Esther Derby gave a great presentation @ Agile 2009 called Performance without Appraisals: what to do about performance reviews.
In this TED talk, Daniel Pink quote’s some research that proves why appraisals don’t work for Information Workers.
Vera Peters and myself gave a workshop in London on the same topic. You can find [...]
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Yesterday I receive this e-mail:
Dear friends,
Sorry to bother you, but I’m asking for your advice on the followingmatter. My company is engaged in a project that is losing money.It’s a fixed-scope, fixed-money and we’ve badly underestimated theeffort required. For the record, we started in May last year, and weestimated it would be over in a [...]
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This week I went to Gent with my two sons by bus. As I had little money on me as we left, I paid the bus by SMS for the first time.
When we came back My mobile phone ran out of power before we got home. So I was in doubt what would happen if [...]
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The last year I have organized 3 open BootCamp in Europe and 2 closed bootcamp’s.
We have just set two new dates for more BootCamp’s to come:
From 5 till 10 October 2008
From 8 till 13 February 2009
Pricing:
Price for a full week everything included: € 3900.
Partners of people coming to BootCamp can join the same BootCamp for [...]
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I have posted a while ago my problems with the new KBC online way of working.
This post explains how to make KBC Online work on Vista. This article does not talk about the installation of the Smart Card readers.
When I tried to use it using the KBC Online activator everything seemed to work fine. [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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George Dinwiddie wrote about agile compensation yesterday. I agree with the idea’s he is writing about, I don’t agree with the link he points to. That compensation list is all about personal compensation. In fact some of them kill team momentum. So I wrote my own compensating tips.
A good team compensation:
is Value based
I think a [...]
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