Richard Griffiths

New Team, New You. Your first job isn’t to “fix” things - it’s to understand them. Spend the first sprints mapping strengths, bottlenecks, and culture. #Scrum #Agile #NewTeam

I’m taking photos of the rain so when the drought returns I can delete them to save water.

First Week as a Scrum Master? Listen more than you talk. Observe team dynamics, language, and unspoken rules before making changes. #Scrum #Agile #NewTeam

Front entrance to Blackhall Place. The former King’s Hospital School, now home to the Law Society Of Ireland #NewOffice

#NewOffice

If you're doing all the agile "ceremonies" but still struggling, maybe it’s time to revisit the why, not the how. #Agile #Philosophy #CeremoniesNotCeremonies

We are recruiting!

An exciting new opportunity has opened up here at Gladstone’s Library.

We are looking to recruit an Archivist who will work in the Library’s busy Reading Rooms. Working in a team of five, this role is a mix of public-facing and office-based work.

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Agile is less about standups and sprints, more about listening, adjusting, and delivering value every step of the way. #Agile #Philosophy

The 3 made for TV movies with Noah Wyle? There's 2 TV series - The Librarians (2014–218) and The Librarians: The Next Chapter (2025–present). I have the DVDs for the 2014 and the new one is available via TNT and I assume other less official options (doing my best Robert Newton impersonation).

Re-watching #TheLibrarians. I’ll just watch one episode before bed. Me at 3 AM, still watching.

This is the single best piece I've read on "replacing coders with AI," it fully dispells the myth from the perspective of a software engineer and does so in a calm, reasonable way.
colton.dev/blog/curing-...

Michael Williams (left) and Clive Merrison in costume for a promotional shoot for Sherlock Holmes (1989 radio series). BBC Radio 4, with the excellent Bert Coules as head writer.

The best radio dramatization of the same ...

High performance doesn't come from pressure. It comes from clarity, focus, and space to do the work well. #Delivering #WorkLessPainful #Agile

In conversations on here, the strongest defenders of the Online Safety Act seem to be the ones who know the least about what it actually does.

Agile isn't a process. It's a mindset. A commitment to value, feedback, and trust over bureaucracy and control #Agile #Philosophy

The White House becomes Mar-a-Lago North.

TV aerial in commemorative Daniel O’Connell stamp is ‘visual signal’ to modern age, not product of AI, says An Post Graphic artist says inclusion of modern image in 19th-century Dublin scene was deliberate and not AI-generated as claimed

www.irishtimes.com/culture/art/...

imagine a tobacco company urged governments to embed smoking a 'core component' of a healthy lifestyle

You mean apart from raising GDPR and privacy alarm bells, an increased risk of data breach, false sense of security, biases, and a general barrier to access for users?

Part of the 2nd An Post commemorative Daniel O'Connell stamp, showing a TV aerial in the 1800's

An Post has launched 2 commemorative Daniel O'Connell stamps. Spot the TV aerial in the 1800's #NiceOne #AnPost

Nuclear war, civil defence, societal collapse, government inadequacy followed by a second go at the collapse of society, medical breakdown, famine, radiation, and environmental ruin The War Game 1965 and Threads 1984

Thanks #BBCFour ... there's a nightmare of an evening coming up #TheWarGame #Threads

Keep it simple. Scale only what adds value. Reduce dependencies instead of managing them. Grow real trust & autonomy. Use frameworks as tools, not rulebooks. #Agile #Scaling #ToolsNotRules

Tom Lehrer made all of his music 100% public domain so if seeing people sad about his death makes you want to check them out… it’s free. he wanted you to share them.

tomlehrersongs.com

Rather than CompSci, I wish I'd done Organizational Psychology (aka WTF are you doing) followed by History (WTF are you doing again)? #History #Psychology

Rather than CompSci, I wish I'd done Organizational Psychology (aka WTF are you doing) followed by History (WTF are you doing again)?

swift and ball winder

Since this was bought, I'm not needed any more ... FREEDOM!

Today is the giant internet swaparoo. Lots of people trying to VPN *out* of the uk. Lots of people outside the uk now trying to find a VPN back *into* the uk that will reactivate BBC Sounds.

Agile works when culture changes — trust, experimentation, empowered teams. Complex frameworks can trick leaders into thinking they “did Agile” by rolling out a process, not a mindset. #Agile #Scaling #OrgDysfunction

Photo of Tom Lehrer

My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.

"Yes, BUTTER. Not margarine. BUTTER. Made from CHURNED CREAM. It's solid at room temperature. Yes, that's right. And it can be salted, but if you're cooking with it, use UNsalted. Got it? Good."

Clarified butter, there.