Tue 2025-07-29

Broken sleep, bad dreams i can't remember 

Woke at 7:30am which is close enough to my target 7am. I don't use an alarm (when i'm working from home)

Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoos in Healesville Far Reserve. I counted 7 of them, loud enough to hear over my single earbud

I decided to walk up to Boronia Rd for a proper sit-down, barista coffee – even tho it will make me late to login

HOW WE WORK

My first meeting of the day is generally a 10am stand-up with only 2 other people. We say what we did yesterday & what we plan to do today. If there are any blockers then we prioritise/escalate

CONTROLLING THE COSTS & DEADLINES

The project co-ordinator is not very experienced, out of his depth – which is common with project managers too. Every task is more complicated than they expect: More subtasks, more dependencies

TASK TRACKING SOFTWARE

We have tracking tools that could help them, in theory, although people tend to use the tracking tools in a way that doesn't help to communicate what they have seen, done, and plan to do next. A task can become blocked by something as foreseeable as a person overseas on a skiing holiday – let alone unplanned sick leave

Movie night at L's in concrete clayton. We watched The Running Man (1987) my favourite film. Big screen. Modern lighting. It was the best!