Thoughts

We wish you a free 2021…

Welcome in 2021. What a year 2020 has been. In our previous new year video, we wished everyone a healthy life. It turned out even more important than we thought. We had our reasons to think about health. The father of one of my godchildren was fighting against cancer since August 2019. Although Simon survived 2020, in December he heard that he is terminal. And... Read more >

Books about technical excellence

I go to know agile as a developer, after I learned that "my smart/lazy" way of testing a screensaver was done before and was called unit testing. And I learned about extreme programming. At that moment both Scrum clearly said you needed technical excellence, and I remember talking about scrum in 2005/6 where they said, We don't want to define what is technical excellence as... Read more >

Books for CEO’s & senior management on agile

I have lot's of book on agile. Books that explain: the technical aspects of agile the different methodologies retrospectives on facilitation product owners ... Yet I felt it was time to create a book (and video) list that explain agile to CEO's. Book name Author Tip Turn the Ship around David Marquet Radical Management Steven Denning Fearless Agility Crossing the Chasm Geoffrey Moore Fearless Agility... Read more >

Books on Money

While I was studying, I was living of welfare. Meaning I had 375 euro's a month to pay rent, food, my studies (I the first year of IT, without a computer, I could only afford one my second year.) That ment I had to learn how to deal with money and age 19, while most of my friends where still living at home. When they... Read more >