Less Is More: Swimming in Sweden (guest post)
This is a guest post by Edwin van Dijk. Edwin is a master of science in Building technology, studied business administration and has soft...
Traits That Make A Good Development Manager (guest post)
This guest post is by Alan Skorkin, a software developer from Melbourne, Australia. He shares his ideas about software development, softw...
Blog Post #300 (Almost)
I’m taking a two-week break. When I’m camping in Sweden and Lapland, after fighting with an elk over the possession of my trunks, I w...
Agile Groups
Recently I noticed that I had missed an important announcement that had been posted to one or two groups on various social networks. Not ...
Commit to Sprint Planning or Definition of Done, Not Both
I'm having trouble with people's use of the term commitment. In Scrum and other agile processes, the term commitment-based sprint...
Planning for Feature-Complete Deadlines
Next week I will be on vacation in Sweden. I am really looking forward to that. If the northern part of Sweden allows it, you can expect ...
Finally, 40
The world celebrates that, on this day exactly 40 years ago, man made first contact with the moon. I am celebrating that, on this day exa...
The Fourth NOOP.NL Rerun…
So, what do you do when you're a prolific blogger, and you're faced with no backlog of articles, too little time to write a new p...
About Project Success and Failure
Last week I got a number of interesting questions from Vassili Kurman, who is researching project success and failure. Vassili agreed tha...
The Three Types of Change
Last week I moaned about power laws, and how they make our lives miserable. The realization that power laws are disturbing our work gave ...
Bootstrapping Our Social Media Business
Some people have been wondering why I have been tweeting about coding practices these last few weeks, while my blog is about managing sof...
Your Project Will Suffer From Power Laws
You have this great new project. With groovy new technologies, a fine bunch of developers, and a preliminary set of requirements that loo...
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