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I’m Ian — a Senior Agile Coach based in central Switzerland, with 25+ years as a Java backend developer, including over a decade at a major Swiss bank building FX and Equity Structured Products systems. In 2022 I moved from writing code to coaching the teams that write it. This site is where I think out loud about agile practice, engineering, and the occasional home-lab rabbit hole.

Projects
- Website
Agile
- Last responsible moment
- One way vs two way doors
Podcasts
- What the Return-to-Office Debate Gets Wrong

Blog

2026

Agile Leadership Book Club: The Peter Principle
The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI
Vibe Coding: A cure for my frontend allergy
Introduction to Flight Levels
Differing Definitions of Done
The Curiosity Shop - Return to Office
First IndieWeb homebrew meetup
And we're back...

2025

Agile Unconference Zurich 2025
Microsoft AI Tour and Warm Data with Nora Bateson

2024

Presenting in Teams
Coders Only with Alistair Cockburn

2023

Final Your Daily Scrum

2022

The LSP method
Team events overview
Illegitimus Non Interruptus

2021

Home internet backup connectivity?
The Timeless Way of Building
My first Liberators Network event
When do teams estimate work?
Fixing your Kanban

2020

2020 Reading List
Scrum Guide 2020
Scrum Patterns training with James Coplien

2018

How long does it take your team to push a new feature?
More HumbleBundle deals

2017

NPRs Planet Money talk money laundering
Thanks to @ollispieps and @jugch for organising a great hands-on #ContinuousDelivery workshop and @cssversicherung for sponsoring
Using Google Authenticator to protect sudo on Raspberry Pi

2016

Philips Hue motion sensor: I like it, but not for the living room (yet?) @tweethue
Chromecast get a wired connection, and I love it!
Why can't my @QNAP_nas play nicely with @CrashPlan?
Setting up a Raspberry Pi is surprisingly easy
WhatsApp
Christmas presents

2015

Guess who's back...
ALD2015 - Scaling Scrum
ALD2015 - The BLT

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