What If We Started Organizing *Real* Conferences?
Last year I attended 20 conferences. This year will not be much different. This means I get to think about conferences regularly, and som...
Courses, Conferences and Events
This week marks the end of my summer vacation. Now it’s back to business-as-usual. Which, for me, means a lot of traveling around Europ...
Time Out! (Wedding and Stuff)
This blog will experience a well deserved time-out. I’m getting married in Rotterdam and in Brussels, and afterwards we will enjoy a fo...
American Learning Experience
I write this on the plane back home. What should have been my longest business trip ever (3 weeks) turned out to be my shortest (3 hours)...
ALE Gathering at XP2011
Two weeks ago, in London, I discussed some ideas for Europe with four other people. We were five Agile/Lean guys from Ireland, UK, Latvia...
Agile Lean Europe: Energize the Network!
Last week Johanna Rothman and I were talking about Agile in Europe, while she made a brave attempt at out-eating me at my own favorite Mo...
Many Preconceptions about Scrum (Dutch article)
I helped write a Dutch article about the common misunderstandings of Scrum. It is published in Automatisering Gids, the leading Dutch new...
Not Left vs. Right, but Up vs. Down
Yesterday’s elections in The Netherlands were the most exciting in a long time. At one point the Dutch held all trending topics on Twit...
How to Grow: More or Bigger?
As an employee I have always had a preference for working in small organizations, because it is much easier to make a difference in small...
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