Brandon Aaskov

Brandon Aaskov

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Learning Anything via Middle-Out

This is not what this article is about :)This is not about Pied Piper’s famous (and fictional) “middle-out compression.” [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l49MHwooaVQ] Sorry to let you down. Instead, I’m making a point: that we learned “how to learn” the wrong way, and it’s not our fault. When we (as humans) were doing our formative learning, we learned from the very baseline up. “Here are letters, these are numbers.” It was only later that we started to combine them to form more complex ideas,

Ignore Your Burndown Charts

Burndown charts are a popular aspect of the Sprint methodology and why wouldn’t it be: it’s a chart [https://giphy.com/gifs/LedVYzRx24nkI]. Business people [https://cl.ly/rCO1] love charts! Ironically, the goal of this simple chart is to get all the stories done and reach 0 in time, and that flies in the face of everything it means to be agile and productive. A Quick Recap This is a burndown chart. The gray line is the “ideal” trending line for stories to be “burnt down [https://gph.is/1U1c6Fn

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