At Sporcle we are more Kanban than anything. When I was at Adobe, they had _just_ started to embrace Scrum. I love Scrum, but it is a touch too process heavy for our company culture. Aaand I know too many people that see Scrum as some kind of religion, but there is so much about it that just makes sense. I steal from it often in what we do.
This is awesome and I especially love the bonus Dr. Seuss trivia! I recently learned the Frankenstein origin story, which is similar (it all started with a bet). Definitely a lesson worth learning here. I find I deliver some of my best work when I have the clearest constraints.
I'm new to Substack — still finding my voice and my favorite themes as a writer. Even here, I notice how much more my words flow when I set a clear intention or have a specific audience in mind (rather than try to talk about everything, all at once, to everybody). Thank you for this reminder!
Yeah I am fairly new here as well and each week I feel like a bit more opens up for me. And gosh, sure seems like creative endeavors could just benefit from more gambling.
Like the graphic! Did you create it? I think this is a nice way to stand out from the crowd. Make sure to add the name of your publication if people share it (via Pinterest or another platform).
I liked the last part with your daughter the most. Why? It's HUMAN. It makes me connect with you. You let me in your life and tell me about reading to your daughter... who is 18 (!). Wonderful!
I miss my toddler already. Sprending time with our kids is so precious.
Ah yes, I did make the graphic, that is a good call on sharing. The concept isn't mind, but I did make the image using Canva. Thanks for the type. And thanks for reading, I am sure gonna miss reading to her, but I think she will be close school-wise, so we should be good ;)
Hey Derek. What are your thought on agile project management like Scrum versus something like PRINCE2?
At Sporcle we are more Kanban than anything. When I was at Adobe, they had _just_ started to embrace Scrum. I love Scrum, but it is a touch too process heavy for our company culture. Aaand I know too many people that see Scrum as some kind of religion, but there is so much about it that just makes sense. I steal from it often in what we do.
This is awesome and I especially love the bonus Dr. Seuss trivia! I recently learned the Frankenstein origin story, which is similar (it all started with a bet). Definitely a lesson worth learning here. I find I deliver some of my best work when I have the clearest constraints.
I'm new to Substack — still finding my voice and my favorite themes as a writer. Even here, I notice how much more my words flow when I set a clear intention or have a specific audience in mind (rather than try to talk about everything, all at once, to everybody). Thank you for this reminder!
Yeah I am fairly new here as well and each week I feel like a bit more opens up for me. And gosh, sure seems like creative endeavors could just benefit from more gambling.
Like the graphic! Did you create it? I think this is a nice way to stand out from the crowd. Make sure to add the name of your publication if people share it (via Pinterest or another platform).
I liked the last part with your daughter the most. Why? It's HUMAN. It makes me connect with you. You let me in your life and tell me about reading to your daughter... who is 18 (!). Wonderful!
I miss my toddler already. Sprending time with our kids is so precious.
Ah yes, I did make the graphic, that is a good call on sharing. The concept isn't mind, but I did make the image using Canva. Thanks for the type. And thanks for reading, I am sure gonna miss reading to her, but I think she will be close school-wise, so we should be good ;)
I was about to say the same thing about the graphic. When I was reading and saw the graphic my thought pattern went like this:
“ohhh, cool graphic”
“I wonder where he got it”
“wait, there’s no attribution here”
“Derek surely didn’t steal it!”
🤯 in confusion and ambiguity!