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The Queen's Hyperloop Design Team: a lesson in Systems Thinking
Last year I was invited to help the Queen’s Hyperloop Design Team improve their chances in the SpaceX competition. They had just been...

Gino Marckx
Mar 7, 20192 min read


Importance of Criticism
The past couple of weeks my children had to prepare and present short speeches at school. I encouraged them to practice and provided them...
Peter Maddison
Feb 14, 20193 min read


Understanding DevOps
When it comes down to defining DevOps, the industry itself is guilty of muddying the waters, grabbing every opportunity to turn the...

Gino Marckx
Jan 18, 20192 min read


Applied coaching
Beyond providing advice in order to help teams thrive, we need to help teams move along in their journey. The better we can do this the...
Peter Maddison
Jan 13, 20191 min read


Reflecting on the year
With the end of the year rapidly approaching, many reflect on what happened in 2018. Continuously reminded by the holiday wishes and the...

Gino Marckx
Dec 20, 20182 min read


Build powerful roadmaps
Many teams claim to follow agile and lean practices, yet are still challenged to deliver valuable software on a regular basis. Often,...

Gino Marckx
Dec 4, 20182 min read


Satisfying controls at speed
In a world of on-demand capacity and rapid delivery of small incremental pieces of value into production, heavily regulated organizations...
Peter Maddison
Nov 27, 20182 min read


Making every team thrive
As soon as the sun first rises above the horizon in Springtime and melts the accumulated snow and ice, high in the Canadian arctic on...

Gino Marckx
Oct 16, 20182 min read
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