Happy to be here. Proud of what we do. The Irish advantage: bringing the smartest mind together in one unique ecosystem.
Stranger things can happen at the end of a sprint
As the end of the Sprint is approaching, usually in the last few hours before demo or even after, some team member decides to rush activities. What for the whole Sprint (1-4 weeks) and surely till “yesterday” wasn’t possible to complete in 1-2 days, suddenly can be finished in few hours, or it must absolutely […]
Update yourself
A manifesto for Scrum adoption in your life. Assuming you already heard about Agile, Scrum, Sprints and Retrospectives. As in any scrum team, the iterative and incremental process culminate in a retrospective, where members receive and elaborate feedback, taking actions to inspect and correct behaviours, remove obstacles, fix issues. If we are in an Agile […]
4 cultural strategies that can drive improvement as easy as pie
Support and encourage learning. Always. As a priority. Facilitate and support collaboration within the team and among teams. Provide tools and resources that make work meaningful. Use them wisely. Embody or support transformational leadership.
Night: not today
Today, as every year the northern hemisphere experience the longest day. In some places, already from few weeks there is no night at all while in others there is, but just enough to help you sleep for a couple of hours. In this diagram check what’s going on today June 21st in Ireland.
Spring in Toronto
A day at Wildlife Friends Foundation Thailand
July 21, 2018 The Wildlife Friends Foundation Thailand (WFFT) is a nationwide effort involved in rescuing domesticated/ captive wild animals. The WFFT is not a zoo. Here in Thayang, Petchaburi, we spent an amazing unforgettable day with Malai Ngun, with other rescued animals and with smiley volunteers. Malai Ngun was the third and final elephant […]
Baroque.me
For Lorenz Mitzler, students of Johann Sebastian Bach, “the music is the sound of math”. This is Baroque.me by Alexander Chen. Executing Prelude Cello Suite of Bach.
How data science can improve medicine
The TED Talk I’m going to suggest today is only an example -a very good one- of how machine learning and big data can bring improvements to health conditions of patients of today and tomorrow. Discovering interactions and effects between 2 medications, merely through data analysis (study was confirmed in lab only at the end) open a lot […]
As Canadian as possible under the circumstances
One of the late Peter Gzowski’s most amusing contributions to the never-ending search for Canadian identity was his contest to find this country’s equivalent of “as American as apple pie.” So they made a national contest to come up with a new Canadian slogan and fill in the blank, “As Canadian as …” You could […]