I'm quite flattered to be labelled an "overly touchy senior academic"; good
going for a 40 year old a month away from filing his PhD thesis. :)
PGR
On 21 Aug 2017 11:55 p.m., "Stewart, Michael" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Dear all
I suspect that members of this list half the age of the two commentators so
far will consider the job offer and appreciate the opportunity.
Am I alone in finding this quite a melancholically comic late, (non-)summer
interlude - a kind of postponed midsummer’s night dream with old codgers
pretending they can’t understand the latest jargon when really the novelty
is just the same as when, once upon a time, they were young?
More seriously I find it embarrassing, as an academic, when non academics
post here and a pile of traditional codswollop is poured on them by overly
touchy senior academics, as if the outsiders are the enemy….. [visit
Germany if you want to see how a modern country manages this with ease…..]
(PS - Don’t worry Kristy it’s the usual thing here - 99% of the list don’t
put their head above the parapet but appreciate the broad range of offers
and information provided here…..)
Michael Stewart
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On 21 Aug 2017, at 21:46, Michael Kenward <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
One way to reduce the obfuscation and risk of downright bafflement is to
reply to Paul’s traditionally waspish comments, a response that arouses
great sympathy with me, by explaining, rather than piling on, the
terminology.
So what is a up “Product Manager”?
What is a “Product Owner”?
How do they differ?
Equally baffling, what is Agile software development? And how did it earn
that capital A?
Along those lines, what are “Agile ways-of-working”?
Perhaps more important, what are any of those terms doing in a discussion
of Public Engagement in Science and Technology?
Oh, and is there a difference between fuzz and fuss?
MK
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The debasement is even worse that one can think in this case, as they seem
to mix up “Product Manager and “Product Owner”. The latter is a very
well-established role within Agile software development. Agile
ways-of-working are spreading like wildfires right now from the software
departments. Some corporations are going all Agile as we speak.
http://www.agilenutshell.com/
Personally, I have started to get even science people to understand what’s
the fuzz is all about by starting an Agile Science Blog. Problem is, they
don’t even hear the fuzz. (I have been very lazy this summer – I’ll try to
write some more blog posts soon):
http://crastina.se/agile_science_blog/
Best,
O.
21 aug. 2017 kl. 15:53 skrev Paul G Raven <[log in to unmask]>:
"Product owner"? The debasement of language by commerce continues apace, I
see...
PGR
On 21 August 2017 at 14:49, Kristy Collingbourne <K.Collingbourne@
inspiredselection.com> wrote:
Dear List Members,
I am currently recruiting for an exciting opportunity for a health
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are interested please get in touch with Abigail Barclay at a.barclay@
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*Online Product Owner, Health. *
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The responsibilities will include:
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You will need to be able to demonstrate the ability to work with sensitive,
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