Notices by Jane D.R. Fraser (janef0421@mastodon.nz)

@quinn @PenguinJunk @ErgonWolf Nuclear’s lifetime cost is quite competitive and it uses less material resources than alternatives.

@PenguinJunk @quinn @ErgonWolf There’s no limit on how much nuclear waste can be stored, it just means more facilities need to be built and maintained. Also, a lot of it would be reprocessed once the most economical ores were extracted, so the problem wouldn’t get out of hand.

My employer is moving to trying to release every two-week sprint, and I’m kind of skeptical of the arrangement. Rapid releases make sense, but when you’re pairing that with fixed timelines, the unpredictable nature of development means you’ll either have people working too hard to meet the timeline, or the releases will have ad-hoc feature sets based on whatever was done by the deadline, neither of which is good.

More broadly, I don’t think the fixed sprint process makes sense. I understand the iteration; Having a bundle of related work that can be planned together and then analysed, both by the developers and external stakeholders makes sense. I also get that having fixed work periods is easier for management, though I feel it would be better to have more flexible management. But I seriously doubt you can impose the latter on the former and maintain its advantages.