Three Levels of Acceptance Testing
At the Agile Open Europe conference I participated in a discussion on the subject of acceptance testing. One of the open ques...
Agile Process Improvement, the Hardest Part
In our company I am responsible for most of our process improvement activities. It's not that I can do everything myself. But I must ...
Top 100 Best Software Engineering Books, Ever (comments)
My previous post, the Top 100 Best Software Engineering Books Ever, cost me so much energy that I was too tired to give you my thoughts a...
Top 100 Best Software Engineering Books, Ever
In this post I proudly present the Top 100 of Best Software Engineering Books, Ever. I have created this list using four different criter...
Rubber Chicken Management
As a manager, I sometimes think it would be better if I didn't exist. Well, speaking only figuratively, of course. I believe that som...
Five Agile Competence Levels
I recently told you that I was trying to create "agile job descriptions". They are job desciptions that enable employees to und...
Copy-Paste Reasoning (or Adapt, Skip Adopt)
I have a bit of trouble with people adopting other people's opinions and arguments without adapting them where needed. Some people�...
Ask and Thou Shall Receive
A Google search on the text "Ask and Thou Shall Receive" got me a few different references to Bible chapters, including Matthew...
Agile Job Descriptions
I'm in the process of reorganizing and streamlining job descriptions in our company, and now the HR manager wants me to define the di...
Crawling to the Tipping Point
On ProBlogger.net Darren Rowse invited bloggers to answer the following question: What Was Your Blog's Tipping Point? This resulted i...
How to Select a Fine Technical Manager
Most software developers want to be a team manager someday. Most software developers are utterly unqualified for such a position. Non-tec...
The Single Best Source Control Model
Some best practices are so evident that nobody seems to be bothered to write about them. Just have a glance at the software d...
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