Someone suggested we have a “theme” for our weekly team Kanban. The first one was “under the sea”… It wasn’t pretty. It was funny though.
Update: “medieval” theme:
Update: “my country” theme:
Tag: work
Working from home
So it might have taken a viral apocalypse, but I’ve never been as productive as I am now. Maybe it’s a defense mechanism to hide in the bedroom as much as possible to avoid the chaos otherwise being wrought by the small person. In any case, my home kanban board is moving in the right direction with a very healthy “done” section.
My back says thank youuuuuu
I’ve been using a crappy kitchen chair to sit on while working from home. It’s been killing my back, so I loosened the purse strings and bought an office chair. Ben is so jealous that I got a gamer chair (if only because it was the cheapest option I could get in a hurry). It was only slightly delayed by the viral apocalypse, coming from Germany. It was also a bit of a pig to assemble, but so far has been worth every penny and sweat droplet because it’s super comfy.
Onions?
I was looking for a particular entry in my work calendar today when I came across a meeting item simply called ‘onions’. There is no other information associated with it. I must have created it. It’s in my private, personal, work calendar. For the life of me, I have no idea whatsoever what it refers to.
My handwriting is truly atrocious
With all the meetings I’m in remotely these days, I take a lot of handwritten notes and I go over them a posteriori to make sense of everything I capture.
Except in cases like this, where even I couldn’t make sense of my own chicken scratchings.
Incredibly, Katy is fluent in gibberish and deciphered enough of it so that I could remember that I wrote “send positive aspects of tool”.
In these times of troubles, CATS!
Is there anything more soothing than watching Pavel groom his toe beans?
Reenie is now my official meeting proxy. I’ve let the team know to expect her. Good thing though that Skype doesn’t feature smell-o-vision.
Last bit of wisdom:
Dr Strangework or how I grew to love remoting
Roko wanted all of us in the group to send him pictures of our home office setup. It’s going to be shown in the sprint review tomorrow. This is my contribution. At least I shaved yesterday :)
Bring your work to cat, indeed
One of the big issues of working from home is discipline and motivation.
This does not help.
Neither does this, when you come back from the bathroom.
But at least the telecommuting memes are amusing:
Working from home is the new normal
Given that I’ll be working from home for the foreseeable future, we rearranged some furniture to put the desk in the bedroom – out of the common living space – to allow me to teleconference in (relative) peace.
It also means that my kanban board is at work, so I’ve rebuilt it with what I had at hand. Yes, I could use a cloud solution but I’ve found that post-its on a board work best for me…
Take your work to cat month, indeed
