Feedback loops are a beautiful thing

Feedback loops are a beautiful thing

Tophat: I’m back 🙂 I love control systems. I really love ‘feedback loops,’ which are probably the most popular form of process control systems in our daily lives. The feedback loop is a very common tool for controlling and improving the operation of...
The Prime Directive of Retrospectives: Safety

The Prime Directive of Retrospectives: Safety

(Reading Time: 1min) Trust, Bernhard Hermant If you feel like you’re not getting good participation and feedback in your sprint or project retrospectives, you’ve got a problem. That problem might be that people don’t feel safe in sharing what they...
The Promise of Clouds and Optionality

The Promise of Clouds and Optionality

Today, I’d like to zoom out a bit and discuss the promises of Cloud and a bit about how you can use Cloud providers to grow your enterprise. Cloud providers promise managed services: for infrastructure, platform, and even fully-managed applications backed by...