Opinion
Are We Returning To Scientific Management, But With AI As Its Stopwatch?
Why is higher management increasingly reaching to AI-supported tools that analyze individual productivity?
Opinion
Science
Why Science Is Essential To Professionalize Our Community
A while ago, I appealed to the Agile community to rely more on scientific research and less on personal opinions. I’m worried that the…
Opinion
Why I’m Sometimes A Grumpy Developer
A personal story about how coding seems to make me grumpy
Opinion
Is Blue-print Thinking Limiting The Potential Of The Agile Community?
An exploration of the color theory of change, and how it illustrates a bias in our community that may explain our failure to enact…
Agile
Agility And Business Agility Are The Same
How the distinction between Agility and Business Agility only distracts leaders from what they should actually be doing
Opinion
Why Doesn’t The Agile Community Practice Empiricism?
How we can improve our profession with more reliance on objective evidence, and less on personal opinions
Agile
Stop Measuring The Pizzas And The Cooks
Why output-oriented metrics are mostly a waste of time in software- and product development
Opinion
My 15% Solutions For Reducing My Impact On Our Climate (And Things You May Be Able To Do As Well)
In this post, I share four small steps I can make to reduce my impact on our climate. And perhaps you can as well.
Opinion
Here’s what's wrong with maturity models
We’ve got plenty of maturity models in our industry. In this post I argue why they are bad for you.
Opinion
The fight of a generation: our privacy
The doorbell rings. It is an early Thursday-morning. Outside, people are hurrying to their work. Still groggy from a particularly bad…
Opinion
Terugblik op Kerk2013
For my English readers: this post concerns a Dutch conference that I helped organize in 2013 and that had little to do with Scrum.
Opinion
Kerk2013: Het Nieuwe Kerken. Terug naar de wortels van de kerk
This post is not about software development or Scrum. It is an essay that I wrote in preparation of the Dutch conference Kerk2013 that took…