The new year also brought a new customer for me: At the start of January I started at the Digital Solutions Center of Schiphol Airport. They have an awesome project going on, and I operate in one of the two scrum teams there. When you’re starting with a new customer that has adapted Scrum (or…
For WeCamp 2014, we were creating multiple teams that would all work on their own project. But since we wanted to maximize the exposure of all delegates to the lessons learned by all teams, we needed to create a moment where people could exchange their ideas, their lessons, their work. Since our schedule already contained…
Since a few weeks we’ve really truely implemented some agile methods in our biggest project (Jongeren in Beeld). Since others may benefit from knowing how we have approached this, I want to share our implementation of the agile approach of software development in a PHP project with the world. First of all, I actually wrote…
In the most recent article on the agile development weblog, author Kelly Waters makes an excellent point: If you follow the Scrum principles, it will probably feel natural, because it is actually using common sense in development. It is very weird that most development teams don’t actually work according to Scrum. And so, obviously, the…
While working for TomTom, I got introduced into the world of Agile Development. One of the most useful things I got to learn, aside from firmly planned iterations, was the morning stand-up meeting: A short meeting to go through what every has done, what everyone will be doing, and where people are stuck. These meetings…