Show me the money!

Change processes are difficult to do. Most of them fail to have the intended results. The reasons for that can be many, of course. There is one, though, that is of particular interest to me today.  “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” [...]

Posted at 12pm on 4/21/13 | 7 comments | Filed Under: Agile, Lean, Lean Startup, Management, Stoos | read on

Spikes, they’re sharp

One of the concepts that came from XP is the Spike. Especially in teams new to agile, there can be confusion on what a Spike is, and how to deal with them. The best definition of a Spike I’ve found is this one: “Spike” is an Extreme Programming term meaning “experiment”. We use the word [...]

Posted at 4pm on 4/12/13 | 6 comments | Filed Under: Agile, Programming, shorties | Tagged: , | read on

About

This is the blog of Wouter Lagerweij.

I love spending time with teams and organizations to figure out how to improve the way they make software, and make it more fun.  

To make that happen I use the knowledge and skills gathered in over ten years of experience applying Agile processes and practices from XP, Scrum, Kanban, Lean and Systems Thinking. Occasionally, I even use common sense.