Your Software Project Has No Goal
Human beings, organizations and software projects share one important thing: they have no intrinsic goals. The goal of something that eme...
Top 100 Blogs for Developers (Q1 2009)
Note: The newest edition of this list is available here! Ladies and gentlemen, today I proudly present a brand new edition of the Top 100...
The NOOP.NL Road Show
One of my resolutions for 2009 is not just to write, but to talk as well. It's easy to disagree with experts from my lazy chair. But ...
Where There’s People, There’s Problems
This article was first published as a guest post on Chris Spagnuolo's EdgeHopper. I re-publish it here for your convenience, and to k...
Communication = Information * Relationships
Have you noticed that problems in software projects are (almost) always the result of lack of good communication? (Some would argue it is...
OK, Maybe Prince2 Sucks Less Than I Thought
Yesterday I did a Scrum presentation for a group of Minions of The Dark Side: people from the Dutch PRINCE2 User Group. I had expected th...
Top 50 New Software Development Books
It’s been nine months since I created the Top 100 Best Software Engineering Books, Ever, with the best books ever released. I still...
Video Killed the Agile Star…
Bas de Baar recently interviewed me for his Project Shrink blog. The message in this video is the same as in two of my latest blog posts....
The Complex Manifesto for Software Development
The world is more complex than people like it to be. I regularly see blog posts of software experts providing us with values, principles,...
5 Easy Questions for Paul Duvall
I thought I had finished publishing interviews with many software development celebrities. And then suddenly I received this new contribu...
Good Tools Are Not Agile, Not Customizable, but Adaptable
People are not the only resources in your project! There's a type of resource that is often neglected when we talk about agile, self-...
The Zen of Scrum (Free Presentation)
These days people keep telling me that I look tired. And I don't just look tired, I feel tired. The bags under my eyes have dropped l...
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