Epic Focus: Measure your way to a better time to market
There are several recurring wishes our clients bring to us, one of which is speed, to improve time to market. However, there is no dial that we can turn to deliver value faster. Software teams are not...
View ArticlePre-mortems, steering clear of the rocks.
Are you worried your new project won’t be successful? Or afraid getting stuck applying these new techniques you just learned in a training? Or are you perhaps part of a very pro-active organization,...
View ArticleWhat are we doing? And why?
What are we doing? Why are we implementing this sorry excuse of a user story? What will this user story achieve in the bigger picture? Is there even a bigger picture? I have attended several...
View ArticleMastery – being the best version of yourself
I was 21. I just graduated from MBO college, it was night and I was strolling around town with a couple of friends. We just celebrated our graduation and did not want to go home. After a few hours, we...
View ArticleQuality pattern 2: Automate your acceptance tests
In this blog, we will take a further look at these test cases and why it is important to automate these acceptance tests. Not just from a development team perspective, but also what this can bring to...
View ArticleSecurity by design? Don’t create a YAPWAV!
Security is about making risks visible and mitigating the impact of possible incidents to an acceptable level. The ‘security by design’ philosophy aims for every application or system to be at an...
View ArticleThreat Modeling – Start using evil personas
Agile teams often use the concept of personas to create more tailored user stories, so could you use evil personas to describe malicious behavior? Personas are “synthetic biographies of fictitious...
View ArticleHow to do Planning Poker online with video conferencing?
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View ArticleThe value of Agile Architecture in a modern organization
Talking about the added value of applying Agile Architecture in your organization, we see fewer and fewer “IT architects” in organizations. Is that because we do not need Architects anymore? Do we...
View ArticleThe shift left fallacy
I am done with the whole shift left storyline. When I started computer science in 1999 the professors stated that a lot of money and failure are spared with a good design. In 2000 the professors told...
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