Embracing Innovation through Brown Bag Sessions: A Recap of Our Last Two Sessions 🚀
In applying modern and leading technology, Lunar is committed to fostering a culture of continuous learning and innovation. One of the ways we achieve this is through our bi-monthly brown bag sessions. These midday events are designed to bring together teams from tech, data, and product to engage in inspirational and educational discussions. The aim is to share insights, broaden our understanding, and ultimately drive forward-thinking practices across our work.
In this post, we’ll recap the highlights from our recent brown bag sessions, which explored the world of blockchain technology and agile methodologies.
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Blockchain Unveiled: Insights from Our CTO, Kåre Kjelstrøm 🔗
This brown bag session focused on blockchain, led by our CTO, Kåre Kjelstrøm, who enlightened us with a dive into the concepts of the blockchain and the potential of the technology.
Key Takeaways:
Banking Challenges: Blockchain offers solutions to high fees, privacy issues, and long processing times by providing a decentralised, low-fee, and secure alternative.
Public Blockchain: Explained the mechanics of blockchain using Bitcoin as an example, while emphasising immutability and decentralised consensus
Smart Contracts: Exemplified with Ethereum's innovation of smart contracts for automated transactions.
Identity and Privacy: Exemplified with Concordium’s approach to integrating identity verification with blockchain.
The session concluded with a discussion on potential applications within Lunar, such as secure transactions and identity verification.
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Comic Agile: Reflection and Improvement through Humor 😂
Another session, presented by Luxshan Ratnaravi, used humour and comics to discuss agile practices, encouraging reflection and improvement.
Key Takeaways:
Empowerment: Teams need autonomy to make decisions; and avoid overloading sprints.
Management in Agile: Agile principles apply to management too; clarify roles and responsibilities.
Support for Scrum Masters and Developers: Remove systemic impediments, minimise meetings, and encourage knowledge sharing.
Product Owners: Balance business and IT, manage stakeholders, and understand technical debt.
Luxshan emphasised the importance of psychological safety, evolutionary architecture, and articulating issues to motivate pragmatic agile practices.
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Closing remark
Our brown bag sessions are an inspirational platform that brings together the development teams from tech, data, and product, fostering a space to learn something new. By bringing together diverse teams to explore varying topics, we aim to inspire and equip our organisation with the tools and insights needed to stay ahead in a rapidly evolving tech landscape.
