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Product Owner Scaling Problems
Scaling the productowner (PO) role is tricky business. When you scale up too much within the same context, things become cumbersome. We don’t want to bring back the same centralized fear ridden...
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Agile is niet te vermijden
Net als in 2010 heeft Xebia in 2011 het jaarlijks onderzoek naar de de status van Agile in Nederland uitgevoerd. Met ook dit jaar weer opvallende resultaten. Zo zegt bijna 90 procent van de bedrijven...
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You do not want agile
No really….. you don’t. Well, maybe you do, but the boardroom certainly doesn’t. They have never heard about agile, let alone what it is all about. Is this something that will help us solve our...
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How to improve your TDD skills
Do you think that you do TDD well because you have been doing it for years now? That is what I thought until I did an exercise called “TDD as if you mean it” and it put my feet back on the ground! At...
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From Idea to Live in 12 weeks
This is a true story of a company. At the first of January this year ago this company was a great idea and a few pictures. It had been like that for a while. At the first of April it was a company with...
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Bob the Builder is my name and agility is my game!
My brother is a projectmanger in construction. He builds complex stuff and I admire him for that. During the build, he transforms large sums of money and a set of mandates into a set of sellable...
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How to grow your own Silent Story Tree®
Lots of groups struggle with product features in the discovery phase of their products and services. Here is a relatively easy and quick exercise to make sense out of a mess of stories. Background: The...
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NEW scrum process overview
Some of you may know that I like to add drawings to support my posts. This time the drawing itself is the subject of the post and you can actually use it. So please take a look at it and put it to use...
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Learning new technology
A while ago my colleague Olav Maassen asked a question on our company mailing list about the best book to read to learn OSx development. His question made me think not about the best book but about how...
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Enterprise open source as a quality tool
There are not a lot of companies who publish any of the source code online. And why would they: documentation takes time, you need to package it some way and the only thing that can happen is that...
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