Lean

Cutting scope is the healthy option

4 October 2019

Scrum teams and their JIRA Backlog. Analysts and their Functional Requirements. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Yet we tackle software development by spelling out a list of...

Cheap – Fast – Good: pick 3

28 September 2019

Cheap - Fast - Good Conventional internet wisdom tells us we should pick two. It's often visualised in one of these Venn diagrams: The thing with conventional internet wisdom is...

Build software like an entrepreneur

8 September 2019

Some people start a company on a whim. Others think about it for years before deciding to jump. But all of them start the same way: by writing a business...

Help for non-technical founders

1 September 2019

We're living in an age of online entrepreneurs. The number of people going out on their own has grown even in the most risk-averse cultures. (hello, Belgium!) Nowadays, there is no...

Kanban is where software development starts getting interesting. It shows you a lot of flaws in the organisation. https://twitter.com/sftwrcraftman/status/1157972095596470273 What a great question! Most of what we call Agile is based around optimizing...

Greeks vs Geeks

13 July 2019

https://twitter.com/MathObsessed/status/1149003824197189632 None of us has ever been on a project where "they" stuck to the plan. It seems like stakeholders love to change their minds mid-project. These Clueless Customers derail our...

Cathedrals are easy. Space boats are hard.

4 July 2019

Radical concepts are not add-ons to our current view. They force us to look at the world with a different set of eyes. After this paradigm shift, it's easy to...