The Agile coach as a counselor – what we can learn from Star Trek

In the third wave of Agile, the Agile coach will evolve into a delivery coach or a counselor. The delivery coach is best compared with a business consultant. To get a better understanding of the counselor role, let us warp into the future.

Hygiene is top priority

In some industries, visualization systems with special features are required that enable thorough cleaning and disinfection. In the food and pharmaceutical industries, visualization systems with completely closed and sealed housings and smooth surfaces with as few joints as possible are required. Download the whitepaper.

Headlines

Vodafone probes Effect Photonics’ optical transceivers

Think tank: rejuvenate European IC design before building a fab

New investment primes Delft Circuits for industrialization

Amolf creates perovskite paintings by having the ink react with the canvas

National Growth Fund funds quantum and AI research agendas

TUE develops even smarter smart windows for greenhouses

European Microwave Week 2020

European Microwave Week 2020 is Europe’s largest microwave, RF, wireless and radar event, bringing industry and academia together. Join us at EuMW 2020 on 10-15 January 2021 at Jaarbeurs, Utrecht, the Netherlands. Take advantage of reduced rates and register now at www.eumweek.com.

Built-in plumbing cools chips much more efficiently

Integrating a microfluidic cooling system in the heart of a power chip improves cooling performance by a factor of 50, Swiss researchers found.

In other news

Tracking respiratory droplets on the fly (IEEE Spectrum)

A closer look at Intel’s roadmap (EE Times)

Google and Samsonite launch a smart fabric-enabled backpack (Techcrunch)

You don’t control anything

Deep down, we want things to stay as they are. This is one of the reasons that driving improvements and change such as digitalization is so hard. However, unless we embrace change proactively, it will be forced upon us.

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