Lucian Adrian @lucianadrian

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 — 👍 1 🔁 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

Rejoining the Meetup crowd with something interesting at BigDataWeek

09.10.2025 15:59 — 👍 0 🔁 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

Failure – if not avoided, at least prepare for it. It’s inevitable.. Failure in complex systems is, like other types of behavior in such systems, emergent Perrow's model is a good example. In a recent project I realized that testing can act as a canary, as early test results indicate things are going not in the right direction. The project manager, was asking why these defects were raised during a team meeting as being important, and one of the more experienced testers mentioned that this is a smell of something not being done properly, that will fail down the line.

Some personal rant about failure, failure modes, entropy and heuristics. #testing #software

21.08.2025 12:39 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Positivity – aiming and training for it Richard Bradshaw (@FriendlyTester) Tweeted: Testers are so quick to negatively critique without a providing a single hint of positivity. This felt so close to my heart and also knowing Richard personally I believe he also sees this as a sad part of the software tester role. I also believe positivity can be evolved, and my recent life events make me believe strongly in this.

Positivity – aiming and training for it

Richard Bradshaw (@FriendlyTester) Tweeted: Testers are so quick to negatively critique without a providing a single hint of positivity. This felt so close to my heart and also knowing Richard personally I believe he also sees this as a sad part of the…

20.08.2025 08:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A “complex adaptive system” is called back to the office Building on my previous post—“Return to office” or how one spring does not get in the box by itself…—I want to reflect on the current struggles organizations face as they attempt to bring employees back to the office in this latest phase of the post-pandemic era. I am not aiming to take sides. It’s clear that every approach—whether pushing for a rapid return, opting for flexibility, or supporting permanent remote work—has compelling arguments behind it.

A “complex adaptive system” is called back to the office

Building on my previous post—“Return to office” or how one spring does not get in the box by itself…—I want to reflect on the current struggles organizations face as they attempt to bring employees back to the office in this latest phase of…

19.08.2025 13:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Avoiding failure vs imitation of success "avoidance of failure is a better strategy than imitation of success" Dave Snowden Many times we try to reach success by imitation, and that goal is pursued vigorously. This looks a lot like trying to behave like something that we or our organisation is not alike, with our assumptions being that imitating all the visible moves will provide the same results.

Avoiding failure vs imitation of success

"avoidance of failure is a better strategy than imitation of success" Dave Snowden Many times we try to reach success by imitation, and that goal is pursued vigorously. This looks a lot like trying to behave like something that we or our organisation is not…

18.08.2025 14:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Playing the nature’s cards While watching one of the supporting videos for a course I'm attending (online) the below line (approximatively) came up "Nature makes and deals the cards, but nurture plays them" (approximate quote) Dave Snowden This made me think of how education and approach have a very important role on how things turn up on both individual level as well as aggregated, up to organisational level.

Playing the nature’s cards

While watching one of the supporting videos for a course I'm attending (online) the below line (approximatively) came up "Nature makes and deals the cards, but nurture plays them" (approximate quote) Dave Snowden This made me think of how education and approach have a…

17.08.2025 10:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Humans, limitations and… options This is an "impulse post", if there is such a thing. I call it like this because it's triggered by something I read at the playground, while watching my kids play (I know, some might say this is bad parenting, but reading a paper in the sun is quite soothing...). Now, to the point I am really happy reading a…

Humans, limitations and… options

This is an "impulse post", if there is such a thing. I call it like this because it's triggered by something I read at the playground, while watching my kids play (I know, some might say this is bad parenting, but reading a paper in the sun is quite soothing...).…

16.08.2025 07:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

One monthly free to attend video call with a demo session for deveoped software inside the 200+ peole perimeter we cover

24.07.2025 14:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Lucky audience!

23.07.2025 13:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I really liked the angle and some statements hit deep.
What I missed was a loop-closing part, around what can one do to heal this trauma aspect..
All in all ..nice read. Thank you!

21.07.2025 08:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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Today it seems that via aggregation of demand everything can be "..as a service", even operating satellites - Ground Software as a Service (GSaaS) #product atlasspace.com/freedom-gsaas/

20.07.2025 18:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"literally see which EU countries have been affected by heat waves by looking at the locales of Firefox crash reports coming from Raptor Lake systems"

20.07.2025 18:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Firefox engineer warns Intel Raptor Lake CPUs are 'crashing more often because of the summer heat,' and it's making me worry about the future of these chips 13th and 14th-gen processors back under the spotlight

Good telemetry can build a story, bridging correlation and causation - www.techradar.com/computing/cp...

20.07.2025 18:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

A language model built for the public good ETH Zurich and EPFL will release a large language model (LLM) developed on public infrastructure. Trained on the “Alps” supercomputer at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), the new LLM ma...

I guess I will use it ... ethz.ch/en/news-and-...

14.07.2025 19:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The forgotten 80-year-old machine that shaped the internet – and could help us survive AI Leading American engineer and scientist Vannevar Bush thought that the memex was the answer to information nightmare of the 1940s.

Where is my memex?
theconversation.com/the-forgotte...

12.07.2025 20:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"Grammarly has signed a deal to acquire email efficiency tool Superhuman as part of the company's push to build an artificial intelligence-powered productivity suite." I did not see this coming. www.reuters.com/business/gra...

01.07.2025 15:04 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1

Talent is already something plus, hence scarce.
Scarce talent is something like scarce squared.

01.07.2025 14:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Learning today the power of removing a slot from the schedule...
It feels opening to remove a slot and give time , the gift of time or the gift of choosing how to use time
#accde25

29.06.2025 07:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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