Having worked in Testing Professional Services for more than 15 years, co-authoring the World Quality Report 2013-14 with Makarand Teje, has been a rewarding experience for me. Looking through the research results and reading the notes from the...
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Don’t break up a winning team
I am not a big soccer fan, but I know a lot of people who are. Any soccer fan can tell you that if you add the best soccer players of the world in one team and just let them play against FC Barcelona, they would definitely loose. Not because they are...
Read moreAgile software development in practice – Product backlog items
Some time ago I was working in a team of business analysts that were helping the product owner of a large consumer website to define product backlog items and make them ready to be implemented by the development teams. The product backlog items we...
Read moreAgile business intelligence
Het besparen van kosten is een veelgenoemde aanleiding voor Business Intelligence (BI) projecten. Zo wilde een bekende overheidsinstantie weten hoe effectief de bestrijding van uitkeringsfraude was. Het onderzoeken van mogelijke fraude kost de...
Read moreManaging influences helps keeping project stability
A lesson learnt in the PMBOK perspective. When a project starts, there are usually a raw high level scope and an order of magnitude of cost. Generally, in the very first step, project managers focus in detailing these aspects and this rapidly...
Read moreTest Driven Development – The fun in unit testing
Most of us know we ought to have decent unit tests for our code. This holds true in just about any project, but possibly most so in agile ones. In agile, you want to deliver working software very frequently, want to practice emergent design, want to...
Read moreThe Opportunity of the Hybrid Window
The Hybrid WindowOver the last decade, advances in digital technology have made it an integral part of life and business over most of the globe. However the transformation from offline to online is still far from complete. Today we live in a hybrid...
Read moreWhat could the Dutch football learn from agile?
After a series of very disappointing games the Dutch national football team was eliminated during the preliminary rounds of the European Championships. Comments weren’t mild. The most heard comments largely focused on the lack of team spirit and...
Read moreTransition to Agile, How does it work (part 3)
Being an agile coach it is not always that easy. Sometimes you have to defend why you are needed. Agile is a lightweight framework with a small set of practices to teach, which makes it quick and easy to get teams up and running with it. So what is...
Read moreHow to kill your estimates
It must have been about twenty five years ago. I was working for a large international consultancy firm. One of the reliable ones. The ones that you would think that had everything worked out. But I guess this was merely the product of my...
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