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Cooks use knives. Carpenters use hammers. And experimenters use an experiment library. Since childhood I have enjoyed libraries. I never thought I would create my own library. Not with books, but with experiments. Experiment libraries are unusual outside science. During my academic tenure, I remember…

It is easy to get excited about one’s ideas. That excitement increases with comments like “I like it!” and “radical idea!” from friends, colleagues and potential customers. You get a buzz. But buzz is like sugar. Opinions drive short lived boosts of energy. It is…

Recently I had the opportunity to enjoy a 2 day Liberating Structures (LS) workshop event in London, UK, facilitated by Anna Jackson and Fisher Qua, who came over from Texas and Seattle, respectively. Also kudos to David Heath who organised the event with Happy, and…

If software product delivery is driven by teams, why are team-based conferences not the norm? Recently I attended the 2017 LeSS London conference. LeSS is an organizational design framework for scaling Scrum to more than one team. It is about applying the Scrum principles as…

DevOps is the special forces of software development. Its mission is to breakdown barriers between development and operations to unlock benefits in how we design, develop, deploy and support software. During my tenure at Hailo, DevOps started as a central team and later transitioned to central…