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The end of an era

Today has been marked in my calendar for a long time. Today is the end of an era. Today is the last day of Bill Gates at Microsoft. We all have an opinion on Microsoft and their products and...

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Form and Function

“If you analyze the function of an object, its form often becomes obvious,” – Ferdinand Porsche. Mister Porsche was probably not thinking about software development or business processes as we know...

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The hotmail CV tax

Whenever I have a (technical) person applying and they have a hotmail address as their preferred means of contact I shiver ever so slightly. Even if the actual mailbox is very sensible like...

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On motivation of teams

One of the things I enjoy most in my professional life is the challenge that comes with building and guiding a team. In this post I’d like to offer an opinion on 3 factors that have a tremendous effect...

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The Prince-iples of Agile

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about traditional project management methods. In part to understand why/where they fell short for software and what their use might be. Some elements in the agile...

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A note on company culture

just read through the slidedeck netflix put up on slideshare…can I go apply now?

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Are you still having fun?

Ask any of the guys who report to me…it’s the question I probably ask most consistently in most 1on1. Here’s why I care so much about it: fun = happy. And to give you 3 more reasons Per week 40 hours...

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A quick response to Tim Cook and Steve Ballmer

I just read this article: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/23/why-tim-cook-is-like-steve-ballmer/ For those of you who can’t be bothered clicking the link and reading through it, here’s the gist:...

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I’m done with scrum

It took some time, but I’m done with scrum. In fact I’m done with pretending in general, but that’s a different matter. As Joost said: ”it takes a lot of time to see you need less to become more.” I’ve...

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Reading list

Because Stijn asked me a long time ago… A selection of books I’ve read and recommend to others. I have left out most of the Agile and software/technology related books on purpose. I think most of the...

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Why we build software

Most project management methods have some definition of “business value”, traditionally it’s documented in a business case, Kanban advocates cost of delay, Scrum defines a business value for stories…...

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The myth of the self organizing team

The software industry is rife with self organizing teams these days, or at least with teams that (cl)aim to be that. Yet, in management circles it also seems those teams are fairly often considered as...

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Understanding Product Tradeoffs through Modelling

In the next few weeks I’ll be working through a modelling exercise to illustrate how this technique can help make product decisions/tradeoffs. In the first installment the goal is taking it from square...

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Understanding Product Tradeoffs through Modelling – Step 2

In the previous post we built a static P/L for a product, modelled out to a five year period. The key to understanding that model is in moving away from what I would call “first level” numbers and move...

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The reading list – Next Gen Devops

In August last year I posted a list of books that I would consider essential reading material. I still stand behind that list, but there is one book that deserves to be added to it. The one book… It...

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Understanding Product Tradeoffs through Modelling – Step 3

This is the last post in this series on modelling product revenues. We started with building a static profit&loss statement in step 1. In step 2 we introduced variability and a way to summarise the...

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