I’m a software product manager, designer, and sometimes front-end developer. I’m passionate about creating simple, humane, and inclusive experiences, and creating the teams and processes that make that possible.
I led the product function at Aclaimant, and previously had roles at IBM Watson Health, Trunk Club, and a variety of digital agencies. I’ve worked at nearly every level of the stack, from UI design to front-end development to product management and strategy.
Shape Up was my first thought too. I just left a team where I introduced cycles of six weeks of feature development and two weeks of bug fixing, tech debt, and anything else the developers decided to tackle.
It depends on the stage and size of your team and company of course, but for us the result was more predictable delivery and happier, more-engaged developers.
I have to wonder if this applies to private collectors. As drafted, it sounds like removing the coin mechanism[0] would be enough to dodge the ban if you just happened to have a pinball machine collection for private use.
Though the idea of police officers raiding someone's pinball machine collection sounds both hilarious and heinously overreaching at the same time.
[0] To be clear, this law probably would apply to freeplay arcades that charge for entry and electronic arcade money systems like Intercard's swipers or the ones that operate on save data cards in Japan.
I'd argue that you don't really need to remove the coin mechs if you set the machines to freeplay. And maybe that you could charge admission to get into an area with machines on freeplay.
I might not be willing to bet my machines on it, though. Although I would be highly amused to be legally declared a nuisance. :D
Did you put this together? It looks great. The site our village uses to host its village code is an atrocity so I’ve been considering rolling my own unofficial version.
Our official code is hosted by American Legal Publishing [1], but it's so bad that I decided to download a copy and try hosting my own.
After I was elected to our village council I started to notice the similarities between legal code and computer code – large amounts of plain text, formatting, and change management.
I ended up using Markdown with some special CSS styling, and the site is generated by Jekyll and hosted on GitHub Pages. BBEdit and regex was a huge help to whip it into shape.
You are welcome to use anything I've done [2]. I would love to see more people doing the same.
Thanks, some nice additional resources, the advanced shayhowe lessons look good for explaining the concepts around bootstrap which will be useful for a novice rather than just diving straight into it.
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Product management, product design, UX/UI design, HTML/CSS, JTBD, Shape Up
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/briandrum/
Email: brian@briandrum.net
I’m a software product manager, designer, and sometimes front-end developer. I’m passionate about creating simple, humane, and inclusive experiences, and creating the teams and processes that make that possible.
I led the product function at Aclaimant, and previously had roles at IBM Watson Health, Trunk Club, and a variety of digital agencies. I’ve worked at nearly every level of the stack, from UI design to front-end development to product management and strategy.