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b'Over the past few months, I have been in traffic jams on the highway several times when traveling to our weekly hike.\\xa0 In more than one instance someone has decided to pull over and drive on the berm.\\xa0 In more than a few cases the outcome of this technique for getting things done ends poorly. Despite the unpredictable outcome, jumping the queue is practiced by many in traffic and even more when funneling work to teams. The consequences when working on information technology products are far more predictable than driving, and they are ALWAYS bad. Let\\u2019s fix some of the problems leading to queue jumping. We also have a visit from Susan Parente, who brings her I Am Not A Scrumdamentalist column to the cast.\\xa0 We discuss risk management when using hybrid agile approaches.\\xa0 Contact Susan on LinkedIn or at Upcoming Events Using the TMMi accelerates the value of DevOps Fri, August 6, 2021 2:00 PM \\u2013 3:00 PM EDT \\xa0 This is a free TMMi America Webinar featuring Rex Black\\xa0 (SPaMCAST is a proud media sponsor of the TMMi America ) Register at About this event In this webinar, we will address how DevOps testing benefits through TMMi How TMMi\\u2019s higher Process Areas drive defect prevention, Shift Left, and CI/CD build and test pipelines Address the benefits of how DevOps Organization benefits from using the TMMi. Leveraging TMMi to focus DevOps test process improvements \\xa0 Re-Read Saturday News\\xa0 This week we focus on Chapter 4 of\\xa0 g.\\xa0 The chapter this week is titled, Never Procrastinate. If you have not read the entry, do it NOW :)\\xa0 An update on my continued experiment using Monotasking. My intent was to carve (not crave - I caught the spelling error a little late this week, it was not procrastination) out an hour in which I could turn off Teams, Slack, email, and text to allow for focus. Frankly, I failed. I was able to achieve a quiet zone only one day during business hours.\\xa0 I regularly turn off all notifications when writing before my day begins, but during the \\u201cwork\\u201d day being unreachable is more difficult.\\xa0 I am still looking for the right formula of schedule blocking and advanced notification to make this work.\\xa0 Previous Entries in\\xa0 Week 1 - - \\xa0 Week 2 - - \\xa0 Week 3 - - \\xa0 Week 4 - - \\xa0 Week 5 - - \\xa0 Next SPaMCAST\\xa0 Next, we feature our interview with Mike Potter, CEO of Rewind.\\xa0 We talked about the need to backup SaaS applications, remote and hybrid working, and entrepreneurship. This interview opened my eyes to the risks we all face by trusting SaaS application companies to back up our data.'