How to Paint the World
I’m painting our house and I’m doing it the agile way. I might call it Agile Painting, or Painting 3.0.
“Which tool is the best?” (Your brain!)
Last Wednesday, during my “Create Kanban Systems” webinar, one of the attendees asked me about the best tool for creating Kan...
Goodbye, Knowledge Workers. Welcome, Creative Workers!
Peter Drucker’s knowledge workers are on their way out. Investing in knowledge and then trying to charge a good price putting this ...
Celebrate Learning, Not Success or Failure
Some people say “You only learn from failure” or “Celebrate failure”. Other people say “Failure is overrated” or “Focus on ...
It’s About Being Competent, Not About Being ___
I am ___. It’s not by choice. That’s how I was born. I am perfectly happy being ___. It’s no big deal. It’s just the way it is. B...
Specialization in (Rugby) Scrums
Yesterday I did a presentation about Scrum for Level Up, a small IT organization in Delft. It was my standard talk, called the Zen of Scr...
Professionalism = Knowledge First, Experience Last
I am an entrepid troll. I am also an idiot, stupid and an *ss. At least, that's what I've been told this week. And I'm sure t...
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...
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...
The Perfect Job Interview Question
A Perfect Job Interview Question is one single question that leads to a perfect assessment of a candidate for a job. I think I have found...
People Don’t Read
Am I the only one keeping Amazon.com alive? Or do people buy books without actually reading them? These last few weeks I received some de...
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