Adding a section to do with delivery visibility.

Delivery visibility, using Jenkins pipelines. Perhaps VBA as the target language again?

Author: justinjtownsend

_pm-utilities/ics-event-stream.md

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+---
+layout: default
+title: Project Management
+topic: Project / Programme Mgt
+---
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+## Project Management
+Despite what software vendors would have you believe, there are short-comings in most tools. Persistent drags on productivity should be dealt with efficiently in case they affect deadlines:
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+- team members take time-off for various legitimate reasons and (global) projects are affected by varying public holiday schedules, so efficiently dealing with change in project capacity is important for sound tactical and strategic choices. Most calendars are published as event streams, so understanding how to aggregate these efficiently is a useful skill in capacity management.
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+   Here I use Visual Basic, why? Because Excel has a user community of ~750 million users and it's great for adding up those 'non-working' days [ics-event-stream.vb]({% link /assets/samples/ics-event-stream.vb %})
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+- pipelining (is that a word?) is undoubtedly a useful technique in CI / CD. 
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+   Here...
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+- JIRA, :-)