Agile Book Writing
Let me tell you how writing a book (at least in my case) is simply another agile project: I have a high-level feature list that contains ...
Iterations and Increments Recycled
Finally… I have finished my article on the subject of iterations vs. increments. The damn thing took me almost four weeks to write....
Why I Would Never Hire Steve Yegge
Based on what I read in Steve Yegge’s latest article ("Get that job at Google") I came to the conclusion that I would nev...
Testing Software Engineers
After accidentally hiring a dyslectic kangaroo as a software tester, I have decided to improve my interview process for hiring new softwa...
Kanban Eating
The experts in our industry have an amazing ability of inventing sexy names for simple things that are as old as my cooking pots. An exam...
Finally, I’m one of the first!
It doesn't often happen that I'm feeling trendy. In Roger's Innovation Curve I am usually not in the group of Early Adopters,...
KISS Principle: Make It Simple vs. Do It Simple
Making things simple is not the same as doing things simple. Unfortunately, this is not a simple message to get across. Here's my per...
MoSCoW Priorities
We are giving up on MoSCoW. And by that I mean the prioritization approach promoted by DSDM, not the Russian city. — I had already ...
A New Project Life Cycle
I've introduced a new project life cycle model in our organization. It's an exotic cocktail, created from 1/3 DSDM, 1/3 Scrum and...
A Title for My Book
I need a title for my book. I still have more than a year to think about it, but I'm already anxious about it. I checked the titles o...
The Law of Originality
More than a month ago I had this amazing insight in my car. At least, that's what I thought. I have a very inspiring car, which might...
Complex versus Complicated
I just read the article The Other Side of Complexity, by Chuck Allison. In this article Allison claims that complexity in software can be...
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