Will Agile be trashed?
Agile is hot. Almost every Fortune 500 company is “Doing the Agile Thing”. But with the success also the critics are growing rapidly. The post “Agile is Dead” from Matthew Kern was extremely popular....
View ArticleThe Best New Years Resolution: Agile Product Management
Agile Product Management is grounded in the Jobs to be done theory and Lean startup principles. In my book “The Product Samurai” I described how you can effectively apply these techniques to be a...
View ArticleAnd now for something (not quite completely) different - Cognitive relativism...
Since joining the test automation unit of Xebia (June 2015), I have written some blog posts, all revolving around the topic of ..., well, ... test automation. However, there are a lot of other topics,...
View ArticleDe future fit organisatie - praktijkervaringen deel 1: De kracht en waarde...
Een succesvolle transformatie naar een wendbare, future fit organisatie begint bij het neerzetten van de basis voor de borging. Een organisatie die start met heldere en begrijpelijke cultuurwaarden die...
View Article3 key ingredients that make you a better developer
IT is a booming business, but that doesn’t mean everyone who’s drawn to it will become a great developer. Many students sign up for an IT education for the wrong reasons. I've had classmates who...
View ArticleEight Characteristics of Successful Software Projects
We do a lot of software projects at Xebia Software Development. We work most of the time at our client’s location, in their teams. Together we improve the quality of their software, their process, and...
View ArticleHow to organize the coolest software conference of the year
One of cool things I get to do besides being a consultant is (helping) organizing NG-NL. This is the annual conference in Amsterdam dedicated to the Angular framework. As you might expect, a lot of...
View ArticleMisvattingen rondom testautomatisering - Introductie
De geschiedenis van testautomatisering beslaat inmiddels een periode van enkele tientallen jaren. Deze discipline is echter pas de laatste jaren écht in een stroomversnelling geraakt en ze lijkt nu...
View ArticleMisvattingen rondom testautomatisering - Misvatting 1: The Silver Bullet
Deze blog post is de eerste in een reeks van posts ter wegneming van misvattingen rondom het thema testautomatisering. Zie hier voor het inleidende artikel. Misvatting “Testautomatisering is de...
View ArticleWhat are we doing? And why?
What are we doing? Why are we implementing this sorry excuse of a user story? What will this user story achieve in the bigger picture? Is there even a bigger picture? I have attended several...
View ArticleMastery - being the best version of yourself
I was 21. I just graduated from MBO college, it was night and I was strolling around town with a couple of friends. We just celebrated our graduation and did not want to go home. After a few hours, we...
View ArticleAutonomy – Taking the wheel
I remember when the Product Owner stepped into our room with a new user story. He asked if we could make a minor change to one of our web pages. What he did not know is that nobody understood the code,...
View ArticleSPACEMAP - organising a motivational environment
Introducing the SPACEMAP! A 'map' to gain insight into motivational problems within an organization/department, so that coaches and managers no longer have to talk about vague motivation problems, but...
View ArticleBehavioural science, a way to influence human behaviour
We as humans make numerous decisions every day without even realising it. Even when making decisions which have a relative big impact on our lives, we often do this rather irrationally. How else for...
View ArticleThermometer sessions - Gaining insight in your team
Looking for inspiration on how to gain a shared insight in the current state of your team? And curious how to find actions for your team to improve? Read below about the ‘thermometer session’, a...
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