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The expectation of developers at traditional companies is to complete assigned work.
I have observed many organizations introducing Scrum with the expectation that leadership teams would get more visibility into teams, and be able to pinpoint teams that need help.
I feel that expectation, and so I accommodate it, and I'm living my life according to what you expect me to do.
Sure enough, we all buy into that ... (Laughter) And with gated communities, we have a formalized expectation, with a homeowners' association.
And if you have the right expectations and expectation management, we feel like it's going to be a pretty gratifying experience.
Well, a reasonable expectation is that somebody's fame in a given period of time should be roughly the average of their fame before and their fame after.
It is in our nature to create anew, to be inventive and innovative, so why languish in idle expectation of a savior from above?
A nose? OK." No, you have an expectation of what you're going to see.
Well, most musicologists would argue that repetition is a key aspect of beauty, the idea that we take a melody, a motif, a musical idea, we repeat it, we set up the expectation for repetition, and then we either realize it or we break the repetition.
We're continuously trying to straddle different worlds, different cultures and trying to meet the challenges of a different expectation from ourselves and from others.
So this is the 50 percent line, that's the random expectation.
It was the expectation of the citizens that she would not be censored.
There was an expectation as a tradie.
No robot should have an expectation of privacy in a public place.
He's heavy infantry, and his expectation when he challenges the Israelites to a duel is that he's going to be fighting another heavy infantryman.
Saul has the same expectation.
But David has absolutely no expectation.
I kept thinking, can it really have taken us over 2,000 years to come to terms with that simple notion as being our minimum expectation of each other?
There was a recent legal article at Yale that established something called the Bankston-Soltani Principle, which is that our expectation of privacy is violated when the capabilities of government surveillance have become cheaper by an order of magnitude, and each time that occurs, we need to revisit and rebalance our privacy rights.
When she gives birth to the second daughter, she is shocked, and in the expectation of a son, when she gives birth to a third daughter, she feels guilty like a criminal.
I had succeeded beyond my wildest expectation.
And in doing so, the expectation would be that there would be a huge outpouring of international assistance to help these countries which were in so much trouble and concern at that time.
Then, maybe there would have been a reasonable expectation that he would have been more skilled when carrying a ridiculously large cake.
Then, when that reasonable expectation was not met by the tripping sidekick, irony would have been exemplified.
The common and reasonable expectation of more mature men and women is that they don't like or know technology, that they have a hard time turning on a computer, or that they have the old brick cell phones from the 1980s.
As I journeyed along my path, I encountered the best and worst of life at an intersection: the tremendous opportunity to self-define, the collision of expectation and experience, the exhilaration of victorious breakthroughs and, sometimes, the explosive pain of regeneration.
The real hum ignores the stare of history, and the balls in the air, and the expectation, and the pressure.
But that is not my expectation.
In most parts of the US, the baseline expectation in public is that we maintain a balance between civility and privacy.
We've exported this dream all over the world, so kids in Brazil and China and even Kenya inherit our insatiable expectation for more.
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