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Was it sustainable?

Probably not. Or maybe. First, to be honest, I was unsure my tweet would even yield a single answer 😄. Second, while I did start reflecting on the various subjects submitted to me when they were, I definitely did not dedicate enough of a continuous focus to it. So while I think the goal was sustainable by itself, I didn’t manage myself well enough to make it. Hence, I do think I could have made it.

How to set sustainable goals?

Still, Romén has a point on this "sustainable" aspect. I assume he meant the size of the task itself, rather than the "shape" of the one actually doing the task (which I’ve focused on above).

So what’s next?

First, I am committing to finish the blog entries for each answer of my original tweet (for tweets posted in January 2021 😄). Second, I am adjusting this to be one article per fortnight. Given I received 5 proposals, this means I am left with 3 to be done.

So, counting points?

I think this is where the crux actually lies nowadays. We see various people complaining about Story Points being bad, but I have yet to find proposals from these same people what to do instead. I like the idea in this ThoughtWorks article to use story counts for planning, but keep having estimation sessions as a vehicle for team conversation: We still maintain our estimation sessions.

How to upgrade your instance to a more recent version?

Using Docker, upgrading should always just be a matter of using a more recent version of the image. Jenkins follows this pattern, so if I want to upgrade to latest Jenkins LTS to date, 2.121.3, all I have to do is the following.