Why you prefer to think you are always right, and why you shouldn’t.
“Tonight, I’d like to talk about our brains. The brain is a relatively small organ, sitting snugly in our skulls, that controls almost all aspects of our lives. It takes…
Protect your deployment pipeline with MFA
In this post, I’d like to share how you can secure your deployment pipeline using multiple accounts, profiles, and multi-factor authentication (or MFA). I’ll specifically be talking about Amazon Web…
Aw, Scrum! Where were you all these years?
The past four months, I really haven’t shared any updates on what I’ve been working on. Let’s change that, right now! Since early January, I’ve been contracting for Bitgenics, a…
Setting up (permissions for) Elasticsearch Service in AWS
Recently, I’ve moved one of my project from CloudSearch (CS) to Elasticsearch Service (ES), which roughly provides the same service. For me, the rationale to move from CS to ES…
Serverless: a concept and a poorly named framework
In the past 5 months, I’ve been contracting for Bitgenics, Erwin van der Koogh’s startup company based in Melbourne. We’ve built a Front-end Delivery Network called LINC, a hosting platform…
The art of asking. And of saying thank you.
Recently, I’ve noticed a change in how I ask questions. Especially personal ones, questions that someone might be reluctant to answer. As an example, today I asked someone about her…
The ‘Safe Space Manifesto’
Not long ago, I was asked to facilitate a project retrospective. The reason I was asked to do this was because the Product Owner wanted someone from outside the team…
The Happiness Door: another Management 3.0 #workout
Today I started using another of the Management 3.0 #workouts: the Happiness Door. At the beginning of a workshop I facilitated around the subject of Story Mapping, I showed all…
‘It takes all sorts to make a world’
Right. So, this quote is taken from the IT Crowd’s Douglas Reinholm in a scene completely unrelated to this post. The quote, however, is not. As a described in this…
My experience playing ‘Moving Motivators’
Quite recently, I have played Management 3.0’s Moving Motivators with my team. This game is centered around 10 intrinsic motivations: Curiosity, Honor, Acceptance, Mastery, Power, Freedom, Relatedness, Order, Goal, and…