Bertrand Russell has been an inspiring influence on me since my university years. This post is inspired by his thoughts on why Philosophy is useful.

Steps to use Azure Key Vault from an Azure DevOps Release pipeline.

Scrum demonstrates a scientific orientation towards project management. It’s foundations in empiricism make it a scientific enterprise.

During the life of a Scrum project, the scrum team develops a shared understanding of how much effort a story point actually represents. This shared sense of worth of a story point makes estimates more accurate over time.

Story points are a useful measure of effort required for a task, even though they are not accurate. During the life of a project, the overestimates will cancel out the underestimates over many sprints. The Bell Curve provides a mathematics-based intuition for that assertion.