Tim Burns
User Story Mapping
I was reading LinkedIn comments and posting and ran across a post that referenced Jeff Patton's "User Story Mapping." I hadn't heard of...
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Tim Burns
Agile Thoughts of the Day
This Dog understands Persistence Agile belongs to developers. It's our methodology and tool for working with customers in a better way. ...
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The Mentor who inspired my interest in "Nonnumerical Analysis"
In my excellent and satisfying job as a "Data Architect, " most of what I do is explore data with "nonnumerical analysis." I've been...
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Integrating Snowflake with Glue
Snowflake is an excellent modern database that couples the power of traditional SQL with modern data lake architecture. AWS Glue is a...
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I wasn't a good student
I filled out a form a few days back where they asked about my college transcripts. It made me realize that I wasn't a good student in...
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AWS and Snowflake - DevSecOps Style
I find many articles whose purpose is to check a box on a feature checklist. Yes, (check), Snowflake does integrate with Glue. It...
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Taking back Scrum - Defects Over Stories
I describe myself as a reluctant Scrum enthusiast. Scrum is a great agile tool if you recognize it as a feature lifecycle process and...
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Treat Service Passwords like Cattle - Not Pets
The Author believes Passwords should be Easy as Cake Most people understand the value of treating servers like cattle, not pets. It's...
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Olympics Person-Level Data
The Author at Rhode Island Fencing Club As a fencer am getting excited about the Olympics This Summer. As a data scientist, I am...
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Product Owners and Accountability
I am returning to a Product Owner role on a Scrum team and it excites me. Scrum is a true software development process and it belongs in...
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The AWS Solutions Architect Exam is a Marathon
Photo by Miguel A. Amutio on Unsplash The AWS Solutions Architect exam is a marathon. I had no idea what I was in for when I signed up...
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A Door Opens and I feel Optimism and Hope
Photo by Jan Tinneberg on Unsplash I found out I’m leading up a new Scrum team at the same time many of us are getting vaccinated, going...
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When a Secret is No Longer a Secret
Least Privilege on Shared Systems Photo by Ben White on Unsplash Extending secure access on a heterogeneous system can be complex. One...
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Data Vault Model
Photo by Engin Akyurt on Unsplash Background on the Data Vault The Data Vault Model is useful when you have evolving dimensional star...
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Disaster Recovery Article Takeaways
Montparnasse Derailment I'm reading Disaster Recovery of Workloads on AWS: Recovery in the Cloud. It's a great article! I'm struggling...
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Interesting Security Blogs
A couple of interesting security blogs: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/ https://shehackspurple.medium.com/
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Plan-Do-Check-Act
Image from PDCA - Wikipedia Walter Sherwart and W. Edwards Deming were two American engineers who founded modern statistical quality...
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JetBrains Security Breach
While I was hoping to spend a focused day on development and writing, I was greeted by this: Widely Used Software Company May Be Entry...
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Agile is the new Taylorism
I ran across an article in Medium that draws interesting parallels between Taylorism and modern Agile Scrum. Tobias Higbie The Labor Age,...
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This Machine Kills Fascists
My Work in the New Year Woodie Guthrie famously had "This Machine Kills Fascists" painted on his guitar. He stood up to Fascism whenever...
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