How to Create a Pre-Project Document
How Do You Initiate a Project?Do you just organize a kick-off meeting? With a friendly pat on the back by the customer, wishing your developers all the best? I'm sure you don't. The agile principle of...
View ArticleThe Single Best Source Control Model
Some best practices are so evident that nobody seems to be bothered to write about them. Just have a glance at the software development books you have. Does any of them explain how to properly use...
View ArticleThree Levels of Acceptance Testing
At the Agile Open Europe conference I participated in a discussion on the subject of acceptance testing. One of the open questions was how to match "traditional" customers with the agile idea of...
View ArticleArchitects vs. Agilists (1 – 1)
Some software architects think that agile development is an irresponsible way of creating (badly structured) software, hyped by a bunch of undisciplined hackers. Some agilists think that software...
View ArticleCan Refactoring Grow Out of Control?
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View Article10 Principles of Agile Project Time Management
Project Time Management is one of the nine knowledge areas of the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) The post 10 Principles of Agile Project Time Management appeared first on NOOP.NL.
View ArticleIn Defense of Scrum (Please Stop Pissing on It)
Last week Uncle Bob Martin wrote about seven “serious flaws” in Scrum. I usually agree with Bob, but not this time. Actually, I might even feel a bit sad about all the <method>-bashing I see...
View ArticleNew Site for Agile Managers and Team Leaders
Together with several other people I have been busy preparing a re-launch of Management 3.0. It is a site for (and by) agile managers and agile team leaders. Like my own blog, this new site will have...
View ArticleArthur C. Clarke (or HAL vs. IBM)
Sorry, this is completely off-topic. But it’s important to me, so deal with it… It’s already been published everywhere else on the net. But there might be a few among my readers lacking the ability to...
View ArticleDon’t Believe Anyone
I'm a disbeliever. I tend not to believe people's claims about what they think is the truth. I am Skepticism Incarnated. After eating and sleeping, disagreeing comes third on the list of basic...
View ArticleEdward Lorenz (1917 – 2008)
Edward Lorenz has died on the 16th of April. Many of you probably don’t know whom I’m talking about, so I will explain. Lorenz is the man behind chaos theory (in the 80’s), which has later (in the...
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Lesson Learned: Automate Project Evaluations
Jurgen! We can never find the time to evaluate our projects. How do you manage your evaluations? Project evaluations (or retrospectives) are a nuisance. Everybody knows they are important, but nobody...
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