Category Archives: Agile in de Echte Wereld
‘Agile in de echte wereld’ book on Agile Alliance website
Glad to see that my book Agile in the echte wereld- Starten met Scrum got listed on the website of the Agile Alliance. You can check it out by clicking on the book cover.
Scaling Agile with SAFe – An experience story by Randy Soet
Yesterday we organised a Squerist Agile Knowledge Session at our office in Veenendaal. With 25+ colleagues we gathered for diner and a story on the agile journey of Randy Soet from Achmea. Randy is MT member and manager of three … Continue reading
The role of the Agile Coach in the 3rd wave of agile – part 2
Two weeks ago Bits & Chips published the first part of my new article on agile transformations: The role of the agile coach in the 3rd wave of agile – part 1. I am pleased to share the second part … Continue reading
Verankering in organisatie cruciaal voor welslagen Agile
For Bits&Chips magazine I wrote an article about successful agile adoptions. In the article I state that embedding the agile processes and mind-set in the rest of the organization is crucial for its success. I refer to Jeff Sutherland’s Aggressive … Continue reading
Scaling Agile Interactive Session
I am proud to announce that we will host an interactive session at Valori. On Monday 9 April we’ll compare three scaling agile frameworks. Together we’ll discuss the challenges that we encounter when we scale up our agile. What problems are … Continue reading
Refinement as a quality enabler-lessons learned in an agile sales environment
I currently work as an Agile coach in a sales environment. A commercial environment differs from a general IT setting and applying agile in this volatile environment brings its own challenges. Fortunately, when you start translating these challenges to the … Continue reading
Review of “Agile in de echte wereld- Starten met Scrum”
Ronald Bos and Karin Dieleman work for respectively for Technolution and ASML.They are also readers of Bits & Chips magazine, Both wrote a review of my latest book Agile in de echte wereld- Starten met Scrum. I am proud to read … Continue reading
4 tips for when you are starting with Scrum
Managementbook.nl is an online bookstore that sells books for professionals and managers. They also offer my latest book “Agile in the real world, starting with Scrum“. I wrote a blog for them in which I share 4 tips from the … Continue reading
Agile Coachen – Het kalibreren van de MachTeam
My latest column on Agile Coaching has been picked up by AgileNieuws. AgileNieuws.nl is a Dutch website on Agile. For this community platform I translated my English text in to Dutch. You can read the dutch version here: Agile Coachen – … Continue reading
Day 3: Agile in the real world – 7th position at online bookstore
Agile in de echte wereld- Starten met Scrum is available since Monday. An enthusiastic reader informed me that on one of the bigger online bookstores the book is doing very well. It’s on the 7th position of best-selling agile books, and … Continue reading
My new book is out! Agile in the Real World
This week the first copies of my new book were delivered at the Valori office. I was really proud when I browsed though the 120+ full color pages. the book looks inviting and the illustrations are a nice addition to the … Continue reading
New Book: Agile in the real world, starting with Scrum
I am proud to provide a sneak preview of my new book. The artwork for “agile in de echte wereld – Starten met Scrum” (Agile in the real world, starting with Scrum) is reaching its final phase. Next step is to … Continue reading
The Refinement process; Thinking ahead increases adaptively and the quality of the solution
Refinement is an important element of Scrum. It’s the process where the product backlog items for future sprints are prepared. Experience learns that when development teams get up to steam, the refinement process becomes a new bottleneck. The development team … Continue reading
