and useless for a small team (of which I'm on a VERY small team right now).
Which brings me to my rambling point that it seems that this "extreme programming" concept is partially designed to compensate for bad management in some ways. I wonder, instead of inventing buzz words and elaborate processes to cover up or compensate for things like bad management. Why not learn to do your job effectively? Guess that makes too much common sense. Though, common sense is a very rare commodity in the business world. More and more I get the impression that if you either cannot figure out what to do for a career or you really don't have an aptitude for anything in particular, etc you wind up in "business". That way you can spend your days trying to push paperwork without really *doing* anything yet feel like you've contributed to the Greater Good of the company. Scary to think of human beings willingly being reduced to the level of barnyard cattle. It's not "Brave New World" its "Brave New Barnyard"! Though it would explain the legions of people who can't quite explain what they really *do* as work during the day.
Rant aside, it *is* Thursday.. which means tomorrow is Friday. There is such a relief and a weight tossed off my shoulders as I leave work on Fridays. Which, I know is a sign of my job and myself being incompatable. That brings up another rant of the American culture being obsessed with health ruining work ethics. But I'll save that for another entry. One rant per entry should be enough for anyone.
On to writing. On the second edit of "Response Time". Its a short story set in the Spartika City universe. Yes, another superhero story. But this isn't Pulsewave, this is Skyburner. New character. I'm going to keep Skyburner in the realm of "pulp short stories" for awhile. After working on Spec Ops, I find there is a singular joy in making small, compact stories for magazine publication. Sense of accomplishment I guess. In any case, I like the story. I got the idea from hearing a story about a nursing home in New Orleans that was beseiged after the Katrina disaster by looters. The staff fought the looters off and protected the people staying in the nursing home. I have great respect for that so I used lots of elements of that for "Response Time". After edit #3 it *should* be in a shape to send. We'll see.
I understand the purpose of a "stand up" meeting every morning. It forces total communication between team and team leads. Of course if you are a team lead that is actually any good at your job you'll talk to your team regularly anyway. Therefore making a "stand up" meeting useful for a large team, and useless for a small team (of which I'm on a VERY small team right now).
Which brings me to my rambling point that it seems that this "extreme programming" concept is partially designed to compensate for bad management in some ways. I wonder, instead of inventing buzz words and elaborate processes to cover up or compensate for things like bad management. Why not learn to do your job effectively? Guess that makes too much common sense. Though, common sense is a very rare commodity in the business world. More and more I get the impression that if you either cannot figure out what to do for a career or you really don't have an aptitude for anything in particular, etc you wind up in "business". That way you can spend your days trying to push paperwork without really *doing* anything yet feel like you've contributed to the Greater Good of the company. Scary to think of human beings willingly being reduced to the level of barnyard cattle. It's not "Brave New World" its "Brave New Barnyard"! Though it would explain the legions of people who can't quite explain what they really *do* as work during the day.
Rant aside, it *is* Thursday.. which means tomorrow is Friday. There is such a relief and a weight tossed off my shoulders as I leave work on Fridays. Which, I know is a sign of my job and myself being incompatable. That brings up another rant of the American culture being obsessed with health ruining work ethics. But I'll save that for another entry. One rant per entry should be enough for anyone.
On to writing. On the second edit of "Response Time". Its a short story set in the Spartika City universe. Yes, another superhero story. But this isn't Pulsewave, this is Skyburner. New character. I'm going to keep Skyburner in the realm of "pulp short stories" for awhile. After working on Spec Ops, I find there is a singular joy in making small, compact stories for magazine publication. Sense of accomplishment I guess. In any case, I like the story. I got the idea from hearing a story about a nursing home in New Orleans that was beseiged after the Katrina disaster by looters. The staff fought the looters off and protected the people staying in the nursing home. I have great respect for that so I used lots of elements of that for "Response Time". After edit #3 it *should* be in a shape to send. We'll see.
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