http://www.jonezy.org/blog me and you and everyone we know Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:25:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en One of the common tasks when working in an agile environment is pointing stories, its essential that the team and the product owner get together and decide on how much effort something is going to take. We had a meeting scheduled today at work to do just this, 4 stories ... http://www.jonezy.org/blog/2008/08/11/weathering-the-storm/ Nothing good to report about week 3 : (  I seriously struggled getting through all the sets each day (I literally couldn't finish all the sets for any of the days this week.  So it is with great shame that I confess I will be repeating week 3 (in fact ... http://www.jonezy.org/blog/2008/08/11/hundred-pushups-week-3/ Things I learned on twitter is this silly idea I came up with while driving into work one day, the idea is that there is a wealth of maybe not so popular news, personal interactions and other insight into people's lives that you can only find on twitter.  I decided ... http://www.jonezy.org/blog/2008/08/03/things-i-learned-on-twitter/ Continuing the trend of keeping myself accountable to sticking with the hundred push up program, I've completed week 2!  Nothing terribly exciting to report back, I'm definitely feeling stronger and noticing that I'm not as sore after finishing the sets.  One thing I am looking for is a simple add-on ... http://www.jonezy.org/blog/2008/08/03/hundred-pushups-week-2/ All went well except for a short internet outage which left my blog in an error'd state for a few minutes.  Just upgrading plugins and testing out the google gears integration stuff.  Let me know if you see anything broken! http://www.jonezy.org/blog/2008/07/27/note-blog-upgraded-to-wordpress-26/ As promised, I’m posting about my first week of doing the hundred push up training program. As I noted I did score pretty high in the initial test, and I started in the bracket that aligned with my initial score but quickly realized I should drop down to the ... http://www.jonezy.org/blog/2008/07/27/hundred-pushups-the-real-week-1/ On July 4th of this year, my wife, 3 kids and I moved into a new house. It’s not the first house we owned but with a family the size of mine the smaller house we were living in was just not going to scale with us. My son already ... http://www.jonezy.org/blog/2008/07/23/a-retrospective-moving/ This week I’ll be starting the 100 Pushup Training program. The first step in the program is determining what rank I fall in for the program. I did the initial test this morning and was able to eek out 16 pushups, according to the guidelines found on the website, for ... http://www.jonezy.org/blog/2008/07/21/100-pushups-week-1/ I don’t remember exactly how I stumbled on the 100 Push ups Training Program, but it immediately caught my attention as something I could integrate into my existing exercise program (note: my current exercise program consists of nothing more then waking up every morning). The frequency and pace of the ... http://www.jonezy.org/blog/2008/07/16/100-pushups/ Thought I would repost something I wrote for my companies blog here, it's exciting news and I thought it would be appropriate to share! Rockefeller Habits meet SCRUM http://www.jonezy.org/blog/2008/07/16/cross-post-rockefeller-habits-meet-scrum/