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...
Top 200 Development and Social Media Blogs (OPML)
In response to my previous articles about the Top 200 Blogs for Developers and the Top 200 Social Media Blogs, I received a number of req...
Join the CLUB (Coding Like Uncle Bob)
Today I thought of a solution to the wide-spread problem of programmers writing crappy code and causing problems with the delivery of low...
Reading Books in a Parallel and Non-Sequential Way
Agile Is NOT a Risk Management Strategy
Last week I told you that agile is a risk management strategy. But it's not. I lied. (Sort of) It is true that agile covers all the p...
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