What Drives Quality available for pre-order
My 2nd book What Drives Quality is now available for pre-order on Amazon, Leanpub, and my webshop. The book will be released end of September.
Lean IT Summit 2017
Join the Lean IT Summit, March 14-15 in Paris, France, to discover how Lean can be an inspiring model for IT Leaders - I will cover the IT Summit for InfoQ.
Publications on the Business Benefits of Agile
I have collected research, studies and reports that provide insight into the business benefits of agile in a new agile and lean tool: Business Benefits of Agile.
Agile Value Creation
Organizations want to have insight in the values that Agile can bring to them. They want to know if and how Agile can help to satisfy customer needs more quickly, and what they can do to increase productivity and reduce development and operations costs. It is important to know the value that Agile can deliver and to be able to measure it. At the event Impact and Value of Agile, organized by the Agile Consortium, I presented the State of Affairs in Agile Value creation.
The Economics of Software Quality
The book Economics of Software Quality provides solutions to quantify Software Quality and manage software development and maintenance. It contains data usable to build a business case to improve quality, and decide upon improvements in your organization.
Agile Enterprise Software Development with InfoQ
I’m an Editor for Agile on InfoQ, covering news on topics like Agile Adoption, Culture, Lean, Agile in the Enterprise, Governance, Measurements, Coaching, Collaboration, Teamwork, Professionalism, Feedback, Continuous Improvement and Lean Startup. And I will also be doing interviews, book reviews, articles, and coverage of conferences.
Besturen van Agile projecten, hoe doe je dat?
Hoe doe je IT projecten binnen een vastgestelde tijd, budget en grootte, met een Agile aanpak, die wel gebruikersverhalen (user stories) en een planning (backlog) heeft, maar geen vaste scope en einddatum?
Agile Werkt, maar is daar bewijs van?
Is er bewijs waaruit blijkt dat Agile beter werkt? Een boekverslag van "Agile Werkt", over meten, analyseren en benchmarken van IT-projecten, en andere onderzoeken naar de resultaten van Agile werken.
Reduce software maintenance: Throw bad code away!
How can you reduce software maintenance, and lower technical debt? By throwing your bad software code away!
Not everything that can be counted, counts
Measurements can help you to manage and improve software development. An important issue when implementing measurements is to decide what should be measured?
100 Blogs: Did I reach my goals?
I started blogging in july 2010, and after less then 16 months I've written 100 blogs (the one you're reading right now is number 100). Did I reach the goals that I've defined when I started blogging? Have I delivered any value, and which benefits did I get from blogging? It's time for a retrospective!
Lean Software Ontwikkeling: Introductie, en Verminderen van Verspillingen
Wat is Lean, en hoe kun je daarmee sneller software ontwikkelen, met hogere kwaliteit tegen lagere kosten? Een overzicht van de principes van Lean, en de toepassing met een praktijkervaring: Minder verspilling door het gebruik van Agile.