Abolish All Rules! (Be Scared and Safe)
It struck me several times that the flow of traffic at the Hofplein in Rotterdam, one of the busiest roundabouts in my city, is better wh...
Discipline * Skill = Craftsmanship
I’m sure you recognize this problem. You are in a hurry, and you skip the routine of checking whether you have all your belongings with...
In Defense of Scrum (Please Stop Pissing on It)
Last week Uncle Bob Martin wrote about seven “serious flaws” in Scrum. I usually agree with Bob, but not this time. Actually, I might...
Scientific Case for Bottom-Up Rulemaking
In his book Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity computer scientist and psychologist John Holland describes a generic pattern f...
Make A “Social Contract” With Your Team
I have told you how to define goals, rules and boundaries for the people in your organization, and hopefully your team is on a great and ...
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...
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