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Jeffrey Fredrick, Author-Agile Conversations08:10:22

I wonder if I’ll be the only person interested in pre-conference drinks tonight… 😄

Jeffrey Fredrick, Author-Agile Conversations12:10:04

Tonight I think I’m still on London time. Or at least I’ll start on London time. 😄 Tomorrow I’ll switch to Vegas time.

Ferrix Hovi - Principal Engineering Avocado - SOK (S Group)12:10:25

Okay, so 15:00 Helsinki time is not optimal since I am running a Scrum simulation for students... So 18:00 London time is an opportunity tomorrow.

Ferrix Hovi - Principal Engineering Avocado - SOK (S Group)12:10:51

Oooh, of course. I should have ignored the tool. It seems I get distracted by the impeccable UX which highlighted 15 despite the URL parameters. 😫

Jeffrey Fredrick, Author-Agile Conversations15:10:42

On my first encounter I remember finding it pretty slick. Doesn’t seem like that now.

Nick - developer at BNPP06:10:10

Define “tonight”. Has it already happen?

Nick - developer at BNPP06:10:52

Bummer. Well, I’m sure I will have plenty of opportunities more ))

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Nick - developer at BNPP06:10:43

I’m trying to switch my internal clocks to PDT for the next three days.

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Nick Eggleston09:10:09

Looking forward to it “tonight” ;)

Jeffrey Fredrick, Author-Agile Conversations14:10:19

I ended up staying awake until 05:00 London time to start on that journey. 😄

Vaidik Kapoor (Speaker) - Technology Consultant08:10:51

I am in Indian timezone so I guess it will be breakfast time for me. Happy to hangout though 😄

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Jeffrey Fredrick, Author-Agile Conversations09:10:23

I just wrote in my gratitude journal how fortunate I am to be able to take part in an event like this with people all over the world. Coming back to your comment @kapoor.vaidik feels like the perfect confirmation of that thought!

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Nick Eggleston09:10:55

How does the gratitude journal work and benefit? Sounds interesting...

Jeffrey Fredrick, Author-Agile Conversations14:10:45

Short version: in the journal write three things that you’re grateful for. Could be large, could be small. From what I’ve read gratitude journaling has a significant predictable impact on our happiness. I believe it is because we practice seeing things to be grateful for and work to bring them to mind, so they become a more significant part of our life.

Nick Eggleston16:10:32

That makes sense as it focuses the mind on positive things. I find following @humanprogress on twitter helps my keep a positive frame on the world, given the bias toward negativity in most modern media.

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Jeffrey Fredrick, Author-Agile Conversations16:10:30

I don’t read the news for exactly that reason. Tip: set your location in Twitter to Fiji to remove a bunch of noise from the Trends For You section.

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Nick Eggleston23:10:05

Ooooo I'd never thought about changing "location". thanks!

Vaidik Kapoor (Speaker) - Technology Consultant10:10:47

awesome @jtf! what is your timezone? What time do you want to hangout?

Jeffrey Fredrick, Author-Agile Conversations10:10:50

I’m London based, currently in BST / GMT+1. How’s 17:00 London / 09:00 Las Vegas / 21:30 India @kapoor.vaidik? https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingtime.html?iso=20201012&amp;p1=136&amp;p2=127&amp;p3=771

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Vaidik Kapoor (Speaker) - Technology Consultant10:10:13

Works for me. See you (and others) then.

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Jeffrey Fredrick, Author-Agile Conversations11:10:14

Terrible idea for a DOES drinking game: drink every time someone talks about structures and dynamics.

Jeffrey Fredrick, Author-Agile Conversations11:10:14

Terrible idea for a DOES drinking game: drink every time someone talks about structures and dynamics.

Jeffrey Fredrick, Author-Agile Conversations11:10:31

full disclosure: you’ll be taking a drink during our talk

Ferrix Hovi - Principal Engineering Avocado - SOK (S Group)12:10:04

Why not drink on "incident" or "management" as well?

Jeffrey Fredrick, Author-Agile Conversations12:10:54

An answer to the question: “how could we make this game even more devastating?”

Ferrix Hovi - Principal Engineering Avocado - SOK (S Group)12:10:57

I always take a sip when somebody dares to add the redundant Sec

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Sophie Weston12:10:18

DevOps Bingo

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Jeffrey Fredrick, Author-Agile Conversations13:10:30

We need a few more to make up the complete card… More suggestions?

Sophie Weston13:10:32

Flow, shift left, feedback loop, value stream

Luke Rettig - Target13:10:33

COVID and virtual in the same sentence

Nick - developer at BNPP15:10:35

CAB. Change freeze. Segregation of duties. Let’s not forget where we came from :)

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Rob Cuddy - DevSecOps Evangelist17:10:07

DevSecOps for sure... and @ferrix "Gene and I" is comedic gold. How about references to Phoenix Project and Unicorn Project characters? Like if someone references "Brent" or "Maxine" or "Kurt"...

Kellie, NowSecure13:10:15

Save the Date: Wednesday, Oct. 14th at 5:30pm PST. Hope you can join us!

Jeffrey Fredrick, Author-Agile Conversations16:10:29

It is @ferrix! I think @kapoor.vaidik may be around as well

Ferrix Hovi - Principal Engineering Avocado - SOK (S Group)16:10:39

I'll put the kettle on. It seems the support team has failed to read my "Get Beer" Kanban card.

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Jeffrey Fredrick, Author-Agile Conversations16:10:27

Getting a bottle open for my bottle of Old Peculier

Vaidik Kapoor (Speaker) - Technology Consultant16:10:33

where are we hanging? is someone starting a zoom or something?

Jeffrey Fredrick, Author-Agile Conversations16:10:46

Anything you’re particularly looking forward to Vaidik, Ferrix?

Jeffrey Fredrick, Author-Agile Conversations16:10:21

Good to aim for something you can count on!

Ferrix Hovi - Principal Engineering Avocado - SOK (S Group)16:10:02

While I have decided that I am not busy unless there is a real fire (flames, smoke, warmth, no fireplace), I have not had the time to find out what this round of DOES is going to be. I was not disappointed the last time and I am not intending to be disappointed this time either. Also, some of the discussions and BOFs were great and by definition serendipitous

Vaidik Kapoor (Speaker) - Technology Consultant16:10:29

Well, I sure hope it doesn't disappoint.

Vaidik Kapoor (Speaker) - Technology Consultant16:10:44

It's my first time at DOES. So I am really looking forward to it and excited to be here.

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Vaidik Kapoor (Speaker) - Technology Consultant16:10:12

I was planning to attend London in person. #dammitcovid

Ferrix Hovi - Principal Engineering Avocado - SOK (S Group)16:10:16

Haha. I am not excited to be here. I have been right here on this chair ever since the previous DOES 😄

Vaidik Kapoor (Speaker) - Technology Consultant16:10:38

As good as it gets these days. Out of work, I actually don't have much to look forward to back at home. So conferences are the new "positive" escape.

Jeffrey Fredrick, Author-Agile Conversations16:10:32

I enjoyed London immensely. This format with recording and the Slack backchannel was better for me than an in person conference.

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Nick Eggleston09:10:25

The virtual experience with London was better for me as well. As I lean toward introversion, I struggle to engage in the in-person events, especially as the group size increases. Also, being virtual allowed me to attend London (I’m in the US), especially since Travel wasn’t possible and I was paying out of pocket (having gotten the COVID-axe). I hope virtual/remote participation remains for the future and is well integrated into the experience. I do wish they would leave time between sessions for the q&a with the speakers to cadence naturally... Anyway, really glad to hear others prefer some aspects of virtual...

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Jeffrey Fredrick, Author-Agile Conversations16:10:56

I miss the in person conversations however I don’t think I’d want to lose the Slack channels in the future.

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Vaidik Kapoor (Speaker) - Technology Consultant16:10:16

Right. That is truly a good thing to happen to conferences.

Ferrix Hovi - Principal Engineering Avocado - SOK (S Group)16:10:35

I was at the summer cottage for London and that was nice. Due to working days and watching streams until I keel over, that's not going to be an option.

Vaidik Kapoor (Speaker) - Technology Consultant16:10:59

See what we are doing right now is not something that I would enjoy on Slack. Need a bar with good beer and people for conversations.

Vaidik Kapoor (Speaker) - Technology Consultant16:10:12

But the engagement on Slack while talks are on - that was great

Vaidik Kapoor (Speaker) - Technology Consultant16:10:28

I just attended ChaosConf. It was my first virtual conf. Great experience!

Ferrix Hovi - Principal Engineering Avocado - SOK (S Group)16:10:32

If you want to take this conversation to the audiovisual level, here's a zoom: https://aalto.zoom.us/j/64222655479

Rob Cuddy - DevSecOps Evangelist17:10:06

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Jeffrey Fredrick, Author-Agile Conversations17:10:56

shared for discussion in our pre-conference 🍻

Jeffrey Fredrick, Author-Agile Conversations17:10:35

I’m super excited about this paper, and the potential latent in learning from the periphery.

Jeffrey Fredrick, Author-Agile Conversations17:10:32

on view of Toyota as described in High Velocity Edge vs Taylorism is Toyota enables learning at the edges while Taylorism can only learn at the center.

Ferrix Hovi - Principal Engineering Avocado - SOK (S Group)18:10:52

This periphery thinking applies to organizations and within a mind. So, there is all that intuition that we can choose to ignore due to status.

Nick Eggleston09:10:16

Good read. I think there is a lot to unpack in what it brings up...