Amanda Barber Community Champion

I liked it enough, but not enough to pick back up - haha! At some point, I'd love to find a choir to join. @Mia Paulin 

@Mia Paulin - no, I played clarinet for a few years, but didn't continue anything musical aside from shower and car karaoke... 🎤 My husband played piano for many years and our daughters have been playing for about a year now. 🎹

@Summer Hogan - hiring a cleaning person has been pretty life changing! I'm so glad we finally budgeted for one. It keeps clutter at bay since we try to declutter before she comes. With 2 kiddos (who each have lots of messy interests, ha!), I'm so glad to be able to focus on them and a bit of time organizing/tidying rather…

For many years, the movie Big with Tom Hanks was a favorite comfort re-watch. I haven't watched it in a few years, but now that my daughters are taking piano lessons I've been thinking it's time to show them just for the piano scene, haha! I'm not a big fan of re-reading adult books, but I'm grateful for both my time as a…

I'm at such a small company, this doesn't seem viable from within my organization. However, I'm grateful for the Atlassian Community Events which could potentially turn into a CoP! I'd love to hear if anyone knows of great Slack communities to join, too!

Love these ideas! It's been hard to get into spring mode with the extra snow we've been getting in Wisconsin. I'll agree with @Craig Nodwell , that we'll be doing some spring cleanup outside after a long, snowy winter. 🐕 Loving your idea, @Juanita Williams - I'll definitely give this one a go this year! My TBR pile has…

The confetti is always such a pleasant surprise! 🌳🎉

While I think we could benefit in some way from all of these, the team I spend most of my time with (engineering) could definitely benefit from Roles and Responsibilities. I think it would really help clarify responsibilities for the team members, and myself! With our company being rather small, many of us wear several…

I'm interested to see how the JPD team is doing this and can't wait to see Tanguy's video. Our JPD ideas are primarily new features or major improvements and driven by stakeholders. We then have a Kanban board that we use for our larger buckets of work (all epics) - typically, one idea = one or more epics depending on…

😅 So close, haha! Thanks for clarifying, Tanguy. I'll learn alllll the intricacies eventually. 

This is how I am perceiving the delivery progress field sort - this is when sorted descending: First, they are categorized by grouping the 100% done, ordered by the number of delivery tickets within the epic from greatest to least. Then, I see any delivery tickets that are not complete, but have been started, ordered by…

One more that I've been meaning to check out! https://www.northavemkt.com/

Got a few more suggestions from another group I'm in, too! Pardon the crude blurring of names...on my phone! 😂

As far as seating goes, these are at the top of my mind: Colectivo - Bay View Stone Creek Coffee - Harwood Ave Stone Creek Coffee - Factory Cafe

Fashion - low-rise, bootcut or flare jeans and layering with camisoles/tanks/shirts/etc. -- never going back to low-rise jeans! I'll stick with the mom jeans, thankyouverymuch. I've always listened to a huge variety of music but looking back at the top of the charts for early 2000s - Hey Ya! by OutKast, Daft Punk (One More…

I completed the cards on my Better Work Habits board and absolutely loved starting my week with a fresh task list. I was able to quickly add anything I know in advance that doesn't have a date to my backlog, went ahead and added specific day's tasks to their respective columns and even copied a few of my completed tasks to…

https://www.handsfreemama.com/soulshift/ :) Would love to hear what you think! 

Honestly, it feels like every day I'm learning something new (yay!) This year, I've been spending most of my learning time on PMI.org trainings. I'm almost done with the Disciplined Agile Scrum Master course and will be taking my exam in the coming month. I'm so grateful that my company opted to push everyone to select…

@Kristin Lyons - There's an amazing local PB&J restaurant here in the Milwaukee, WI, area called the PB&J Deli. They always have such amazing ideas for elevated PB&J. In case you need some ideas for your own - https://thepbjdeli.com/ :)

Definitely keeps me on my toes! I like the push to keep learning and growing that comes naturally from this type of role. 😊

Yum, reading this at lunch time has me drooling over here! 🤤 Lately, I've really been loving tuna melts on sourdough. Also a huge fan of all cheeses - I am from Wisconsin, after all! As a kid, I frequently had American cheese and Miracle Whip on white bread - can't imagine eating that now, but was just reminded of it as we…

Same thoughts here - I definitely have odd hours sometimes with kid schedules, etc. I really appreciate the option to schedule send my Slack or Gmail messages. My boss knows me well enough by now to send messages and start with "For tomorrow" or "NOT TONIGHT" if she's sending them after hours. I really appreciate that she…

Kudos, everyone!

My first job was at a restaurant...I was not very good at it, ha! Out of school, my first job was a substitute teacher before landing my own classroom job. It certainly shaped a lot of who I am today as a professional, as well as a parent. I'm so grateful for the time I spent teaching and shaping little minds - over the…

If I rewind all the way to High School....I loved programming and technology, but didn't think I had the math skills to pursue a degree in computer science. Sadly, I think the fact that I'm female had a part in that mindset. I went to college for Business (Accounting) for 2 years and took a semester off to earn a little…

Signed up for a 1:1 - loved making a new connection the last time this was offered!

I absolutely loved reading this article and getting to hear more about some of the community leaders I see posting daily! I had a major career pivot 3 years ago and am so glad I found this community. When I was a teacher, I was always the early adopter of educational tools and apps - and thus, part of lots of great online…

Loving this exercise! Here's my board currently. I am trying to figure out an automation to archive Done tasks weekly or something, but haven't found a good way. Any thoughts? I was also trying to think of a good way to have a record of the week's tasks to kind of feed into something like a Self-Advocacy Record (another…

Yum! There's a great BBQ place here that does a smoked pecan pie. SO good!

I've always loved the idea of failing forward. Failure is inevitable, but it's what you do after a failure that will either make an impact for the positive or negative. I think my most memorable failure was when I was a new teacher. I scheduled conferences as instructed (15 minutes per student), but didn't have the…