SD Day 2024

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Ever asked a bunch of software engineers to build a Dolmen? On the 24th of October 3 teams from the Software Delivery group tried to do so during the annual group outing. Through a number of games, quizzes, and reenactments of paintings, the teams competed to create a Hunebed. TL;DR You won't find a Hunebed picture in this Daily Image!

As always, however, we started the day with some topics presented by group members. This year Hannes Feldt spoke about Nomad, which is a great help for managing your infrastructure and could be used by both LOFAR and the SDC, Rene Lourens spoke about giving feedback and the 360 degrees feedback experiment in team Rainbow, and Robbie Luijben engaged in a workshop/ game to write the worst code ever! These are all topics that could support our instrument and teams development, so do reach out to them if you'd like to know more!

So should you ask software engineers to build a Hunebed? In the end, the teams finished their Hunebedden for 90%. We believe these Hunebeds are usable, perfect MVPs!