Scaling and dependencies are inevitable and pose an interesting challenge for a Release Train Engineer on a train with 15 teams. During multiple PI’s teams learned to improve in this area but I still felt… Read More »Scaling teams and managing dependencies
The term ‘Collaborative Cyber Security’ has been borrowed from Richard Hackman’s book Collaborative intelligence. In this book he describes the lessons learned from researching the CIA in the aftermath of 9/11. The CIA wanted to… Read More »Collaborative Cyber Security
On October 31th 2014 I attended the Agile Tour Brussel 2014 (#ATBRU) conference for the first time. One of the sessions was on Scrum in Industry (Scrum beyond Software series). Xavier Quesada Allue and his… Read More »Scrum for non IT teams
This weekend the Volvo Ocean Race 2014-2015 started in Alicante Spain. Seven teams will compete for a year in the Mount Everest of sailing competitions. This year the setup has significantly changed. All teams use… Read More »TeamUp during the 2014-2015 Volvo Ocean Race
In this post I will discuss the does size really matter game to find out your project is in trouble. This game can be done from the moment the project initiative document (PID) is discussed… Read More »Troubled Projects (part 2): Does size really matter?
After my first post on Troubled Project I got some nice reactions: Damien Braeckman ‚I like the “”complexity game”” (good name by the way) and often add an additional dimension to it. After having the… Read More »Troubled Projects: reactions on part 1
In my experience I have came across projects that were in trouble. I tried to find parallels in those projects to find the early warning signs. In this post I will share 2 of the… Read More »Troubled Projects: early warnings signs
On March 26 I give a presentation on Agile Architecting at Agile Overheid. I made uploaded the presentation to Vimeo. The presentation is in Dutch.
Preparing a Scrum training for Managers in the Public Sector can be an inspiration for a post. Digging through research I found an article with the nice title:””Double Whammy: How ICT Projects are Fooled by… Read More »Scrum for Managers in the Public Sector
The use of metaphors has long been a best practice in eXtreme Programming. Since a few years I am using the metaphor of the Volvo Ocean Race. First of all I was born near the… Read More »The Volvo Ocean Race metaphor
In ALE 2011 there were some interesting discussions on how to convince senior management on the the benefits of Agile Development.In an interesting keynote, David Snowden made good point on this. He stated agile methods… Read More »ALE Research Project
