You need a financial advisor with the freedom to focus on your specific needs. Whatever your goals, Reid Potter can create a game plan tailored to you. Call Reid at 432-0777 at Pikeville, Kentucky to learn more. The East Kentucky Dream Center will be hosting a golf tournament Tuesday, September 20th at Stonecrest Golf Course to raise money and thank those who continue to sponsor the Dream Center. Everything that we do at the Dream Center is either through sponsorships, fundraising efforts, marketing techniques. So we really have to think outside the box when we try to raise funds for the Dream Center. We do this kind of also as a thank you to those that have supported us throughout the year. Just a fun day out of the office for the men and the ladies that come out and join us. We feed them a lunch. This year it's sponsored by Texas Roadhouse. Just a fun day out, we've got some good prizes and we really just, you know, we like to interact with those that play and just kind of let them know what they're supporting, who they're helping and our efforts for the rest of the year. The East Kentucky Dream Center provides hot meals to the community. They also provide many other resources. We do so much more at the Dream Center other than food and clothing. We take people to rehab. We help them get back into college. We help them get apartments. We help drive them to transitional living, sober living. So all the things that we do, you know, it's an income. It's an expense. So we also have to, we've got to fund that. So it's important to support us so we can support those that are struggling. If you would like to participate or sponsor the golf tournament, message the East Kentucky Dream Center on Facebook. For Mountain Top News, I'm Brianna Robinson.


What's up everybody JC of Rajasby's case race comm 2018 UDA supreme hardcore basketball random player 2 box break number 56 just sold out Remember chance of LeBron and Jordan autographs as this is a upper deck product 27 total spots everybody gets a random team a random player from the list below from Alan Iverson all the way down Is that Levine again at round work has been acting up. So we're just gonna use some physical dice And we're also gonna use psychic signs randomizers remember same thing as round the order the only thing is it doesn't tell me how many times I've randomized it so you just have to listen to my voice and See me physically do it. However many times we roll it So that's from Rodney down to Brian There you go three and a six So three six nine times So let's go nine times one 27 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 and 9 There you go nine times Dylan Down a Logan. All right, and let's go nine times now here Alan Iverson down to Zach Levine nine times 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 LeBron James at number one down to George curving chat you should talk to your local post office or Mailcare if you can There's times where we've gotten the delivery notification and for some reason it didn't even show up to the next day It could also be that they missed they put in the wrong mailbox Wrong peel box. 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Unfortunately. I hope it doesn't happen But could have someone taken your package from your mailbox So I guess that the best thing to do if it says it's delivered is I would contact your local post office and say hey You know talk to your mailman if you can't be like hey, what's going on this use it says it's delivered But I never got it. Maybe they may have delivered it to the wrong house, which that's happened an occasion. So The best thing you could do is just talk to locally your post office or mail carrier Or maybe your neighbors say hey, you know what I was expecting this box. They may have come into yours You know something like that No, I gotta use those right now All right This is 56 go by this break schedule right here All right, let's just close the trade window then cuz Todd doesn't want to trade George Graving for hardaway, right? Well if you're in 57 you're Paulie in that one. This is 56 What is the name tasking? Rolando Lewis is that's what it is. 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I'm gonna roll it One four five times and then we're gonna generate two numbers three four seven or ten So let's do this And it was one of the four five times correct Yes Three four seven ten one two three four five Seven and three three So four and ten will be the last two. All right. Good luck We ship out Tuesdays and Fridays. Wow. Look at that. We got a Michael Jordan relic though non-auto but a quad relic Joe Andresen With Michael Jordan and the next one DeMarcus Cousins little auto DeMarcus Cousins boogie Is Brian last bought mojo and it might just be a glitch chat Remember you can expect delays up to seven business days. We were told so that could be a glitch or something What is it? So they would have shipped out the fort. Yeah, that would have shipped out this week barely like Tuesday, right? Tuesday maybe Wednesday We ship out Tuesdays and Fridays, but sometimes there is overflow. So if it doesn't all get out by Tuesday It goes out by Wednesday So it could be a glitch Wow, we got Larry Bird Very nice Larry Bird Logan Callister look at that Enough Logan still up.  There you go, man. Yes. These are hard courts from the Charlotte Bobcats Court from their I think 2005 to 2013 the arena And we got Alan Iverson pieces of his quad jersey and Then like I said right here from Charlotte Bobcats authentic game use floor has been certified over deck from 05 to 2013 It's real real wood right here AI the answer Alan Iverson Where's Alan Iverson? There you go. Joe Andreessen. Nice And there you go guys This was a pretty hardcore random player two box break number 56 57 should be coming up in a little bit That'll be your last break in the night just these case breaks calm


Now, the Deputy Secretary of the United States Department of the Treasury, Wali Adeyamo, has made a cuts in visits to Nigeria. During the visit, he had an interactive session with Nigerians, highlighting the economic and cultural ties between the country and the United States. Plus, the Venezia correspondent, Immanuel Olubo-Bocon, was there and now reports. It was a large gathering of dignitaries and individuals at the Lagos Business School. The Deputy Secretary Adeyamo is the eyes-ranking Nigerian-American official and eyes-ranking member of African Dehaspira in the Biden administration. His visit to the country is simple, to highlight the economic and cultural ties between the two countries. The team of the events, which he's tagged, Nigeria Economic Relations, People, Entrepreneurship and Investment, creates an avenue to promote economic ties with Nigeria and the United States. In our remarks, the Vice Chancellor of the Atlantic University, Professor Enade Okuneda, speaks on the importance of international relations as a single country cannot stand on its own without help from others, especially the areas of economic growth and development. The United States is a major investor and trading partner with Nigeria, and we hope to see an enhanced trade and investment relationship between our countries with your visit to Nigeria. With economic relations and trade between both countries occurring at significantly high volumes, conversations between the Lagos Business School community and such an important trade and investment partner to Nigeria is most opportune. Wali Adeyamo elides the need for Nigeria and the United States to come together to promote international trade and boost Nigeria's security. He also discusses the opportunities available through programs like the African Growth and Opportunity Act, which has provided eligible sub-saharan African countries, including Nigeria, with duty-free access to the U.S. market for thousands of products. I'm here because unlocking Nigeria's economic success can transform not just a country but an entire continent. But in order for us to make progress, it is important for us to focus on reform. And there are, of course, many reasons why the U.S. remains committed to this partnership and the reforms that Nigeria needs to make, from our people-to-people relations to our shared values to our common economic and security interests. I want to spend the remainder of my remarks highlighting some of the steps needed for the type of growth that creates economic opportunity for the Nigerian people. First, Nigeria needs a stable Naira. You stop into any small business or market, and you will hear shop owners and customers bemoaning the lack of a stable currency. Unifying Nigeria's foreign exchange rate will also create the kind of macroeconomic stability that is essential to attracting foreign investment. The meeting breaks into our question-and-answer session. Saliant questions are raised on the contribution of the United States towards fostering support to the Nigerian government. As expected, the deputies secretary did justice to them. Foreign direct investment, including dollar-based foreign direct investment into the country. I think the early steps that the government has taken are important in terms of what they've done in terms of fiscal policy and what they've done in terms of trying to unify the exchange rate, but more needs to be done and they recognize that. I think the truth is that as companies around the world and the private sector becomes more comfortable with their approach, you would expect that Nigeria would be a destination for foreign direct investment because of companies like your own, but also because Nigeria has such a huge talent pool when it comes to labor and opportunity. As you know, or you may not know, President Biden had a chance to see your new president on the sidelines of the G20 and talk about the security situations in the region and how we can deepen our relationships. We look forward to continuing those conversations because we know that in many ways security and economics are very tied together. Emmanuel Uluububukun, Plus TV News.


Hello and welcome to the session I am Deepika here. Let's discuss a question which says a chord of a circle of radius 12 centimeter subtends an angle of 120 degree at the center find the area of the corresponding segment of the circle. Use pi is equal to 3.14 and root 3 is equal to 1.73. Now in this figure AB is a chord of the circle and this region ABB is called a segment of the circle. Now we know that area of the segment ABB is equal to A of the sector OABB minus area of triangle OAB. So this is the key idea behind our question. We will take the help of this key idea to solve the above question. So let's start the solution. Now we are given a chord of a circle of radius 12 centimeter of 120 degree at the center and the area of the corresponding segment that is the area of the segment ABB. Now according to our key idea area of segment ABB is equal to area of sector OABB minus area of triangle OAB. So let us give this as number 1. First we will find the area of sector OABB. Now we know that theta is equal to theta upon 360 into pi R square theta is 120 degree. So this is equal to 120 upon 360 into 3.14 into 12 into 12 centimeter square upon cancellation we have this is equal to 3.14 into 48 centimeter square or this is equal to 150.72 centimeter square. Now let us give this as number 2. Now we will find the area of triangle OABB. Let us draw the triangle separately. Now for finding the area of triangle OAB draw M perpendicular to AB. In triangles BM we have OA is equal to OB, radii of the circle OM is equal to OM common. So by RHS congruence condition triangle OAM is congruent to triangle OBM hence is the midpoint of AB angle AOM is equal to angle BOM is equal to half of 120 degree which is equal to 60 degree. For the area of triangle OAB we have a formula that is equal to 1 by 2 into base AB into height OM. So for finding the area of triangle OAB we want OM as well as AB that OM is equal to x centimeter. So in triangle AM we have M upon OA is equal to now this is 60 degree and this is also 60 degree over equal to 1 by 2. Therefore x is equal to 12 upon 2 which is equal to 6 centimeter. Now also we have OA is equal to sine 16 upon 12 is equal to root 3 by 2 as sine 60 degree is root 3 by 2. Therefore AM is equal to 12 root 3 by 2 or this is equal to 6 root 3 centimeter. Hence AB is equal to which is twice AM because AM is the midpoint of AB is equal to 2 into 6 root 3 centimeter which is equal to 12 root 3 centimeter. Therefore area of triangle OAB is equal to into AB into OM. Now AB is equal to 12 root 3 centimeter into OM which is x centimeter and this is equal to 6 centimeter. Hence area of triangle OAB is equal to 36 root 3 centimeter square. Now the value of root 3 is 1.73. So this is equal to 36 into 1.73 centimeter square and this is equal to 62.28 centimeter square. Let us give this as number 3. Now on substituting the values from in the triangle 1 we have area of segment ABB is equal to 150.72 centimeter square minus 62.28 centimeter square and this is equal to 88.44 centimeter square. Hence the answer for the ABB question is 88.44 centimeter square. I hope the solution is clear to you. Bye and take care.


We're good ahead all right, so this is the collaboration game time tested techniques for Agile release planning I am Andrew Lindsay the VP of product at New Mote Canadian company that does advocacy type working mainly with NGOs and Far to that I was at the Linux Foundation Open Media and McGill University and in all those contexts I've been working on Agile teams and True of that got a bunch of different letters attached my name that I have something to do with Agile and Scrum development and Yeah, keep running into problems and creating presentations as I find solutions for them And slides on bit.ly I had to collaboration So just a quick question is everybody in this room gonna working on Agile teams already and familiar with the Basics of all that is is there anybody that's not All right Maybe a little I'll go through very brief definitions just to make sure that we're all in Roughly the same page, but I'm not gonna Double into that stuff so much if anybody has any questions or anything. It's clarification. Let me know and I'll be happy to To do my best to clarify So Agile is a principled collaborative approach to Developing software products of some sort Scrum is an iterative framework for for building things quite often software and a sprint within Scrum is an iterative undertaking of building an allotment of software, I guess Usually two weeks long sometimes one sometimes three sometimes four User story often used in Scrum is a way of describing Something that we're going to to build usually takes the form of as X I want Y so that I can Z doesn't have to it's not meant to to To Completely utterly describe what it is that you're you're building or undertaking It's just meant to be a sort of a bookmark or placeholder for a conversation about what it is You're building something to remind you of the specifics of what you're undertaking so that you can have that conversation with the stakeholders with other development teammates that sort of thing a product backlog Giant list of all the things that you want to build over time use your order from top to bottom bite by business value prioritized by what you're going to take on first what's going to give your organization or stakeholders your customers the most immediate Value and things that are you know more debatable at the bottom of that list and then sprint backlog every time You go into one of those iterations in Agile. You're sitting down with the development team and you are you are agreeing to a sort of contract of the the things you're going to take on in your your sprint to your iteration your two-week period whatever it might be and and making sure that they're brought into the sprint with an appropriate level of detail and The whole thing looks roughly something like this. So I'd say in two weeks. You're doing a big circle where the start of that circle you're You're having a sprint planning meeting and you're going through the things you're adding to your sprint backlog making sure that they fit in with the Empirically determined capacity that your team has in story points or whatever, you know the measurement you've chosen to work with and Doing cyclical daily Developing where you're usually doing stand-up or something like that to check in with your team and make sure that everything's on track and at the end of that doing sort of a Demo where you're saying this is what we built and this is how it sort of meets what we're aiming to build and usually also something like a Retro where you're Coming in looking into your processes and saying how can we be more efficient about what we've done here and to improve it as we go into our Our next iteration so we're constantly improving All that makes sense to everybody the norm So Who here is doing something along the lines of agile release planning currently? It's not everybody. I so I got my my scrum master certification Think darn near ten years ago, and it was a three-day Processes that often is in the first two days covered pretty much everything in scrum and the third day was like this tacked on Release planning workshop that I couldn't make it because I had some sort of social conflict or something like that and And so admittedly for the first few years that I was working in agile release planning wasn't something that I gave a whole lot of Attention to probably because I missed that day of the work from But I think I've come to realize over time that it's it's something that if employed correctly solves a lot of problems That came up for me without having it as a tool in my toolbox so to speak So it's it's more Longer or medium-term planning. It's it's typically three to six months increments Place like currently where we do it at a quality level quarterly level. I think that's fairly common it's badly named because In a day in an age where we're doing continuous integration continuous deployment a lot of us or at least You know maybe deploying more frequently than once every quarter It doesn't make a lot of sense in terms of being tied to when you're actually releasing software or whatnot but it does make a great deal of sense in terms of being able to have some sort of medium-level opportunity to look at what you're you're building out and to To develop a picture that your sprints in a given quarter or a given release can flow from So how does release planning differ from sprint planning? Sprint planning as I mentioned one to four weeks often to release planning three to six months often three Sprint plans typically we're trying to set those in stone, right? Because it's a it's a contract between the dev team and and stakeholders the business side of the organization about what we're going to achieve and say to be period so we Occasionally you know something comes up very urgent We haven't built an appropriate padding for it or something like that and then it has to be undertaken But we resist as much as we can typically changing that sprint plan so that we can Accomplish what it is that we set out to accomplish at the start of that two week period that was Release planning on the end is kind of the plan that doesn't survive the battlefield so to speak it's Something that you look at at a medium level maybe in three month increments, but Recognizing that the agile is about fluidity and that things are going to change and that It's about being able to Be versatile and to react to different needs that come up as you're building out a product that sort of a thing So it is something that's it's not necessarily looked at as a sort of Unchangeable as is a set in stone granularity It's kind of interesting with this plan with with sprint level planning when we're trying to plan out a spread We want to make sure that we've got an exceptional level of granularity ideally anything that comes into our sprint when we're going through that Sprint planning process. You know we've had everybody in the room or On the zoom caller where it is where you're doing your sprint planning Pitching to make sure that that would sort of consider it from all angles that we detail what it is and we're building out that That that any sort of unanswered questions are answered so that when we actually start doing the work We've got as much information as possible. Not that we're not going to have conversations and and go back and reconsider things This is we go through the sprint, but we want to have granular small tasks or tickets that we're taking on in this print so that it's Allowing us to do that detail level of work Whereas with release planning it's it's more at the epic level The picture high level although there are opportunities as you're doing release planning to get more detail and to Start to get more granularity as you're putting that stuff together Any questions on any stuff so far make sense So our product backlog if we're not doing release planning, this probably still looks pretty familiar It's it's more granular at the top less granular at the bottom But we can see here, you know our latest release has a granularity at the top and Our releases are typically you know lined up linearly against that back. So I asked the question what sort of problems Do we think we might encounter? If we're sitting down in a room full of stakeholders or customers or whoever really is involved in these conversations in your Context trying to to move a conversation forward that sort of medium level about What it is that we're going to do in the next three months and what our priorities are going to be and and What we're going to undertake anyone have any ideas around that or or Go back some stakeholders will only exist in the perpetual now and for them everything is now and My experience Some of them will try to jam their idea of what should be real now into Into all conversations. And so if you sit down with them and try to talk long term Sometimes people are very focused on various specific outcomes and not willing to divert their attention to with their eyes to the horizon and see a little further Sounds accurate, and I think that the perpetual now part makes it sound very sort of zen as well Did you have something to add as well I See that for sure and and I think again with Agile as opposed to waterfall It's you know people may still be used to sort of getting promised this this very strict set of things that were good build out Not that we necessarily regularly cheap that what we were doing waterfall stuff in the past anyway, but Yeah, any other thoughts Yeah, I think that's what brought me to this myself I can remember In previous organization, I worked for where there were three very distinct departments and and we had Development resources to serve really only one dev team And then so there were often Conversations about you know, where should we split our focus over the course of the next three months? Should we undertake this large-scale initiative for? For department one and the expenses of the department to department three I think especially small organizations, you know, if you've only got one dev team If you've got a limited amount of money to spend if you like an awful lot of small organizations like an awful lot of startups if you've got really big ideas You know Company I work for now. We have Absolutely no lack of ideas about things that we want to do it. It's it's a very substantial list so Oftentimes it's it's trying to figure out, you know, where is that business value for the organization as a whole? As opposed to you know, this one particular initiative the one you're taking or things like that And so I've kind of think of it in terms of This is a little bit sort of tongue-in-cheek but this sort of disgruntlement Triumvirate and that You've got multiple stakeholders. You've got divergent needs and you've got limited development capacity and so I went searching for solutions on on how to address that and Really it was was in agile release planning that I I Found answers that have worked for me And then those center around things like ensuring that all stakeholders have an opportunity to share their viewpoints. You don't have One particularly vocal Person a group of persons sort of out chatting everybody else in the conversation considering all the sort of candidate Opportunities or bits of work that you can undertake from a variety of perspectives Empowering the stakeholders themselves to make these decisions and in a collaborative process and not a competitive process And and so in most respects where I found the most successes is looking at at Things that fall into the category of games and in agile planning. I suspect a Lot of you folks probably do like Scrum poker story point estimation that sort of a thing so things that extend from that tradition and that that have a similar benefit I Did my My P&P before I started getting into which is like a fancy project management certification before I started getting into Scrum and agile in a big way and and There was a period of time that I understand it in the 90s where it was really in vote to if you were like a Big organization three had a person IT team to to bring in consultants To do something called a wide-band Delphi estimation, which was you would pay this consultant group to come in and they would like Grab each developer and isolate them in an interview room and ask them all sorts of questions about estimating How having a particular piece of the product we were building out would take to To build out and then they would compile that data and run different algorithms against the nice bozer or something like that But they would try to to merge all those estimates together without having at least initially a significant influence of one person against another and and I think the brilliance of that sort of storybook game is that it Captures all that stuff that people were maybe paying way too much money for in the 90s and to the single back of cards that people are sitting around a table Working collectively with in a short period of time in a room without necessarily needing to to bring in an external party, so I've been fond of it and yet fond of processes that sort of emerge from it as well So you know a very basic way of starting to look at your work and this is maybe more of an organizational tool than a game is Is just trying to divide things up into to four categories, you know looking for those things that fall into the High business value and and low effort because we know that That's where we get our maximum benefit typically, you know, there's always exceptions to things But if you can do something in five hours that Give you eight points of business value. How are you measure business value? Definitely seems like the sort of thing to consider tackle And Talking about scrum poker brings us to to business value. Is that something that anybody else anyone here's worked with before? So a few people very similar to scrum poker except you're getting the People on the business side of the conversation not to estimate the complexity of the the user stories that you're undertaking or the Time involved with them you're getting them to estimate the value that they're going to bring to the Organization or if they're your customers the value that they're going to bring to them as as customers It's a very similar process everybody's got a deck of cards and You're going around the room and saying you know describing this thing as much detail as you can this is this is the new widget that's that's gonna Change the world for us and and here's why and then everybody puts down their They're part of the same time and use a simple calculus to figure out What the business value is and that might look something like this if we've got Jennifer Muhammad and Pierre and Darcy and My other things we're looking at is rebranding everything Jennifer thinks it's five Two Darcy thinks it's three they're all within Within one or two points of each other on this modified Fibonacci scale and so We take the one with the most votes essentially we take take the three event system Super valuable the Mohammed Jennifer thinks that it might not add any value to the organization In fact, it might harm the organization somehow to have an event system And they're so far apart That they're much like in scum poker They have to come back and have a conversation usually starting with the people that are on the the far right with so Mohammed can explain where that extraordinary amount of business value is coming from and Jennifer can explain Why it is that she thinks that there's there's no business value there at all and then after that conversation has had you estimate again ideally come to a No place of balance where people have sort of met in the middle so to speak Makes sense Innovation Games is a book a fella named Luke Homan Wrote almost ten years ago And a lot of things I'm gonna talk about today come out of it not all of them by any means but he was focused more on Sort of sales driven conversations, but but I think that most of what he put together is still relevant and The sort of release planning conversations that that we're talking about So remember the future is I Think an album title by German Prague band, but also a Game that this gentleman came up with and the notion is that You get let's say you've got five people in the room together and you're all sort of brainstorming about what to do with the product to improve it to move it forward to sort of come to a place of Perfection or near perfection so you all take a look in your Imaginations and where the product is in the future. Let's say five years down the road ten months down the road three months down the road whatever makes sense and then you take post-it notes or some other mechanism and you You List the different features you're gonna have to add to the product in order to get it to that that new vision that you've come up with yourself and And let's say you had up with five or six post-it notes out of the deal You keep them to yourself at first when everybody's done that process. It's sort of like scrum poker or business value poker Everybody reveals you know, they're their chief of post-its and and then you start looking at where there's overlap so if Bob and Jane both came up with with a few tickets around an event system You look for the ones that match you look for the ones that are you know, Jane had one idea That was a little bit different and Bob had one that was a little bit different and you bring together these these these post-its to form a sort of centralized vision from from everybody's input shape the product tree So this is an interesting way to take the results of something like that to remember the future game and to to group them together sort of overlapping the product as it currently exists to get a sense of Of where the balance is in your ideas So typically what you do is is create a tree like structure on a board or a wall or something like that And you cluster your post-it notes on it with the ones that represent either functionality that you currently have or functionality that's sort of like step two to get to step three Closer to the trunk of the tree and things that are farther out The the tips of the branches so to speak and it becomes an interesting exercise because you can sometimes see that that this particular branch with this particular cluster of ideas is sort of over elated with With different post-it notes and this one over here has has less so maybe it allows you to spot gaps in your thinking or what you've been Considering in terms of building out these things it allows you to spot, you know Maybe we're giving too much focus to this particular part of the product at the expense of something else just gives you an opportunity to To view things through that that lens of balance sailboat allows you to Take that product after you sort of decided what is your building and spot things that will allow you to to sort of speed up Your development of it and things that might slow you down so maybe it takes the form of a picture like this forgive my rudimentary Skeption But you got some post-its to represent things that I saw that sailboat for so Is is whatever it is you're building Things on post-its blowing into the sails or things that are going to propel you forward that are going to be beneficial to you like I don't know. Maybe this Library has been released that's going to make it extraordinarily easy to develop this particular part of the product or Anything along those lines anchors or things that are going to sort of slow you down. Maybe there's a bottleneck Review process somewhere that's it's going to be necessary here That's going to prevent you from working as sort of swiftly as you'd like to or it's going to force you to think about working in a In a slightly different manner or forming your iterations in a slightly different way and Sort of weird jagged thing and the right is meant to be an iceberg and then those are things that could you know totally tip over the boat and prevent you from Achieving success Does anybody familiar with the bleak strategies? sort of So Brian, you know the musician and Peter Schmidt the artist in the 70s I was doing these artistic projects and they were sort of looking for ways to to unblock themselves creatively or to find Scenarios where they weren't thinking of like everything they should be or you know just Opportunities to sort of change context swiftly and Get yourself unblocked or or find ideas. You might otherwise be ignoring and they created this deck of I think an end of being hundreds of cards where It was late night in the recording studio and they were sort of stuck on something they'd pull one out and it would Change their perspective and they'd move on There's sort of a similar thing It's been created by a gent called the Monchilio That could have pretty sure that's presentation Called 35 parts and I'll pass this around if you guys want to take a look at it his notion is that you would take this deck Shuffle it out to everybody that's at the table and sort of give everybody an opportunity to to weigh on on each of these 35 points and it's sort of a linear fashion I'm not actually convinced that that's actually the best application of the stuff But I really like this notion of having this sort of deck of cards that allows you to to pull out and identify Things that you might be missing or allows people in conversation to sort of flag things and and bring them to people's attention and they can be Anything you know the street samples up here making sure that in your estimation or whatnot that you're adding in Some slack time to account for the unaccountable How does this feature and make the user awesome pretty good question to ask stuff along those lines Stuff about just process making sure that you're You're taking appropriate notes making sure that you're estimating things properly making sure that your time boxing conversations probably things along those lines And then I think what is Very swiftly become my favorite and all of this stuff is the the hundred dollar game So anyone here played the hundred dollar game One person all right, so two people So notion with the hundred dollar game is Is you know, we've got that Situation that I described before you've got to say ten people sitting around the table and and they have Split interests and we have you know through our our agile work Purically identified that we've got a capacity of 35 store points a sprinter a hundred store points a quarter or whatever happens to be the store points are different for everybody but You know That there's no way you can be able to accommodate everything that's that's being asked for and and do you want to? to encourage a collaborative conversation in your organization about how to to Figure out what it is you're going to achieve over the The next quarter say the hundred dollar game allows everybody to be given a hundred dollars virtually And to bid on different features or different aspects of what it's what's being proposed to be built out over Over through the next quarter And that typically looks something like this where you've got your your five six seven eight nine ten twelve twenty however many things that you can undertake and And everybody goes through an exercise Simultaneously where they take their hundred dollars and they spend it on the thing is the most important thing and You know this case Jennifer super keen on the rebrand spends fifty on that and forty of bulk email Darcy spent zero on the rebrand When all the money is spent the registration system sort of wins out is the thing that That has the most votes and when I've undertaken this myself We've usually done it in a way where we do this first round where we don't actually speak a whole lot about Personal justifications and whatnot until the voting's finished Excuse me and then Then yeah, when this first boat is in like this We we go around the table and everybody explains Why they spent the money that they spent in the way that they've spent it And then we go back and typically do another round where people adjust their bids Based on the input that they've had from other people and I found this to be At least within our organization a really effective way to To define some guidelines for what we're gonna build out it Doesn't always a hundred percent You know end up being the sort of soul guiding factor in what we undertake, but more often than not What we bring into a given quarter is is pretty close to What's coming out of that conversation? Typically we're doing it in a room full of 8 to 10 people with people on the business side as well as people on the dev side taking part in the conversation and Yeah, it has been super effective for me Anyone want to try a quick round of a hundred dollar game? All right, so badly slash hundred dollar game Should give you access to a spreadsheet All right, feel free to I think everybody should have added access free to add yourself into a column and We'll do a quick round of bidding on On the things about it. All right, so I'm pretty keen on branding. Do I end it noon precisely? Must yeah, they're 45 minutes. I'm sorry a little bit more time I'm gonna bet 30 on the ol re-brand 20 on the event system I'm not particularly fond of bulking now Registration system to me is 25 The tier pricing also 25 down at the bottom of my spreadsheet. Yeah, my hundred total we can start Doing an average of these things over on the right-hand side and ultimately getting a sense of sort of where we're Where we're ending up Yeah, this is pretty much been our our process it's been effective so far So it gives people a sense of thing you don't find it's important to hide other people's votes during the process It's interesting because it's just But it has some level of influence and you're right. There was some sort of like for that first round blind process. It might be improved I haven't found that it's Felt like it's colored our Process too much so far, but I think I work with people that are Are fairly strong and their ideas going into these conversations, so They're there's probably less bendable at first. I definitely you can see it, you know You can see it in that second round change things and you can see people reacting as well too. There's you know Clearly not many people are putting dollars into this particular initiative I guess I will abandon my points there and put them somewhere more strategic that sort of thing, but I don't necessarily think that's a Problem Yeah, I'm sure it's a small degree of this There's a bunch of other Games along these lines is the worst consideration the product box where you sort of very quickly build up faux advertising for your product to sort of Come up with ideas about describing it and what it contains a start of your day We sort of work through the actual real-time use of a product over over different periods of time 2020 vision Where you sort of wanted a time sort Item a against item b in terms of importance and do that sort of binary choice thing all the way through the line to to sort out a list Kanban pizza game Which I'm not sure that I still fully understand but looks really interesting and Sort of an assembly line Look at how you might build something out and what needs to come first and whatnot And yeah a bunch of books here that have influenced my thinking on this and then a bunch of blog posts as well that I think have been useful and Go on to the slides Billy slash club version game That's it questions thoughts concerns go for so Typically convince people to sit down to play the game Participate What's that free coffee free coffee is a good idea So I'll say this and that in my most recent context of the Linux Foundation it's a New mode Not so much. Those are organizations of new modes We're less than 20 people the next foundation When I worked for them is maybe a hundred and sixty something like that in total and people are pretty Invested in seeing things associated with their organization forward. I Worked for Miguel University a long time and I don't need to say anything that anyway sounds disparaging, but I will Suggest that when you have you know 3500 People using the system that you used to build websites and the vast majority of them have very Well some some needs an alignment an awful lot of them that are are are spread out and Yeah, I think there were we're definitely situations there were where we struggled to To get everybody to participate Or even you know having contend with those numbers and how do you choose the right the right to the right registers edited So what now but that's more of like a fairly Unique massive organization problem. I think I mean more like I mean more like level of hostility rather than size, right? So in a context where you're meeting resistance, right? How do you have you contended with that specific issue? I don't necessarily mean Could be as could be an NGO. That's just where everyone thinks, you know, too busy What do you do? Is that ever it's not something the county possibly I don't think I've encountered it to the the point where I would describe it as a still it I definitely encountered it to the point of People feeling like it's it's something that that doesn't have merit or it's it's a distraction from the action conversation Typically I try and push swiftly into to an example like the hundred dollar game where you can in five minutes just sort of And then I think for the most part people tend to Get things like this when they see it demonstrated what they can see Okay, this is instead of me sitting here for five hours having a conversation Where it's pretty hard to To pull anything out of it. That's that's that's empirical. That's measurable We can start things off or at least early on in our process get into something where we can quantify very exactly What it is that we're trying to describe in terms of our own interests and way that might get the interest about others And I think when when people are brought to understand That that that it sort of has that simplicity to it that it has that Quantifiable descriptive quality to it. I think it sells itself Matt Give examples of times you've seen this process devolved and just could totally off the rails Man I think the closest examples I have to that are sort of two occasions either You know you end up with Let's say you've got the capacity to do six things or something like that And you end up with the top five on the list or the top four in the list are really Clearly obviously things that are sort of winning out, but then you've got four things under underneath that are Equal in their votes more or less and the way we saw that is just by doing additional rounds of voting till people sort of Get hip to the the fact that they have to have things one way or the other and then usually that's worked out I think we've also seen it get tricky and I'm fortunate to work for a company that's fairly balanced and it's approached bringing in opinions and Keen on collaboration between different teams and whatnot But you know you've got your completed list and then the CEO comes in or the CEO sort of the CEO comes in and And this is very keen on this one particular thing over over something else in those circumstances I've I've Generally resisted having that one opinion sort of outweigh everything else But I mean your company cultures perhaps different than mine and I I'll leave that to your personal Jesuit and Look for other solutions. So, you know, we may Bring in a small allotment of work to do research on something that we're not we're going to take in a future quarter to get The ball rolling on something that's been identified as particularly important to one particular person just to Which is always, you know doing a little bit of exploratory work without nature If you know that that it's very important for the company to say the next quarter round to Move that sort of thing forward is pretty beneficial as well Okay Because I'm wondering in a context where Things added back and some things may evolve and you know, that's a much of a priority And I think about like for example, the only thing where you need to some kind of factor code or Google managing or the little boring stuff That doesn't have much value for most people like marketing But at the same time is required and so I'm wondering how many times do you kind of run those games? Not every spring obviously because it would be way too much time But I guess once a month for me, well if you're a one-month sprint not much value So how many times do you run those games? So I would say we run that stuff just Once a quarter and and it's part of our our larger one or two-day quarterly planning process But we do So in addition to to building out a plan that accommodates You know, we're gonna take this and this and this and this on based on this conversation We've had in this plan that we've had we also tend to work with with Quarters and and buffers as we do I draw development. I think I did that Talk on this maybe four years ago that I might still have the slides for it I'll see if I can take those out for you, but And it's probably evolved the fair amount since then, but you know we We make sure that in every sprint we set aside seven points of our capacity for for unknown stuff and that might be security updates that might be stuff that's that's just from a Maintenance perspective should be prioritized, but is in no way glamorous like nobody really Cares that much about about whether your website is HTTPS Only until you know three months later and they suddenly notice there's SEOs tanking or stuff like that We will not put these in the in the point game. We will not game those like that We will just consider that we need these so let's play with the rest of the amount of development and See what would be the best business value of every other point. Yeah, and in the release planning. It's usually high-level Things and not necessarily small things that sort of fall into security maintenance So it would be you know, we want to treat this events. We want to create this This SMS system or something alumnus lines a sizable chunk of the product and then At the sprint level when we're doing that sprint planning and a regular basis home We're going through our backlog and you're rooming it. We are taking the time then to to estimate the amount of effort involved in doing like a security update or doing this AWS maintenance thing that's that's probably not particularly easy to communicate to all parties involved but yeah making sure that that stuff has a home and that it's not ignored and that it's Sort of safer that I think it's fairly important. We do that too with other things We make sure that we've got an allotment of work around UX that sort of goes beyond just hitting all the high bars we aim for with with all our regular development But something that allows us to go back and iterate and improve and make sure that we've got sort of a polish from from end to end across the system a little bit of time that's spent as well on a apps making sure that the site is properly accessible if There's ever something that somehow Yeah, you know just just Clean and how should I speak the stuff that should always be undertaken and every take of the better take anyway, but making sure that it's double-checked and kept solid You had another question, I think I did so Closing the loop or following up, you know After the fact right everybody sits down and plays the game and puts whatever That's they're going to put on whatever you know big feature Do you do any retrospective work with the results of this game? So You know now we went and we built it It was actually, you know the ratios actually work out like this Here's what we thought of us here's who turns out to be good at estimating Here's who where or here's the kind of thing we turn out to be good at estimating here are the kinds of things We don't this is there any a follow-up. I think I can I don't think I'm Sharing any great trade secrets or anything like that by displaying them. I'll go back to last year something just to To give a sense of things but usually what I do when we finish the release plan is I put together Something that reflects the report proposed plan after we've done some some high-law situation around it We put those totals together and then we try and fit those points into to whatever our shirt of empirically determined capacity And then I created another table that I've updated from sprint to sprint where we take a look at what we've actually done And how it sort of fit into what we said we were going to do and How it hasn't you know very often will you know, we're a young startup and And an opportunity comes along that we hadn't even thought of when we were in release planning and we'll change things And shift course and these numbers will shift. This is actually a pretty Pretty there's more extreme shifts here than we probably normally see but yeah, you can see here We decided to do this action page Thing and then you know halfway through building up. We decided we were going to make it way more fancy than initially anticipated and and the numbers on that sort of blew So yeah, we refer to this or a table like this every sprint And and when we're doing our sprint planning And even our demo usually refer back to it and you know, this is what we achieve This is what we talked about achieving and yeah, this is what we're sort of Keeping track of that way I think if you're ever looking to do another talk People would be interested to see in that part of it. Well, you know, yeah So we're not just playing these games and then throwing away right this point being like Not only does this help us figure out our business value today when we're doing the release plan But it also looks into this bigger process and here's what that bigger process looks like for us Well, it could be your particular case or whatever. I think people would be interested in Because I see a lot of frameworks out there in the agile market Talk about this front-end gaming But not talk about how do you change things as you go, but there isn't a lot of this like let's look back I Thank you everybody


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Let's get Roy Into the news Yo, there's so much drama. I need me to come out with a 2k drama alert this quick ladies and gentlemen We're just gonna jump straight into it. Hey, if you guys are new drop the like subscribe to the channel If you want to see more but that goes without saying hey for our first story of the day agent beam star is correct Once again ladies and gentlemen, I've mentioned multiple times on this 2k drama alert Listen if there's drama pull out a camera and record it most of the time people would want to see it I said the same thing about the NBA 2k league. It seems accidentally that they did just that Roll it Whoever decided to play the fight music the second the fight popped off that guy needs a raise immediately No hesitation. Listen, man I've been trying to say it's good for business that everybody and their parents have been tweeting about on Facebook Twitter YouTube You name it So if you haven't seen the clip I'll be surprised to be honest with you Troy Dan's clip alone already got 23,000 likes captioned LMA for yo. They out here fighting an NBA 2k 19 league somebody getting fine 200k VC but outside of the spectacle that is the drama Can we can we talk about what fab was doing right here? He looked at his teammates Hold on. He looks at his teammates. Oh, oh, it's time to go. Okay. All right Let's walk in this line and do handshakes with the people we just lost to No handout he just bumps into him instead of walking around him Listen, I understand if you're infuriated, man, you're like, man, we shouldn't have lost that game some bull Maybe maybe they're lagging because sometimes for some reason that happens in the 2k league At least get out of his way because when you bump into a guy way bigger than you And then you shove the guy way bigger than you you're getting glocked in most situations Well, listen, I don't know much about fab But I just know he just seemed like an awkward person in this situation A lot of people was telling me this fight was fake And I'm just telling you guys right now a lot of people in the suburbs fight like just that I know because I went to school with him.  I'm not a professional. Why would I say that? I haven't been in that situation. I would never do such a thing. I'm not that awkward I dropped my own tweet. I said told y'all drama is good for business Listen, I don't really care if it was staged or not to be honest with you I just care that more of it happens And you know what's crazy is I hear stories all the time of crazier Happening in some of these houses in these 2k league teams, but they keep it quiet, of course for appearance's sake, right? They don't want their brands to freak out because that's where they make most of their money And so I understand why the drama doesn't come out, but I'm just telling you whenever it does come out That's what the people like to see. All right. I'm just saying man. I'm just saying man Anyway, let's get on to the next story for the next story of the day Ladies and gentlemen cold demand is in some hot water. I wouldn't really call it hot water But he's been in some drama for the past few weeks to say the least cold man loves asian women That's no secret. We know that and he likes to post about how much he loves asian women on twitter all the time Until one day a few weeks ago.  She says stop fetishizing asian women Cold man said what are you talking about? What's your drama? What's your drama? Are you offended right now because I said asian women are beautiful like what do you want me to say in what situation Long story short situation escalated to the point where cold man brought her on a stream and decided to argue with her And there was some pretty funny clips. You can be racist white people Like i'm sorry Like if you think you are superior to a white human being that is racism and that's that's it We're gonna have that, but I can't agree with the fact that okay, maybe it didn't come from the play Wait, did you just say you disagree with that? Wait, hold on Mitch you're talking right? Hey, hey this man got caught listening to him man Anyway, it was a lot of youtubers a whole lot of people that ended up popping in that stream just to like it was very entertaining That's all i'm saying. Here's the thing in in her argument She was saying that because she's disadvantaged because she's asian And it makes her feel like she's being fetishized when people say they like asian women Then people shouldn't be allowed to say that because of how it makes her feel But then she turned around and said I could say whatever I want about white people because you guys are privileged And it's not racism because reverse racism doesn't exist.  Salomonati tweeted this Ronnie 2k is leaving the 2k community. That's tough. You might be wondering where the where does Salomonati get such a thing? Right? Well, if you look at the following tweet Constantine puts out a tweet saying okay I see what people are seeing Ronnie 2k doesn't have 2k or anything in this bio. Hmm thoughts question mark Ronnie 2k's bio used to be deezed and he used to have a whole lot of other stuff about how he was the partner manager or whatever with 2k But now he completely changed it to watch me stream and give stuff away Ronnie 2k himself responded to that tweet though saying lol besides my name my stream the content of 90% of my last 100 tweets Hashtag thank you next before that Ronnie response for a full day on twitter Everyone was kind of just speculating saying there was a real possibility Ronnie 2k might be leaving Which obviously wouldn't make sense for 2k because a lot of their relationships with content creators Or even just celebrities in the in the world are through Ronnie Ronnie has all those connections in his damn phone So why would you cut that guy? This doesn't make any sense They in fact they should be giving him raises when they want to do a face scan with the player Sure, they could reach out to teams and agents But it's easier if Ronnie just texts the guy and says yo When can you come through to do your face scan for a rookie that hasn't done it yet? Anyway, it's incredibly unlikely that Ronnie 2k is leaving anytime soon, but it stirred some drama. So I wanted to talk about it For our next story of the day is drama out of nothing man It's happening on twitter once again ladies and gentlemen some youtubers are back at it again swante put out a tweet Saying this why people acting like they watch golf weirdos And this was after tiger wood somehow on the masters and everybody was going crazy Cold man's took some shots back saying imagine talking about golf It's one of the highest paid and hardest sports Not the highest paid. I don't even know if it's that close to being the highest paid. There's a lot of sports Anyway, besides the point, you know, I tell you right now. It's also not even close to being the hardest sport But that's just my opinion. All right, that's just me. That's what Cole said though Swante responded saying this hardest sports lmf a yo shut the Garp cold a man responded saying go pick up some clubs Took years for me to be able to compete at a pretty high level swan responded saying boy There's a reason old-ass unathletic men play it It's nowhere near the same tier of difficulty as real physical contact sports And in this situation, I actually agree with swante Who said it has to be physical for it to be competitive It's definitely common sense physicality brings a whole different element to what sport is actually the hardest Golf is a sport compared to football mma boxing and basketball clearly and no genetic freaks play No weak-ass golf call a man tweeted saying swan shooting 200 at least and he responded with boy Nobody play no sweet ass soy boy filled golf lmao My point is these genetic freaks if they played it they whole life They could dominate compared to them not being able to do the same that proves which is harder Joe knows the one and only incredibly athletic Soccer basketball player said every time I see you tweet about real sports It's just confirms you got cut from your high school freshman basketball team You think about sports like a child who has no idea what high level athletics actually requires Swante took some shots back man. He wasn't feeling it.    What if you remember like eight nine months ago swante Davis had some serious beef where they made videos going back at one another. Do you remember that? So apparently davis is feeling some type of way to science with his opportunity to take some shots at swante He has me blocked so I don't want to hear him blaming me for reporting his tweets that I can't even see this time Davis suck a dick virgin the first person to text every day is a dude wash your face All right, so that's the end of that drama Swante came back from his 12 hour suspension He was feeling some type of way because he couldn't respond to all the comments that people were making about him He said this people trying to get me banned over a gulf a non contact sports opinion The streets is done.  That dude is a sensitive ass hater He could have just debated with us instead of showing us how triggered and offended he was about a damn gulf opinion And that ladies and gentlemen Is where the drama ended for our next story of the day Steezo has something to say about power out of nowhere and it goes as follows Why power talk like he got a dildo super glued to the back of his throat That's the end of that story. Yo, what up, davis? That agent beam start?  That's crazy for our next story in the day It seems like nadex has a secret admirer His name is mom mom put out this video It was titled nadex tmb gave me his cuban missile on mba 2k 19 jump shot Everybody saw that on twitter was like, bro. What are you talking about man?  Why can't we just be normal?  We're talking about other people's cuban missiles. It's like god damn, bro We can't be normal for our next story of the day man. Listen anytime ddg gets in some drama I'm always skeptical because listen, I know a lot of them are just fake But it's entertaining so I'll watch anyway besides the point since you got into some hot water with solo monadi Solo monadi said let's fight for our careers. So everybody was like wait, hold on Is this real? What's going on right now? It seemed like the two having some beef ddg quote tweeted at correcting him saying our But bet I'm looking for the date make sure you show up this time and that's taking shots I believe at the time where solo monadi had some beef with cash nasty And solo monadi failed to show up to the 1v1 against cash I could be wrong though. Maybe they were talking about a different situation But I think that's what he's talking about ddg dropped some dm's though He said law let's do this scared every time I dm him pure cat. I'm 5 9 you scared for give me a date I've been waiting so long to embarrass you your career is on the line Respond and he's showing dm's of him and so trying to set up that 1v1 underneath now I tell you right now I don't know how solo monadi is because I haven't talked to him But a lot of these youtubers are mad bougie, bro Let's say I have a video I want to make and I hit up some youtubers Sometimes especially if they're bigger youtubers, they'll say things like no, no, I'm busy. I have things to do It's like, how are you busy all the time? I don't believe you. You just don't want to do it. So just say that I don't know if that's what's happening in this situation But that's been my experience for the most part trying to connect and get things going with the community If you're trying to a community wide event half of the community is not interested ever Because they have things to do or because they can't do this date or that date or this date It's like make some time if it's that important to you. You tweeted about it this many times make some time for it Anyway, I can't speak on this situation. I'm just giving you some context. All right. So the dm's go as follow Let's do it. I got a gym in Same that I did at the shade video at Okay, I can't read these because some of these guys don't even try and use grammar So it is a mission for me to even try and understand what's going on Just know they try to set up a match, all right You know how to hide behind fans and spam videos so people can forget about You know, if I come to Cali with squad, you're not gonna 1v1 with these hands If I'm beating your ass, it's gonna be extra automatically a brawl. Tell me I'm lying. Would you come to me? I ain't gotta hide nothing.   We go box and make some money. I get back to LA on the 19 Yeah, that's a dumb that I ever heard. Why was somebody brawl? They're talking about a basketball game Why would you schedule a brawl? You're trying to get a 1v1 going now some boxing that might be interesting This guy said you want a brawl like what's especially when you have a lot of money.   Pontiac made ddg But we all know you're gonna hide behind these videos and they did drop videos on one another And I'm not even gonna bother watching them or reporting on them because they were ds. They were like 20 minutes long I'm not trolling. I never go public wanting to fight nobody. You deserve it for the culture I put this on my mama gray. Damn. I'm gonna gray Well, ladies and gentlemen the situation escalated with some more videos They made on one another because of course. Why not profit off the drama? Do I think it's fake? Most likely do I have any evidence is fake? Absolutely not. It just seems like it's not real, but That's just me speculating. We've definitely seen ddg and some beefs before where I just knew for a 100% fact It was not real and there's not really wrong with that at the end of the day It's entertainment and sometimes even the audience catches on to the fake that they're not real Uh, yeah, that was the end of that story. It wasn't as crazy as people made it seem to be It was just some guys trying to settle some with the basketball game with a brawl or with a boxing match for our Shakedowns a little pissed off about these park events and he got a response from mike wang Let's get into it. He tweeted instead of having fake games played in the background during 2k events and in the jrc Why not have a crowd like in the mba 2k 18 proving ground these fake games because and lag and slowdown Just makes more sense for street basketball to me at ld 2k at scato gallagher at beluba Beluba himself responded because he's been feeling kind of active recently He said those are actual games being played by real users in the 2k events And we we just got a zoom in for a second. Does that look like a real game going on in the background? I have never seen a real game like this Just just stay looking at the background No, it's possible that they're real He just doesn't look like it. Lol. No, they're not visually real users Shoot responded Basically, nobody believed mike wang now. This brings up a very good point I've been talking about this for years now 2k when i'm playing in a game at the park any park event Or just regular park ante up you name it I don't want to load all the extra Going on because I have Crowds every single time I play and there's other games going on in the next course It causes say with me extra latency extra lag and sometimes it results in you being disconnected I don't want to have to deal with that stuff. And so what we can do and I think this is a pretty easy fix Is everything that's not in your game Blur it out. This should be an option call it streamer mode call it uh low power mode Whatever you want to call it and just allow us to flick that switch and blur out everything else So the only thing that our ps4s and xboxes have to process is the current game we're in The only thing about that is 2k would never do that because 2k gets these brand deals from Jordan and from nike and they post stuff on the billboards in the neighborhood And so if they blurred all of that stuff out, then they're gonna start losing money when you can't see that stuff Unless you're actively walking around the neighborhood So it hurts 2k's bottom line to have a feature that would infinitely improve The gameplay it would reduce the latency It would it would make for a more enjoyable experience But we can't do that because on an off chance Jordan wants to pay 2k $10,000 to put a billboard up there where we have to see it I think that's my theory at least that's besides the point I don't want this to turn into a rent But I do agree with shakedown. It'd be nice to not have to see any of that or just give us the option to not have to see any of that I know that's not the devs making that call, right? That's the publisher with all those deals telling the devs No, you're not allowed to do that But anyway, either way it doesn't get us what we want as a community Stop capping 2k. Hey, um, if you guys enjoyed the drum alert drop a like subscribe to the channel Are you new then go ahead do that click on one of these four videos and I'll catch you in the next one