Thoughts

Diversity in agile

I'm actively involved in a group called Diversity in Agile. When we announced our first release, focussing on women we got a lot of strong reactions, both negative and positive. Someone (Sorry I forgot where I read it, tell me who you are and I link back) said an interesting thing: He said when my daughter would get an award for doing a math exercise... Read more >

Agile estimations

A lot of books have been written about estimations. Before we focus on estimation on software or estimations in the agile world, let's look how good we human's are at predicting. NNT has written a wonderfull book called the black Swan. In this book he explains why humans are bad at doing predictions. To make things worse, he explains that experts have a blind spot... Read more >

The leadership game @ ESSAP 2008

  At XP2010 after I played the 4.01 version of the leadership game, I told someone (sorry I forgot your name, shame on me), I would put a link to the ESSAP video’s.   This one with a part of the explanaition looks like the most interesting (based on the number of hits.). Personally I’m not sure it's interesting without knowing what happened in this... Read more >

My burned shirt at XP2010 and my hair at Agile 2010

For the last 5 years, I was wearing my PairCoaching.net t-shirt at all the conferences I ‘m  going (as a speaker or participant). At every conference there are at least a few people asking me what PairCoaching means. Some think the logo is about me coaching pair’s (which is logic as I do a lot of things with my father, who does that kind of... Read more >