Category: Technologies
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Halfstack Vienna 2023
I see some cornfields outside and hear the rattling of the beer bottles. I am on a train. The train goes “Hells Bells, Hells Bells“. I am going to Vienna for the HalfStack conference to give my heavy metal talk about IT fun. I arrived. Vienna was sunny. That surprised me. It could be global…
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Me, Myself, and DevOpsDays 2023 Prague
It’s early Tuesday morning, and I am again in the metro, going to a location in Prague I have never been to before. People are quiet on the train, thinking about their lives. I saw just a few people not looking at their phones. Have we become humanity addicted to some shiny devices and so-called…
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Why I donate and volunteer, and why you can do it yourself.
I am sharing a story about donating, volunteering, and supporting the things I believe in to show you that there is something you could do with your skills or financial assets to turn the world in a better direction. It’s not a secret that I donate more than $3000 a year for projects that align…
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Continuous feedback during the SAFe PI Planning
PI Planning is a high-priced event. You need to book a room, prepare the materials, order food, plan a social event, fly people over, pay for hotel, transportation, and some meals, + even more costs. The total price can go up to tens of thousands of euros and, in some cases, maybe more. If you…
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Storytelling in SAFe
Let me start with a bit of theory: There is an Agile framework called SAFe ® that allows enterprises to scale and deliver value faster by optimizing how it flows through different systems and sub-systems, using the principles of Lean-Agile. One of the primary artifacts of that framework is something called a Big Room planning…
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HacktoberFest – done; Why care?
I still remember the good ol’ times where I almost convince an entire company to allow their > 500 employees to contribute to an opensource or a free software project at least 1 hour a month. The journey was hard. I prepared a strategy and facilitated the discussion, and spend numerous hours taking to smart…