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@lucianadrian

Father, software tester, agile coach

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Companies Are Laying Off Workers Because of AI’s Potential—Not Its Performance AI has been cited as a cause of layoffs, but is it actually displacing jobs? And if not, what’s going on? Based on a survey of 1,006 global executives in December 2025, AI is behind at least some layo...

Apparently managing to stay in long enough for the #ai to be proven ineffective on ones job seems like a plausible option to survive ai-jobpocalypse - hbr.org/2026/01/comp...

29.01.2026 16:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Fake news and trust Celebrity gossip, fortune-telling and superstitions are the original forms of fake news, but now it’s increasingly widespread. In every field from science to world affairs, it’s troubli…

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“consistent, simplified, coherent and predictable, all the things that humans look for when we’re seeking solace.” - main traits of fake news

18.01.2026 15:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

TDD is more Test Driven Design, more than Test Driven Development
Actually..TDSD -Test Driven Software Design

15.01.2026 08:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Will high RAM prices drive a memory optimised wave of new app versions?

14.01.2026 21:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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How come? 10-18 char long password ..hard limits :(

13.01.2026 20:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Is a vibe cutter in the same league as vibe coding? 😶‍🌫️

09.01.2026 22:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Happy new year!

03.01.2026 19:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Features, non features… all for some users I recently wrote about "digitally blind products", and this got me thinking about features. Apparently Google returns a pretty decent definition of a feature, " specific function or characteristic that enhances your product's value". I like this definition because it places some emphasis on product value, without mentioning what value is or for whom. Thus a feature is about adding value, yet it is unspecified for whom. Usually "feature factory" style development favors features stated to benefit the end user, the external client, the one user who pays for the product.

Features, non features… all for some users

I recently wrote about "digitally blind products", and this got me thinking about features. Apparently Google returns a pretty decent definition of a feature, " specific function or characteristic that enhances your product's value". I like this…

30.12.2025 08:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Delivery & impact over cargo cult Christmas & New Year break is a quiet time and unsurprisingly this causes some introspection. I have been involved in software delivery and subsequently all things agile for some time and I even organize events on this (see Agile Coach Camp Romania). First realization is that my professional path has started from delivery & quality, and has taken me to agile practices. I do now realize that focus is too much on rituals and following some rules. Rituals are good, but rituals that have effect are even better. So, I do now realize that first me, or we (team) need to delivery, achieve impact, and then create a ritual around that success.

Inspire routines and rituals from success, not the other way around. Too long have some communities aimed to obtain success from routines...

27.12.2025 10:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Mine is 25 :) as the kids take over the playlist during car trips :)

27.12.2025 09:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Palimpsest My kids at school have some sort of tradition, before the winter holidays visiting a bookstore and picking up two books. One book is for them, and the other one is intended as a gift for their parents. For me it's a nice habit, supporting the reading habit. This year, I received a book that surprised me. My younger son picked up "Bushido: The Soul of Japan", written by Inazo Nitobe and published in 1899. It was a pleasant reading, and there are two things I want to share about it.

Palimpsest

My kids at school have some sort of tradition, before the winter holidays visiting a bookstore and picking up two books. One book is for them, and the other one is intended as a gift for their parents. For me it's a nice habit, supporting the reading habit. This year, I received a book…

26.12.2025 23:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Merry Christmas! 🎅

25.12.2025 19:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Flying (digitally) blind Around autumn and early winter organizations experience some intense periods. It is a time of planning, forecasting, dreaming, imagining, estimating. It the time when next year aspirations take shape. To make this credible and easy, usually a baseline is established. And unsurprisingly this baseline is often the "current" level measurements. At the same time organizations point to some uncomfortable questions, like "Do we know about our digital flows, in terms of use behavior?".

Flying (digitally) blind

Around autumn and early winter organizations experience some intense periods. It is a time of planning, forecasting, dreaming, imagining, estimating. It the time when next year aspirations take shape. To make this credible and easy, usually a baseline is established. And…

13.12.2025 14:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"Guaranteed human".. just heard this on a content channel..
New threshold passed.

08.12.2025 06:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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What to be original? Just write it yourself

30.11.2025 20:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Doing the work when the lights go off A personal reflection on the evolution of Agile practices, noting the shift from innovation to widespread adoption, and emphasizes the need for grit and wisdom as the field matures and practices become mainstream.

Doing the work when the lights go off

A personal reflection on the evolution of Agile practices, noting the shift from innovation to widespread adoption, and emphasizes the need for grit and wisdom as the field matures and practices become mainstream.

13.11.2025 21:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#ai in production or perpetual analysis. Spot the difference exercise? This might or might not age well..#AI is entering organisations and people start using it. Everyone is excited and hoping all the analysis for IT solutions implementation will no longer be needed, and results will materialize sooner, with less testing and less work woth IT. Yet, soon we discover that predictable results need adequate prompting, and fast we learn about system prompts and RAG and others alike.

#ai in production or perpetual analysis. Spot the difference exercise?

This might or might not age well..#AI is entering organisations and people start using it. Everyone is excited and hoping all the analysis for IT solutions implementation will no longer be needed, and results will materialize…

09.11.2025 16:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Negative space & Testing We constantly seek to add more, but true improvement involves noticing what we leave out. Negative space highlights untouched areas, helping us consciously assess priorities and opportunities for growth.

Negative space & Testing

We constantly seek to add more, but true improvement involves noticing what we leave out. Negative space highlights untouched areas, helping us consciously assess priorities and opportunities for growth.

02.11.2025 12:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Divide, swarm and what else…? There are more than 15 years for me working with teams, helping them become better at reaching their goals, delivering more impact and being happier overall. Some call it agile, but I like to think of it just like "do work better".  I started myself to learn about this while working in software testing, attempting to test better, to understand how to build a set of heuristics for consistent problem exploration.

Divide, swarm and what else…?

There are more than 15 years for me working with teams, helping them become better at reaching their goals, delivering more impact and being happier overall. Some call it agile, but I like to think of it just like "do work better".  I started myself to learn about…

27.10.2025 17:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Bricked???

22.10.2025 14:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Language, limits, learning "Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man" - Martin Heidegger "The limits of my language means the limits of my world" - Ludwig Wittgenstein Some time ago I've become student for an online course I wish I've taken on earlier, the Cynefin Foundations one. Even from the first chapter, the course designer's (among them being one person I highly regard, Dave Snowden) places a big emphasis on language and its importance when learning.

Language, limits, learning

"Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man" - Martin Heidegger "The limits of my language means the limits of my world" - Ludwig Wittgenstein Some time ago I've become student for an online course I…

11.10.2025 10:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Attention, focus and AI AI might be the best companion for humans, helping us build a strong attention skill. So, in the end, the question relies around what AI will enhance in humans. Will AI make us more focused or it will take us further in the attention drift?

Attention, focus and AI

AI might be the best companion for humans, helping us build a strong attention skill. So, in the end, the question relies around what AI will enhance in humans. Will AI make us more focused or it will take us further in the attention drift?

10.10.2025 15:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Rejoining the Meetup crowd with something interesting at BigDataWeek

09.10.2025 15:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Procrastination & Delegation We often believe someone else—smarter or more capable—will fix problems, but it’s up to us. Delegation can be downward, upward, or, most sneakily, to our future selves, fueling procrastination. #selfleadership #procrastination

Procrastination & Delegation

We often believe someone else—smarter or more capable—will fix problems, but it’s up to us. Delegation can be downward, upward, or, most sneakily, to our future selves, fueling procrastination. #selfleadership #procrastination

05.10.2025 10:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Trust, Risk, and Scrum: Lessons from Agile Coach Camp Romania, first edition Some time ago I attended Romania's first Agile Coach Camp edition. It was refreshing and nice to meet people eager to come open with their daily problems, trusting the group, while seeking useful insights and advices that would otherwise be hard to get.  One of the open space sessions that grabbed my attention was about risk management while working with an Agile mindset in a highly regulated and restrictive environment (in this case investment banking). 

Attended Romania’s first Agile Coach Camp, exploring risk management in highly regulated banking. Learned how scrum’s iterative approach and trust-based risk models help teams navigate complexity and dependencies. Sharing insights from a decade-old experience!

05.10.2025 09:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Captain or Crew? Making the Product Owner’s contribution visible I have been an actor in and around teams working based on Agile principles for many years by now. There seems to be a recurring question that I have got many times from people new to this way of working. As one of the basic traits of a team working within Agile principles is TRANSPARENCY, every work item should be visible.

Agile teams value transparency, but the product owner’s unique role should focus on making impact visible, not just work. Balance visibility, leadership, and long-term vision for best results.

04.10.2025 09:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Ubiquitous difficulty I have kids and I love them! As they grow, I learn along the way various steps and stages of learning & development. It is no wonder that they say "you grow once more as your kids grow"... One of the recent realization has to do with something many of us take for granted and consider ubiquitous, that is reading and operating an analogue clock.

Something of things that prove difficult with any new system ..be it people, programming or AI..

15.09.2025 20:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Pretty powerful statement, and i feel behind it a call to reconsider some choices even on political side

29.08.2025 10:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Enthusiasm and sustainable pace Today on a Slack group I really enjoy I found someone doing some research on content reach and content mechanics. As usual, there was a form to be filled in. Most questions were good, some made me revisit habits and some triggered me to write this post. The person behind the effort was clearly enthusiastic and willing to make something happen.

What makes content more attractive? Hype or long term consistency?
What does it take to have a long content posting streak? How does one cultivate sustainable pace over short term acceleration?

25.08.2025 17:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Schedules & schedules The type of work should determine how one's day of work looks like. There are fields where focused work is productive work, and there are fields where relational and networking work is productive work. Managers fall mostly in the second category. By their position, as interface elements in the organization they are supposed communicate and work more with other people to produce decisions and steer the makers.

Schedules & schedules

The type of work should determine how one's day of work looks like. There are fields where focused work is productive work, and there are fields where relational and networking work is productive work. Managers fall mostly in the second category. By their position, as…

22.08.2025 13:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0