I have recently decided to start building a smart home. A colleague of mine who has lots of experience and even writes a blog about smart home has recommended me to take a look at openHAB. openHAB is an open-source IoT platform that is capable of integrating various standards and devices and therefore seemed like a perfect fit. I first thought about installing openHAB on a Raspberry PI, but then decided to run it on my QNAP NAS, as the NAS is running anyways.

Retrospectives are great! It’s a simple and structured methodology to critically assess the most recent performance in a certain period of time. Developers know it, and good scrum teams keep on improving with retrospectives to become better and better. According to the Scrum guidelines, a retrospective typically answers the following questions: What went well? What could be improved? What will we commit to improve in the next sprint? When doing retrospectives on a regular basis (like any good scrum team will do) continuous improvement is part of the process!