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No comment along the lines of: "ew, Python."

Nice. The embedded querying is neat.

I see the query language goes: `select ... from`

One thing I like about query languages that start with the "from" class is that then it's easier in REPLs to provide suggestions for what can be selected.

You type, say, `from people` and you can get a suggestion for `name`.

One thing I like to do is try to get all stories to be (approximately / more or less) the same size.

I.e., split and gather work so that you don't need to score them. Then you can still get some rough feel for capacity without the bother of sizing.

And if you do this, you shouldn't split hairs and be dogmatic.

It is worth noting that Scrum, for one, does not require (or even recommend, at least according to the latest Scrum Guide) story estimating or pointing.

I would agree that in practice all of those anti-patterns related to story estimating/pointing can work against the values of the Agile Manifesto.

What is Facebook?

This has bugged me for a long time.

My company complies with HITRUST. Many of the HITRUST controls are syntheses of controls found in NIST, ISO, and other organizations.

In some cases, I want to know where a HITRUST control comes from: But since I can't look at ISO without paying, I am blocked from understanding the provenance of some HITRUST controls.

I don't like that.

Nice.

Are the things under "Things I've changed my mind on" things you believe now, or have stopped believing?

(Can't tell which way the change of mind is.)

$8k/mo revenue is great, but what's the profit?

Need to add Ann Wollrath to this list. (Primary author of the RMI whitepaper.)

No! How could that be?