PO A day in the life of a PO - day three So far, I haven't seen any project in the wild ran by an exemplary scrum team configuration. What one does, is cross fingers and hope for a team representing all positions needed. Usually
PO A day in the life of a PO - day two If all the required talent is already in your team, what's your unique selling proposition as Product Owner, you ask? The Guardian of the Roadmap is the best answer I can come up
PO A day in the life of a PO - day one You are about to read a fictionalised story. The journey to be described is not based on a single job, rather a collection of past experiences, sugared with the odd hat tip to more experienced product owners.
culture A day in the life of a Scrum Team We're starting this new blog series to share our experience with agile sprints and product ownership. Open for collaboration*. Hi, my name is Koen. For years, I've enjoyed the pleasure of having impact
KMOP We just became "state approved" Advisors, what now? This morning, we found that e-mail in our mailbox that will make a bigger dent then anticipated when we requested it: "The organisation Lab Gent bvba is registered as service provider for
Hackathon The magic of a hackathon Have you ever looked for a tool that gives you the opportunity to maximize effectiveness in the shortest time possible? If you did, then I'm happy to say that your search is over. Let me introduce you to the magic of a hackathon.
education 5 amazing TedTalks to celebrate the International Day of Education Today, on the 24th of January, we are celebrating the International Day of Education. For most of us, receiving education is one of the most basic rights we have as humans.
hackfridays Friday office fun called HackFriday Fridays are always both the hardest and the easiest days of the week. The hardest because everyone is tired, bored and impatient after the whole week. The easiest because we all know that after we are done with work, it's finally THE WEEKEND and we can have our well deserved rest.
home office Surviving home office - confessions of a constant procrastinator From the very first day of my professional career, I have always loved the idea of working from home. At the beginning I thought it's all about freedom, flexibility, peace and quiet. Until I really started working from home...
bash Bash on Windows Are you a Windows power user, yet you've always missed bash like the one on Linux?
Getting Started 5 reasons you should consider working in IT industry The growth of IT industry has caused unlimited job opportunitues to resurface which made it one of the best markets for pursuing a career. If you have ever considered working in IT or simply changing your current work field, here are some reasons why you should consider the IT field.
Semaphore Need to deploy Semaphore but GitHub's web-hooks acting weird? You know these moments when things should go right, but they don't? We do. Couple of weeks ago we had a moment of terror waiting at our doorstep. Just the day when the deploy for one of our clients was supposed to happen it turned out that GitHub was having issues.
culture A winning culture Culture is paramount for companies because it is, in its essence, whatever that company is and how it's ultimately defined. That impacts the people that get drawn to it, what they produce, the clients that buy into it and all the jazz in between.
Getting Started Eager to start coding? Attend a community workshop in your city. Have you ever wanted to learn how to code but weren't sure where to start? Maybe you've always thought that it’s too hard or you don’t have the brains for it?
Dummy meets Chromebook, was it love at first sight? It has been an interesting journey for me so far, as I got in touch with a couple of different machines for the first time. Yes, I’m one in the classical herd
hackfridays How we phished a 20 billion Euro company out of 79% of their passwords This article originally appeared on, and was featured by Medium, and the Belgian technology publication Data News. Disclaimer: We were asked to do this, encrypted (and salted) the sensitive data, never saw, had
Innovation on a Friday Innovation is a great buzzword. It is everywhere, it kicks disruption it's buzzy ass. There are innovative advertising agencies, government stimulates 'innovation departments' and 'innovation managers'. There are 'innovation techniques', methods and a
hackfridays Arduino + NodeJS = Theremin w/ Visualizer Here at Cloudoki we came up with an idea for our #hackfridays: to make an theremin ♪♫ with an Arduino! So here's how we did it. Arduino Theremin We looked inside our Arduino kit
RethinkDB: first things first Recently in a new project, one of the project members encouraged me to use RethinkDB, saying that it could be the key solution, mainly because it has a feature called “change feeds”. However
npm Interesting npm features and quirks you may not know about npm is the node package manager. If you are using Node.js, you will have used it and you will be familiar with it, but since it works so well you don't take
hackfridays Internet of Things - make Raspberry PI interact with Slack About IoT One of the most exciting applications of technology is the possibility of connecting a vast array of devices, assign them unique alias ( like us humans having names ) and allow them to
Backbone Why move away from Backbone and into React and Angular2? Dear Backbone, it's not you...it's us. We still love you. by Cloudoki team The environment Here at Cloudoki we take pride in trying to work with as many technologies and frameworks possible.
AngularJS Angular 2 First Steps All the examples in this blog post are using TypeScript, since Angular 2 recommends to use it. We will try to keep this post as up to date as possible. In order to
JavaScript Webpack Module Bundler What is Webpack? Webpack is a module bundler. It takes Modules with dependencies and generates static assets representing those modules. The official webpack docs are somewhat difficult to process, so give it some
Laravel Sending Laravel Logs to Loggly Loggly is a cloud-based log management tool that allows real-time scanning of your logs, making it easier to search through data. This is very useful when it comes to get the best out
