Why We Delegate: The Darkness Principle
From a complexity perspective, there is a good reason why teams in an organization must be able to make decisions together. This follows ...
Our Project Dashboard with Pivotal Tracker
In our team we use Pivotal Tracker to track the features of our amazing people search tool called Sociotoco Search. We're using Pivot...
Self-Organization vs. Emergence
This is the 3rd post in a trilogy about self-organization. The first one was Self-Organization vs. Anarchy, and the second was Self-Organ...
Self-Organization vs. Evolution
I sometimes notice a bit of confusion about evolution and self-organization, leading to such silly remarks as “Our team evolved to a te...
Best People Search in the World
Today our team delivered a new version of Sociotoco Search. We’ve worked for months on this little baby, and we firmly believe it is no...
Self-Organization vs. Anarchy
Jim Highsmith and David Snowden think that self-organization is different from anarchy. They say that self-organization (in a social cont...
How I Track Progress on My Book
I’ve been asked a few times how I track the progress on the book I’m writing. So I decided to share my system with you. I’m sure ev...
People Motivation: Target Intrinsic Desires
In some earlier blog posts I wrote that intrinsic motivation is preferred over extrinsic motivation. Nothing new there, I’m sure. But w...
The Open Space Policy for Managers
One of the management concepts I dislike the most, is the Open Door Policy. The idea of this policy is that every manager’s door is ope...
The Danger of Lean: Ignoring Social Complexity
After reading three books about Lean software development I feel slightly uncomfortable with the heavy emphasis the Lean community seems ...
The Do-It-Yourself Team Values Kit
Remember: they are greeted by clothes The first thing a girl sees is, of course, your listctrawler appearance. You don’t have to be Apo...
Top 200 Blogs for Developers (Q3 2009)
This is a great day! From today NOOP.NL can claim to be the #1 software development-related blog in Europe. Well, that’s nice. And some...
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