I'm currently working as a team lead / delivery manager, at Triodos Bank, supporting awesome dev-teams.
Jaarplannen In presentaties en spreadsheets worden de wensen, de verplichte verbeteringen en eventueel onderhoud en ondersteuning voor 2023 steeds duidelijker. De hoeveelheid werk wordt, met een natte vinger, enigszins ingeschat en BAM! opeens ligt er voor een aantal “Agile teams” een he-le-maal volgepland jaar. De moed zakt me in de schoenen, als “Delivery Manager”. Want […]
Cross post: ik schreef het volgende artikel op LinkedIn Paradoxen zijn mooi : ze geven je de kans om iets uit te vogelen, te onderzoeken, iets te leren en nog even niets te vinden terwijl je puzzelt. Paradoxen kunnen je vooruit helpen, zoals bijvoorbeeld deze: “Hoe komt het dat in onze complexe context, het uitbreiden […]
My findings from doing a Liberating Structure as a retrospective for one of my awesome teams @dePersgroep Amsterdam. It describes 1-2-4-all and my adaption for a retro.
Just 2 weeks ago, one team I work with, was finally ready to go out and have dinner and drinks. It was after a few weeks of struggles about processes, (a lack of )leadership and (unclear) demanding clients ánd a first successful release. During the night, their name changed from “team 1” into : MaxPinguins. […]
In this article Simon Powers asks : “What is Agile?” It’s a question that’s been asked (too) many times, but again, it’s in Agile’s nature to keep changing so the question will probably stay around for a while 🙂 The article is about this diagram: The bottom line is: Many organizations think that they’re agile […]
Agile or Agility? I saw a nice rant about why the word Agile is often used wrong and we should use agility instead. By Dave Thomas at a GoToConference in Amsterdam In his own words: It’s easy to tack the word “agile” onto just about anything. Agility is harder to misappropriate. And that’s important—you can buy and […]
I stumbled across this article on LinkedIn : “What is means to be an open leader”. It states : Being an open leader means creating the context others need to do their best work. It’s a definition that’s close to agile and it resonates with me. The initiator, the CEO of Red Hat, states that ‘context […]
I read this article: Where is the Agile I was promised ? It’s about the soul of agile and it expresses my feelings quite well. It’s message is: Agile is not a list of artifacts, but agile is a mindset. Or call it a Soul, which you, as a person working in a team should follow over it’s […]
If “Agile” means moving with quick, easy grace. “Being Agile” as an IT team might mean: Being able to easily and frequently release useful and quality software. If that definition is true, so is the following: Organizing yourselves in a team so you can easily handle changes Being ready for and responding to changes Maximizing […]
On February 11th I attended the Agile Market+ at the Prowareness NL office in Delft. It was a nice afternoon / evening because I met my former colleague Hanneke again, had interesting conversations about Agile and Scrum and attended several interesting talks. I learned most from Jurgen Appelo’s talk, because the context he gives in his […]
Is Scrum just a list with artefacts? A lot is written about Scrum. And Gunther also wrote a good story about signs you may have a wrong idea of it. Basically he states: Scrum is not a list of artefacts, but it’s a state of mind. I totally agree. As a ScrumMaster, I’m not interested […]
Attending a two day Scrum Master training by Jeff Sutherland & Serge Beaumont , I was drawn a very thorough picture of the success of the Scrum process . They proved from international & large longitudinal studies that teams doing Scrum were hyper-productive, swarming around topics and were feeling awesome. Who wouldn’t want that in their team? […]