A simple retrospective exercise I like to use is the ‘one-word retrospective’ found in Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives by Luis Gonçalves and Ben Linders. This exercise is particularly useful for helping teams deal with their feelings.
Simply ask every team member to summarize in one word how they felt about the last sprint.
Continue reading Retrospective idea: one-wordLast week, I attended the Metallica—S&M2 film at the cinema in Dundee. It was magnificent; I must have smiled ear to ear all evening.
Continue reading Metallica—S&M2What if you were to feed a long short-term memory (LSTM) recurrent neural network (essentially, a deep-learning artificial intelligence engine) a bunch of science fiction screenplays and set it to work writing an original screenplay.
Then what if you gathered a cast and crew for one day and attempted to film the result.
The result is Sunspring (2016). It is a thing of beauty. You can read the script at docdroid. And watch it on YouTube.
Continue reading Sunspring—a sci-fi film script written by AI
Here’s a website that I came across a while ago that beautifully expresses something that I’ve been passionate about for a long time in web and software design: flags are not languages.
Continue reading Flags are not languagesMetallica play their S&M2 concert with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra this Friday and Sunday.
Then on Wednesday 9 October, the show will be shown at various cinemas across the world. I have a ticket to see the show in Dundee.
Continue reading Metallica: S&M2