2025  1

January  1

2024: The Year of Change, and Plans for 2025

2 January, 2025 · 4 min · Oscar Li

2024  31

December  4

Mahjong Score Calculator #5 – Preview Out: What’s Next

26 December, 2024 · 3 min · Oscar Li

Mahjong Score Calculator #4 – Lessons from Solo Project Challenges and Growth

19 December, 2024 · 4 min · Oscar Li

Mahjong Score Calculator #3 – On Tackling Cognitive Complexity

12 December, 2024 · 4 min · Oscar Li

Mahjong Score Calculator #2 – Cracking Chows and Common Hand

5 December, 2024 · 4 min · Oscar Li

November  3

Mahjong Score Calculator #1 – My First App Project Journey

28 November, 2024 · 3 min · Oscar Li

No, You Probably Won’t Want to Buy an Espresso Machine

23 November, 2024 · 5 min · Oscar Li

How I Achieve More by Working Less

9 November, 2024 · 3 min · Oscar Li

October  1

The End of Nomadic Lifestyle – A Short Summary from Hong Kong, Japan to the UK

10 October, 2024 · 7 min · Oscar Li

August  2

How I Manage My Life with Scrum

19 August, 2024 · 3 min · Oscar Li

Finding My New Cheese After 13 Years of Work for the Same Company

5 August, 2024 · 3 min · Oscar Li

July  2

How I Run the Scrum Team without Stressing about the Scrum Terms

22 July, 2024 · 4 min · Oscar Li

How I Started the Scrum Team without Stressing about the Scrum Terms – From Doubt to Belief

8 July, 2024 · 4 min · Oscar Li

June  2

Scrum Guide is TL;DR? Here is the Scrum Concept Map

24 June, 2024 · 2 min · Oscar Li

Learning With LeetCode

10 June, 2024 · 3 min · Oscar Li

May  2

Is Carry-Over Acceptable? Why Not?

27 May, 2024 · 3 min · Oscar Li

The Power of Enabling Constraints: Boosting Creativity and Quality

13 May, 2024 · 2 min · Oscar Li

April  4

Perfecting Delivery: Striking the Balance Between Perfection and Timely Execution

29 April, 2024 · 3 min · Oscar Li

Beyond Coding: Developers Taking Ownership of Product Backlog Item Writing

22 April, 2024 · 4 min · Oscar Li

Boost Reading Experience Simplify Note Taking Corner Marking Method

8 April, 2024 · 3 min · Oscar Li

Welcome to My Blog 2.0: Unleashing the Power of Site Generators for an Enhanced User Experience

1 April, 2024 · 2 min · Oscar Li

March  3

How Making Fun Deviates the Essence of Sprint Retrospective

18 March, 2024 · 2 min · Oscar Li

Success Through Action: Emphasising Work Over Blind Promotion of Ideas

11 March, 2024 · 3 min · Oscar Li

Developing a Strong Reading Habit: Read Two Books Monthly

4 March, 2024 · 2 min · Oscar Li

February  3

Multiple Scrum Accountabilities: Good or Bad?

26 February, 2024 · 4 min · Oscar Li

Debunking the Myth of an Always-Available Product Owner

19 February, 2024 · 4 min · Oscar Li

How Mobbing Supports Scrum Values

5 February, 2024 · 3 min · Oscar Li

January  5

Rethinking Code Reviews: Exploring Mob Programming as an Alternative Approach

29 January, 2024 · 4 min · Oscar Li

Reviving My Ricoh GR: Disassembling and Cleaning the CMOS

22 January, 2024 · 3 min · Oscar Li

Debunking the Myth of Lengthy Scrum Meetings

15 January, 2024 · 3 min · Oscar Li

The Power of Deliberate Practice: Accelerate Your Learning Journey

8 January, 2024 · 3 min · Oscar Li

Metrics Misconceptions: Does Story Size Matter?

1 January, 2024 · 3 min · Oscar Li

2023  45

December  2

Embracing Uncertainty: The Art of Flexible Travel Planning

11 December, 2023 · 3 min · Oscar Li

No Unsolicited Advice

4 December, 2023 · 2 min · Oscar Li

November  3

Kanban #4 – Embracing the Non-Deterministic World with Flow Metrics

27 November, 2023 · 3 min · Oscar Li

Kanban #3 – Monte Carlo Simulation

13 November, 2023 · 3 min · Oscar Li

Kanban #2 – Applying Flow Metrics to Scrum Team

6 November, 2023 · 2 min · Oscar Li

October  1

On Agile Maturity

9 October, 2023 · 2 min · Oscar Li

September  4

Next Journey: Hokkaido

25 September, 2023 · 2 min · Oscar Li

Let’s Get Our Hands Dirty

18 September, 2023 · 2 min · Oscar Li

Applying WIP on Coaching the Team

11 September, 2023 · 3 min · Oscar Li

A Night with Typhoon

4 September, 2023 · 3 min · Oscar Li

August  2

The End of My Solo Living

28 August, 2023 · 2 min · Oscar Li

Kanban #1 – 4 Key Flow Metrics

7 August, 2023 · 3 min · Oscar Li

July  5

How Reading Changes My Life

31 July, 2023 · 2 min · Oscar Li

Embracing Change: Driving Growth and Success

24 July, 2023 · 3 min · Oscar Li

On Hosting Friends

17 July, 2023 · 2 min · Oscar Li

How Story Points can be Misused as a Weapon in Agile Teams

10 July, 2023 · 3 min · Oscar Li

Learning How to Swim After 20+ Years Away

3 July, 2023 · 2 min · Oscar Li

June  3

PSM II is done. What’s next?

26 June, 2023 · 4 min · Oscar Li

Does a 2-week Sprint Really Matter?

12 June, 2023 · 3 min · Oscar Li

Reclaiming Real Conversation – Moving Beyond Likes and Comments

5 June, 2023 · 3 min · Oscar Li

May  4

Regaining Control of Your Social Platform Usage

29 May, 2023 · 4 min · Oscar Li

On Bad Habits in Presentation #2 – How Overwhelming the Audience Can Be Counterproductive

22 May, 2023 · 3 min · Oscar Li

On Bad Habits in Presentation #1 – Filler Word Matters

8 May, 2023 · 2 min · Oscar Li

First Archery Competition as a Comeback Player

1 May, 2023 · 3 min · Oscar Li

April  3

Time for PSM II? From Yes-or-No to Good-or-Better

24 April, 2023 · 3 min · Oscar Li

How’s Your 2023 Resolution Going?

17 April, 2023 · 2 min · Oscar Li

Exploration of Alternatives to Whole Milk for Milk-based Drinks

3 April, 2023 · 3 min · Oscar Li

March  4

A Random Walk in the Hong Kong Flower Show

27 March, 2023 · 3 min · Oscar Li

ChatGPT – My First Impression

20 March, 2023 · 3 min · Oscar Li

Dive into the Complexity of the Japan Railways System

13 March, 2023 · 3 min · Oscar Li

En Route to Hida Takayama

6 March, 2023 · 2 min · Oscar Li

February  5

Kirby’s Return to Dreamland Deluxe – First Impression

27 February, 2023 · 3 min · Oscar Li

Searching for the Chinese New Year Flowers in 2023

20 February, 2023 · 3 min · Oscar Li

The Art of Subtraction for Travelling

9 February, 2023 · 3 min · Oscar Li

Revisit Hung Heung Lo Fung

6 February, 2023 · 3 min · Oscar Li

On Eating Out (in Hong Kong)

2 February, 2023 · 4 min · Oscar Li

January  9

Upcoming Concert on Feb 2

30 January, 2023 · 2 min · Oscar Li

Attempts to Make Rabbit Latte Art in the Year of the Rabbit

26 January, 2023 · 2 min · Oscar Li

1st Anniversary of Blogging

23 January, 2023 · 2 min · Oscar Li

A Review After 4 months of Having Myself Haircuts

19 January, 2023 · 3 min · Oscar Li

Entering the Cinema after 2.5 Years – The First Slam Dunk

16 January, 2023 · 3 min · Oscar Li

Time to Travel Outside the Town

12 January, 2023 · 2 min · Oscar Li

Think Twice Before You Buy an Espresso Machine

9 January, 2023 · 3 min · Oscar Li

Dedicated Time for Reading

5 January, 2023 · 3 min · Oscar Li

Rekindle the Photography Passion – A Year in Hong Kong

2 January, 2023 · 3 min · Oscar Li

2022  13

December  9

Back to the Gym

29 December, 2022 · 3 min · Oscar Li

Egg Benedict – First Attempt

26 December, 2022 · 3 min · Oscar Li

Treat Yourself Well with Homemade Meals

22 December, 2022 · 3 min · Oscar Li

PSM I and PSPO I are Done. What’s Next?

19 December, 2022 · 4 min · Oscar Li

My Coffee Journey #6 – Finally, the Espresso Machine

15 December, 2022 · 3 min · Oscar Li

My Coffee Journey #5 – Searching for an Office Solution

12 December, 2022 · 2 min · Oscar Li

My Coffee Journey #4 – Days of Making Caffè Lattes Without an Espresso Machine

8 December, 2022 · 3 min · Oscar Li

My Coffee Journey #3 – A Short-term Relationship with Kompresso

5 December, 2022 · 2 min · Oscar Li

My Coffee Journey #2 – Meeting the Barista

1 December, 2022 · 3 min · Oscar Li

November  4

Rethink Notion, the All-In-One Tool

28 November, 2022 · 3 min · Oscar Li

My Coffee Journey #1 – From Instant Coffee to Drip Coffee

24 November, 2022 · 3 min · Oscar Li

A Self-reflection on Taking Professional Examinations

21 November, 2022 · 3 min · Oscar Li

New Blog, New Challenge

17 November, 2022 · 2 min · Oscar Li