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We’re all PE now

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By Rob Martin
| The Property Chronicle Verified
When private assets were a smaller part of institutional portfolios, CIOs could treat illiquidity as a manageable feature of a niche allocation. That is much harder to do when private assets make up a meaningfully bigger share of total plan assets. One benchmark covering 237 global pension funds with $17.7 trillion in assets under management shows private asset allocations rising from 18.3% to 24.9% in the five years to June 2025 (Source: CEM Benchmarking).
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Running Shape Up in Jira or Linear quietly turns it back into Scrum

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By Rob Martin
| DEV Community
Process mismatch In tools built for Scrum, a task is an input: something you file, size, and work on. In Shape Up, a task is an output — something discovered while building work that was already shaped and bet on. That's the core mismatch, and it plays out differently depending on the tool. Jira Jira does exactly what it was built to do. Its shape is Scrum's shape: a backlog, estimates, sprints. Teams bring Shape Up in anyway and try to make it fit the tool's shape. A scope becomes an epic.
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Comment: New medical clinics are welcome, but province has to step up

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By Rob Martin
| Times Colonist Verified
A commentary by a former mayor of Colwood. The announcement of a new medical clinic in downtown Langford is welcome and desperately needed. With an estimated 27,000 West Shore residents lacking access to a family doctor, bold, creative steps are appreciated by all. I applaud the efforts of Langford, the South Island Primary Care Society and the Freemasons for stepping up where the provincial and federal governments have not.
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