On the morning of June 16th I met with Mr. D, to discuss getting ready for the Open Source Conference in Ottawa on June 23rd.  Mr D recommended that I have business cards and that they have something memorable on them.  So I flippant said Norbert Winklareth, wanna be renaissance guy.  Mr D smiled and said you know there is something to the use of renaissance and if it was me I might well use it because it is different.  Mr. D then went to check on how much lead time is required to have business cards printed.  I used that time to think about renaissance.

I like the word, renaissance, it is both familiar and somewhat uncommon.  It has a number of meanings however its associated notion of breath has always appealed to me.  The Renaissance age was very interesting as a pre-cursor for industrial age, it also brought forward mathematics and physics from the Greeks via the Arabs.  It also introduced experimentalism, was an artistic rebirth and it laid the foundations of humanism.  I am also a proponent of Agile/Lean software development and feel that it shares many traits with this age, especially the one of giving birth to a new and expanding age by using older but not well known techniques.  So for me Agile Renaissance speaks to my interests, has a historical connotation, but it also talks about nimble-breadth as a way of creating innovative solutions.

 

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