A collection of blog posts written over the years representing my thinking at the time.
2025
2024
2015
2014
- - LKCE14: The Law of Learning Entropy
- - Trust. Respect. Relationships.
- - Spark The Change - day one
- - Stop writing acceptance criteria
- - Keep going
2013
- - Agile on the Beach 2013: The Art of Feedback
- - Change curves
- - Curse of comms
- - Coach Retreat in London
- - Four Things to Teach our Children
- - Humbling coding experience
2012
- - Innovation games at XP Days Benelux 2012
- - Lessons in Motivation
- - Commodities
- - The timetable
- - Slow down to improve quality
- - How many seconds in a day?
- - Chasing Cycle Time
- - Dress-down Friday
- - The abuse of refactoring
- - I don't need no CV ... but it can be helpful
- - What’s wrong with the Retrospective Prime Directive?
- - Your software projects are missing a DNR
- - Are your retrospectives suffering from the Hawthorne effect?
- - ACE2012 - Homework followup
- - ACE 2012 - Where Bad Code Comes From
- - Challenging the Feedback Door
- - How To Take Charge Of Your Principles
- - The story of 3M Post-its
- - Paid to take responsibility
- - Stop them or let them fail?
- - Slow down to go faster
- - I'm Only Doing My Job
- - 30 Years of Personal Change
- - Agile Teams Are Neglecting Design
- - Agile vs Waterfall in one word
- - Office Temperature
- - Do we really need WCFMock
- - My rights at work
- - Don't waste your failures
2011
- - My Boss Gave Me a Terrible Present
- - ALE Bathtub IV
- - Work life balance
- - Skill
- - Zygmunt Glazer (1922 - 2011)
- - Ice Cream Sandwich
- - Building trust requires risk
- - License and Attribute
- - A happy marriage.
- - Valuable divorce
- - An Unconference Model
- - I'm back from Berlin
- - Going to Berlin
- - Shelf Stackers
- - Random Riots
- - Protecting the coastal dunes
- - Summer Discoveries
- - Root cause of Kanban failure
- - Nightmare agile
- - Agile coach Olaf
- - Motivation 3.0
- - Jurgen's keynote at ACE!
- - Why I work at Energized Work
- - Acecon In Tweets
- - ACE! - The right size conference
- - Thinking in six hats
- - Use your keyboard shorcuts
- - Reclaim your clipboard in Visual Studio with ReSharper
- - Build token
- - Make the invisible - visible
- - A3 chartering
- - Software craftsmanship context
- - Software craftsmanship discussion
- - Flavour of usability
2010
- - Pairing with @jbrains
- - Reading 97TEPSK
- - WPF drop shadow with Windows DWM API
- - Is anything wrong with Scrum?
- - Certified ScrumMaster
- - Hours of remaining effort
- - The years of experience fallacy
- - LeanSSC UK 2010
- - Job Description
- - Motivating factors
- - Object to code serializer
- - Developer's flight control
- - Trusted Advisor
- - The role of failure
- - Openvolcano10
- - Mobile trust
- - Change of management
- - TODO or not to do
- - Changing headlight bulb in Citroen C4
- - There is no proxy for trust
- - Stop measuring defects
- - Podcast gem from Uncle Bob
- - Podcasts
- - Epic Journey and why Gantt Charts don't Work
- - Pragmatic Unit Testing