New Site for Agile Managers and Team Leaders
Together with several other people I have been busy preparing a re-launch of Management 3.0. It is a site for (and by) agile managers and...
In Defense of Scrum (Please Stop Pissing on It)
Last week Uncle Bob Martin wrote about seven “serious flaws” in Scrum. I usually agree with Bob, but not this time. Actually, I might...
10 Principles of Agile Project Time Management
Project Time Management is one of the nine knowledge areas of the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK). It deals with the definit...
Can Refactoring Grow Out of Control?
In a recent talk on architecture and agile development, Philippe Kruchten told his listeners that refactoring can grow out of control whe...
Architects vs. Agilists (1 – 1)
Some software architects think that agile development is an irresponsible way of creating (badly structured) software, hyped by a bunch o...
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...
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...
How to Create a Pre-Project Document
How Do You Initiate a Project?Do you just organize a kick-off meeting? With a friendly pat on the back by the customer, wishing your deve...
Lesson Learned: Automate Project Evaluations
Jurgen! We can never find the time to evaluate our projects. How do you manage your evaluations? Project evaluations (or retrospectives) ...
Edward Lorenz (1917 – 2008)
Edward Lorenz has died on the 16th of April. Many of you probably don’t know whom I’m talking about, so I will explain. Loren...
Don’t Believe Anyone
I'm a disbeliever. I tend not to believe people's claims about what they think is the truth. I am Skepticism Incarnated. After ea...
Arthur C. Clarke (or HAL vs. IBM)
Sorry, this is completely off-topic. But it’s important to me, so deal with it… It’s already been published everywhere ...
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