How to Do Things Your Customer Didn’t Ask For
Some time ago I got a question from Sebastiaan, one of my colleagues. He told me he was struggling with an important issue: Should we spe...
So, Now You’re an Agilist… What’s Next?
This week I did a presentation at SPA 2009 and Skills Matter in London. (And I did the same one last week for Agile Holland.) Just like m...
The Optimal Team Size is Five
What is the optimal size of a team? People have been trying to answer this question for ages, and there seems to be little consensus. At ...
The Big List of Agile Practices
This post is probably going to be hated and loved at the same time. Because, when people talk about agile practices, they can sometimes b...
Islands in the Stream
I recently endorsed the use of Twitter in our organization. I must have been mad. There's already so much information going around, w...
First Preview of My Book
Many of you already know I'm trying to write a book. It's going to be a book about managing teams, and managing organizations tha...
First Book Preview
The Republic is not what it once was. The Senate is full of greedy, squabbling delegates. There is no interest in the common good. The Da...
Optimize Communication, Throw the Boss Out
It is well-known that difficult goals are best achieved when people work in small teams of under ten people. Various agile methods were c...
Don’t Waste Your Time with Twitter
I'm a Twitter fan, like many others. But besides tweeting, I also like reading, writing, eating, coding, socializing, and ehm… ...
The Second 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...
Great Managers Have No Secrets
In an earlier post I wrote that most problems in software projects are the result of bad communication, and that good communication is th...
What Is the Mission of Your Project?
In my previous blog post I claimed that software projects have no intrinsic goals. They simply exist. The stakeholders in a project can h...
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