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Top 200 Blogs for Developers (Q3 2009)

This is a great day! From today NOOP.NL can claim to be the #1 software development-related blog in Europe. Well, that’s nice. And some...

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Only People Are Qualified for Control

In any software project only people are capable of accumulating knowledge and exhibiting creativity, and only people have the ability to ...

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Innovation is the Key to Survival

In the western world, and in any other competitive environment, innovation is the key to survival. It is a matter of life and death for c...

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Ignore “Values & Principles”, Focus on Virtues

Agile and Lean brought wonderful things to the world of software development. But I sometimes cringe when I see enumerations of “agile ...

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The Three Phases of Creativity

A little background reading on creativity made me find the article Definitions of Creativity, by Arthur J. Cropley, which provides intere...

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Managing Leaky Organizations

In a complex system each hierarchical level has novel and irreducible properties. This has far-reaching consequences for managers of comp...

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On Paper I Was Once a Millionaire

On paper I was once a millionaire. Informal investors valued my Internet start-up at 10 million euros, and I owned 70 percent of the fina...

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ScrumButs Are the Best Part of Scrum

Many organizations in the world are adopting Scrum, and many of those are adapting Scrum. But the adaptation of Scrum is frowned upon by ...

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