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PompeyThree wrote: Seriously to all the Yanks here, do you really not know what a Sausage Roll is?
Nope but more importantly, why does that surprise you? There are a lot of differences between our countries so not sure why you're flipping out over this one. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Just surprised that something so common here, is not known about there. It's a bit like discovering we don't what a Hot Dog or a Burger is for example.
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I'll bet you don't know what congo bars are.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I don't no. But that doesn't prove the point because you knew I wouldn't know what they were. the difference with Sausage rolls is I thought they were a world-wide thing.
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Are they bars that only serve Um Bongo[^]? 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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PompeyThree wrote: do you really not know what a Sausage Roll is?
I have no idea, and I don't want to know. You Brits eat the most disgusting things. 
Marc
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Well, I've just locked my account trying to VPN in to work. The reason: the caps lock key only works about about a third to a half of the time, and I've long found it easier to use than than shift when entering passwords.
Turns out the key does actually work, just the control-freaks at Apple don't want you to use it like the other keys - so they introduced a delay on the firmware. A delay which seems to be hovering around my average keypress length.
It is possible to switch this behaviour off - you need to disable and re-enable the key. For every keyboard you connect. Each time you log in. Or hack the system which, being a work computer, I don't fancy.
On my travels I found the usual Mac community help: https://discussions.apple.com/message/17211984#17211984[^] it's your fault expecting the key actually work like an elephanting key. Change yourself to accommodate the insanity. Could be the Apple user's mantra.
The machine itself has been fast and very stable - just lots of unecessary UI niggles like this, which is odd because Mac users always claim they are much better designed in this regard than other OSs.*
Apple Fans: Bring on the downvotes, I don't care - been working 12 hours straight and have now hit a brick wall instead of getting ahead as I hoped.
*Interestingly, the Windows VM I have been running is also fast and very stable - indicating that it's the hardware which is SNAFU'ing windows
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On the odd occasions that friends and family have asked me to do something on their iPads, the thing that gets up my nose is that the case displayed on the keys on the on-screen keyboard does not change when you press the shift/capslock as it does on Android. This makes typing a pain, especially when entering passwords that contain mixed case.
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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Does anyone use Planning Poker[^] this in their day job?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Link fail.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Fixed.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Link is incomplete. Should be: Planning Poker [^].
And no, we are simple drones that do what we are tasked to do by the pasty faced overlords.
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We do. We don't have the elaborate card set; we just type the numbers into an IM window (most of us work remotely).
We play pretty fast-and-loose with the various scrum practices, though. During PP, if a user story comes up that's related to a page I've been working on for the past 3 sprints, then my poker number is the only one that shows up in the window.
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Tried it once, ended up drunk and naked holding a pair of Queens...wait, I may have misunderstood the question.
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Yeah - see, that's what I was afraid of.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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In a more serious note, what I have done before that did work at the start of a project was a visualisation exercise "This project will have failed in 2 years time and we will be down a post-mortem. What will we be blaming"...it helped draw out some project risks we hadn't taken seriously enough yet.
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Some of us use the Scrum Poker app.
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I recommend the I Ching. Just today I asked it: "Should CodeProject upgrade its hardware before installing Windows 10 ?" [^]; the reply was Hexagram 18, "Ku," associated with "repairing the damage:"
"Winds sweep through the Mountain valley:
The Superior Person sweeps away corruption and stagnation by stirring up the people and strengthening their spirit.
Supreme success.
Before crossing to the far shore, consider the move for three days.
After crossing, devote three days of hard labor to damage control. What could be clearer than that, Chris ?
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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OK, I'm ditching the poker chips and grabbing some hex's
cheers
Chris Maunder
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We used to, but the last year or so, we've abandoned the scrum method for kanban. Don't miss the planning poker at all...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Yes
We use it reasonably informally (v small teams) but it works really well to get through estimations quickly - as ling as there's a scrum master to move things along when the devs start wanting to know 9,000,000 things about a tiny backlog item when they all agree anyway it's between a 2 and a 3.
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Yes we are doing it during the sprint planning with days as unit. We are a team with 5 developers and it works fine. It is also good to enhance the quality of the bug/issue description. If we cannot estimate a bug, it means it is not good defined. If we estimate a bug for more than 5 days we understand we should split it, and so on.
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We did at my previous company - IMHO about as effective as the magic 8-ball.
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I've done it, but found the whole story point thing a mess. We ended up equating 1 point to 4 hours of work. But I always tried to call out 4 or 6 
Hogan
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I do, we use it every week (refining stories one week & planning the next)
As a Scrum Master it is useful in as much as it allows me to estimate the work my team can complete in a two week sprint.
Sometimes it works really well, other times we over/under estimate, but it all evens out. Using poker and making sure that the team have a refined backlog that covers one and a half to two sprints of work allows me to make sure the team are fully occupied.
The second part to the Poker is making sure you get your velocity right for the team (another estimation) as giving them too much work is demoralising and giving too little means you are re-planning too often.
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