XP Days France 2008 - Paris, je t’aime…

On Monday 05 may & Tuesday 06 may my father and I were in Paris. Instead of visiting this beautifully city we enjoyed the people from the French Agile community.
Although the organization before was rather chaotic, XPDay.FR 2008 itself was splendid.
The first thing I noticed when we arrived was the Job Board. Hey [...]

Does your company work with external project managers/project leaders/Project coaches?

As a a freelance project coach, I am sometimes confronted with the fact that a company only wants to work with internal people. I’m trying to understand what is their motivation. To do that I asked these questions on linked in yesterday.
Does your company work with external project managers/project leaders/Project coaches? What are the advantages [...]

Perfection game on Dutch Scrum Article

More and more companies are going agile. For a small company it is the best way to outperform your big competitors. For a big company it’s the cheapest way of working. (Some big companies have to much money to care about this.) Still I am happy that more and more companies ask me to teach [...]

KBC online en gebruiks vriendelijkheid…

KBC online schakelt over naar een kaart ipv een sleutel. (Dat terwijl ik net een jaarje van Isabel naar KBC online ben overgeschakelt om van de kaart af te zijn.)
Ik ga de kaart gaan halen zodat ik later verder kan werken zonder problemen.
Aangezien ik nog wacht op een nieuwe pc maak ik daar nog geen [...]

Top 10 reasons to say NO to BootCamp

The next European BootCamp has just been announced.
Paircoaching.net holds another Reboot to Team 2.0 at Koningsteen from 15 till 20 june 2008.
To avoid that we have to much people joining, I ‘m posting our top ten reason why people should NOT follow a BootCamp.
1. My projects effortlessly complete on schedule and in budget every [...]

Reboot to Team 2.0 starts today

I don’t pretend that people will learn soft-skills at one week Bootcamp. As I told a few managers this week: you will change. I just can not predict how you will change. I do know that people that come out of bootcamp are much more focused on achieving results.
I will check in the way [...]

Reboot to Team2.0 @ Koningsteen

Today I’m preparing the Reboot to Team 2.0 (Bootcamp) of next week.
So  next week, while all of you are working hard in boring offices, I will be working even harder in a peaceful place called Koningsteen.
I think it is the best place to have such a training. A beautiful garden, nice big rooms, great food [...]

War for talent: CheaperTalentHypothesis

I completely agree with Martin Fowler on this one. Better programmers out perform worse once. (And that is why they are cheaper in the end.)
It’s a very nice example of More is less.
Maybe one slightly change to his article: in an truely agile team, when the better programmers pair with the lesser ones, they will [...]

Use V-lite to create your own stripped down version of Vista

A few weeks ago a colleague was surprised by the speed impact that Vista Ultimate had on a machine that was previously installed with Vista Home edition.
I think he will love V-lite.

 
V-lite will offer the posibility to select yourself what feature of Vista to install. From the default 15 gb to only 1.4  gb. [...]

How to unsubscribe from PairCoaching.net mailing

Yesterday night I send out a mailing to promote the new agenda from PairCoaching.net.
So I got some requests from people that wanted to be unsubscribed.
When Koen designed the website, we paid a lot of attention to the unsubscribe feature.
So everytime when I  get such a mail I am surprised. I do take them serious. I [...]