Posts by Spawn of Seaton

Nothing to hide, nothing to fear

If this principle is good enough for the rest of us, why not those in power or authority?

Rule takers and PR spin

While the whole idea of right-to-repair is a good one, there's no way the UK will be able to mandate stronger rights than the EU does, for the simple reason that few if any manufacturers will want to sell in to a relatively small market with more onerous conditions of sale. If UK rules insist on parts being available for a longer period than the EU does then manufacturers will sell a more restricted range of products to the UK. On the other hand there would be a great increase in unofficial (grey) imports with no right-of-repair, so we'll end up worse off.

So we'll just find that Great British Rights are just copied-and-pasted from EU rules, with a Union Flag for decoration. And a Lion too.

Open Data

Most of the discussion here has been about climate change. Isn't there a bigger issue here, namely the willingness of politicians to destroy or hide data? If researchers in any field were in any doubt of the benefits of open data publication then this should sway them.

I find that a daily catch-up is very useful but then as a Scrum Master I would say that wouldn't I?

Where they work well is when

1. The team decides at what time the meeting will happen, not me and not higher management

2. Participants gets a maximum of 2 minutes in which to speak

3. Only team members speak

4. Participants address the gathering, not me and not higher management

5. Discussion happens between relevant people after the meeting

Where they absolutely don't work is when they are a status report to management - there are other and better avenues for this.

My feeling is that some managers treat these gatherings more like a military muster parade - polishing their egos at the vision of all the troops they command.