Agile Job Descriptions
I'm in the process of reorganizing and streamlining job descriptions in our company, and now the HR manager wants me to define the di...
Crawling to the Tipping Point
On ProBlogger.net Darren Rowse invited bloggers to answer the following question: What Was Your Blog's Tipping Point? This resulted i...
How to Select a Fine Technical Manager
Most software developers want to be a team manager someday. Most software developers are utterly unqualified for such a position. Non-tec...
The Single Best Source Control Model
Some best practices are so evident that nobody seems to be bothered to write about them. Just have a glance at the software d...
Blog Post #100: Your Feedback Please!
Yes! I've made it to my 100th blog post, in just over four months. Who would have thought that, after my very first entry into the re...
Book Review: Agile Project Management with Scrum
Jurgen! What's your opinion on Scrum books? For many agile practitioners, particularly the ScrumMasters among us, books by Ken Schwab...
How to Create a Pre-Project Document
How Do You Initiate a Project?Do you just organize a kick-off meeting? With a friendly pat on the back by the customer, wishing your deve...
A Tasty Team Building Exercise
Jurgen! How would you encourage team building? A good team building exercise which (at least to me) is preferable over helicopter droppin...
Follow Your Mind, Not Your Rules
This article was a guest post on Raven’s Brain. I am publishing a copy here for completeness. Last week I drove all the way from Th...
Tear Down Your Cubicle Walls
Jurgen! How do you feel about open office spaces? The thing I like most about an open office space is that it enables me to move people a...
Lesson Learned: Automate Project Evaluations
Jurgen! We can never find the time to evaluate our projects. How do you manage your evaluations? Project evaluations (or retrospectives) ...
Top Five Reasons Why Prince2 Sucks
Last week it happened again: one of our employees asked me to pay for Prince2 certification courses for our project managers. (I might ha...
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