State of Testing Survey 2017 now open
The 2017 State of Testing survey is investigating how the testing profession develops. It only takes 10 minutes to fill it in, so please join me for this worldwide survey on testing.
DZone Guide to Software Development Lifecycle published
My article Facilitating Effective Agile Retrospectives is featured in the 2016 DZone Guide to Software Development Lifecycle: QA and Testing.
Continue Verbetering met Agile
Silver bullets bestaan niet in softwareontwikkeling. Effectieve softwareteams bepalen zelf hoe ze hun werk doen, passen zich continu aan en verbeteren zichzelf. Continue verbetering is ingebed in de Agile-mindset en -principes en helpt zo om de flexibiliteit in bedrijven te verhogen en meer waarde te leveren.
My contibution to Distributed Agile Best Practices
I was contacted by Srijan to contribute my expertise to an round up post on distributed agile best practices. As I'm always looking for ways to share my experience I agreed. Little did I know at the time who else they asked to contribute. Here's how I ended up.
Why do you want to become agile in German
My successful blog post "Why do you want to become agile?" has been translated to German: Warum wollen Sie eigentlich agil werden?
Tools for Agile Self-assessments
The agile and lean tool Agile Self-assessments provides 55+ checklists, tools and articles that you can use to self-assess your agility.
Delivering quality software with Agile
To deliver high-quality products to customers, Agile teams and product owners have to jointly ensure the quality of the requirements and manage them effectively. Agile quality practices have to be ingrained in the team’s daily work.
Continue Verbetering met Agile in Bits&Chips
Mijn artikel Continue verbetering met Agile is gepubliceerd in Bits&Chips nr 4. In dit artikel laat ik zien dat continue verbetering een integraal onderdeel is van de Agile-mindset en van de Agile-principes en -practices, en geef ik tips en advies voor verbeteren met agile
Survey on Agile Manifesto 2.0
Is There a Need For Agile Manifesto 2.0? That's the question that Kamlesh Ravlani, Agile / Lean Coach and Scrum Trainer, is asking the Agile community. He is running a Survey on Agile Manifesto 2.0, which he announced on LinkedIn Pulse.
Books with Agile Practices and Tips
A new bundle of books with agile practices and tips has been released on Leanpub. Buy these books with a 40% discount! The bundle includes six great books from eleven authors, helping you to make your agile journey easier to travel, more successful, and fun!
Trello Board with Retrospective Techniques
The Trello board retrospective techniques for coaches, Scrum masters, and other facilitators provides exercises and ideas to design agile retrospectives. Philip Rogers created this board, he has added me so that I can contribute my experience with retrospectives. (more…)
Agile and Scrum beyond Software Development
In one of my workshops I explored how to use agile and Scrum beyond software development, for example in marketing, sales, support and in management. I gave this workshop in-house for a client to an audience which was not directly involved in software development. Many good ideas came up when preparing and giving this workshop, in this post I'm sharing them with the agile community.