Quality: You Don’t Get What You Don’t Measure
I am not a saint. There have been some awful quality problems in the products that I was directly or indirectly responsible for. No, I wa...
Protecting Fish and System Administrators
I work for a company with a big open office space, in the Van Nelle Factory in Rotterdam. About 100 people work in an office that was the...
Good Managers Sometimes Have to Play Assholes
This is a guest post by Pawel Brodzinski. Pawel has his own blog called Software Project Management, where he writes about dealing with s...
Protect People
The first three years on high school were the worst of my life. Some guys in my class had chosen me as the center of attention in their n...
Win Free Books About Blogging
Happy birthday to me,Happy birthday to me,Happy birthday dear NOOP.NL,Happy birthday to me! Today this blog is exactly two years old! And...
Appearances
This is the calendar of events where I will be speaking: Agile Eastern EuropeOctober 8-9, 2010Kyiv, Ukraine LESS2010Oc...
6 Simple Questions for Neal Ford
This post is part of a series of interviews called "6 Simple Questions". Earlier answers to the same questions came from Bob Ma...
Communicate Your Goals!
Many years ago, during a board meeting, I once heard someone ask: “What was our corporate shared value of this year again?” And the C...
Free Hand-Drawn Social Media Icons
You may have noticed that I created a new layout for my blog. I think it turned out quite well, if I may say so myself. And, fortunately,...
Management 3.0: The Era of Complexity
I know. Management 3.0 is a silly name. We already have Web 2.0, Government 2.0, Project Management 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, and RSS 2.0. And...
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