I just started as an Agile coach for a big player in the financial market in the Netherlands. This company chose 2 years ago for a transition to Agile for all of their ICT projects and employees (app. 800) within the ICT-department. So I stepped in...
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Evolving agile
Without any doubt agile is the biggest evolution in software development approaches since the introduction of waterfall back in the early seventies. And yes. Agile is an evolution rather than a revolution. The best practices and techniques in agile...
Read moreA short notice about object relational mapping framework generated queries…
I guess object relational mapping is an accepted paradigm for exchanging data between an object oriented domain layer and underlying databases. For most applications object relational mapping is more than sufficient. And if not, perhaps command query...
Read moreAPI, why, how and where is the money
API is short for Application Programming Interface, it is a way to communicate with something without having to use the website or tool of the specific service. Often is about the exchange and manipulation of data (such as most apps for twitter on...
Read moreDeath by Dogma versus Agile Assembly
On November 3, 2011 I presented the keynote of the Agile Open Holland Conference in Dieren. During this challenging talk I discussed the current state of affairs in agile organizations and projects and the effects of the recent strong rise in...
Read moreThe customer-oriented enterprise: (1) Scrum in the land of Extremistan
Thoughts on empirical management, Business Agility and Enterprise Scrum (part 1/3) The game of Scrum knows no more than 3 roles: Development Team, Product Owner and Scrum Master. These roles have proven to be sufficient for developing,...
Read moreInnovation and Enterprise Architecture?
You might be forgiven for thinking that these make rather strange bedfellows, especially considering as they don’t often appear together in the same sentence; at least not as frequently as Architecture and Governance, or perhaps Innovation and...
Read morePaving the path of Scrum Adoption: (2) Product People
8 years of playing the game of Scrum. Often injected with eXtreme Programming. A cobblestone path to reflect on. A previous reflection was on the absolute need for upstream adoption to drive and anchor Scrum and Agile in organizations. Next is about...
Read morePaving the path of Scrum Adoption: (1) going upstream
8 years of playing the game of Scrum. Often injected with eXtreme Programming. A cobblestone path to reflect on.In general, organizations have primarily used Scrum to add predictability via empirical control to the by nature uncertain IT and...
Read more5 reasons why Linux is still far behind Windows
Linux is well established in the server market, way ahead of its competitors in the supercomputers arena but when it comes to end user engagement, it is running way behind Windows or Apple OSX. Linux as an operating system is more secure, reliable...
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