Only People Are Qualified for Control
In any software project only people are capable of accumulating knowledge and exhibiting creativity, and only people have the ability to ...
Innovation is the Key to Survival
In the western world, and in any other competitive environment, innovation is the key to survival. It is a matter of life and death for c...
Ignore “Values & Principles”, Focus on Virtues
Agile and Lean brought wonderful things to the world of software development. But I sometimes cringe when I see enumerations of “agile ...
The Three Phases of Creativity
A little background reading on creativity made me find the article Definitions of Creativity, by Arthur J. Cropley, which provides intere...
Managing Leaky Organizations
In a complex system each hierarchical level has novel and irreducible properties. This has far-reaching consequences for managers of comp...
On Paper I Was Once a Millionaire
On paper I was once a millionaire. Informal investors valued my Internet start-up at 10 million euros, and I owned 70 percent of the fina...
ScrumButs Are the Best Part of Scrum
Many organizations in the world are adopting Scrum, and many of those are adapting Scrum. But the adaptation of Scrum is frowned upon by ...
Please Help Me With My Book (10 Easy Questions)
The plan of turning my blog into a book has entered into its next stage. I think the time is right to find myself a publisher. The Agile ...
Agile 2009… Thank You All
The Agile 2009 conference last week in Chicago was a blast. I met so many interesting people, the attempt to keep track of names and face...
What’s in a Word? From Science to Software
In my previous post (Are We Abusing Science?) I wrote that we need to be careful when applying terminology from the sciences to software ...
Are We Abusing Science?
In agile software development we regularly hear references to scientific terms such as self-organization and emergence. Next week, when I...
What (Else) Can Agile Learn from Complexity? (Presentation)
Next week on Tuesday is going to be my Big Day. I will be doing my first talk ever in the United States, and on Agile 2009 nonetheless! O...
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