Problem statement If you have the following issues during a scrum estimation or planning session. I estimate a user storie because there seem to be…
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Most of us know the quote of Dwight D. Eisenhower about planning. You can find it in multiple other forms as well. In preparing for…
Trace the behavior The first thing I do when analyzing software is to trace a certain behavior, that I know the software supports, throughout the…
Something I have been telling to many of my younger colleagues and mentees: “become an expert”. If you don’t know exactly where your heart lies,…
I meet a lot of people who went to the IDesign course(s). A common theme I start to see is the struggle people have to…
In the book Righting Software, Juval Lowy describes Contract Design Metrics. Contract Design Metrics give software designers guidelines when designing contracts/interfaces. The book goes on…
After reading Atomic Habits I started trying out some stuff for myself. I didn’t go overboard but started very small. Carving out 15min in the…
Why I don’t like documents I’ve worked in several companies in the past where documents were the format of choice to document software projects: project…
Our software project documentation evolved over the last years towards a setup where you have a “Products” section and a “Projects ” section. Projects section…
No CEO care about “agile” No CTO care about “agile” No CFO care about “agile” No CMO care about “agile” …. What they care about…