During the last months, I've been working on this article. It shares stories about the software industry in Singapore and my perspective on why it will have to improve a lot in the future. I've written this article because I've frequently have discussions on
"There's always a duck" is a LeanPub book written by Elisabeth Hendrickson (a friend of mine). You can find the book here. Since it is a LeanPub book, I can't review it on Amazon.com therefore I'll just post it on my
Today, accidentally, we invented a new term: Dependency Objection :) We started using dependency objection in design by preventing dependencies so that we don't need to inject them anymore later. Thus prefer to do DO over DI. Interesting...
Singapore Airlines is one of the worlds most respected airlines. They keep winning airline awards. I happened to live in Singapore and therefore it is most easy for me to fly Singaporeair. And, I have to admit, it is one of the better airlines and I especially notice this when
This post relates to a post written by a friend George Dinwiddie related to the Satir Change Model. In the post he refers to a tweet I made related to the Satir Change Model. I'd like to add some clarification and argue that it is not "just
In the previous blog post, I gave a list of points when adopting agile in an organization. One of them was: * Start with one team but immediately make the organizational changes needed to support that one team. But what does that mean "the organizational changes needed to support that
I'm frequently asked whether I got tips for how to start an agile adoption. A lot of people are looking for the ten step magic recipe that will magically transform their organization to an agile organization. I tend to reply with the 'bad' news first: Every
Everyone knows it! Nokia is *not* doing well. The new Windows strategy is not popular with the (geeky) public or Nokia employees. Recently, a couple of blog posts and comments have been posted about Scrum, Nokia and "The Nokia Test". I don't want to criticize the
The last month, I've come across this issue several time, to my surprise (because it hasn't come up in the years before). If you are wrapping tests around legacy code and the legacy code has a C-style assert in the production code, then what do you
Review posted on amazon.com: I was looking forward to David Anderson's book. While I wasn't enthusiastic about his previous book: Agile Management, I liked his new work and the balanced view on change he is promoting. It all made me curious. I've not
Below is a draft of an article I've been working on. Any comments are welcome! ------------------------------------------------- Specialization in Scrum is a hot topic for already many years. It pops up at every Scrum course I do. It is an important topic and is relevant for a new team
Last weeks, I've been able to spend time with my good friend Lasse Koskela. He was in Singapore for three weeks to work together on a new "Scrum Developer" training. During the creation of the training, we came across the "repair manifesto" which inspired
An error message I just don't want to forget. Today, I got this error message in some code: error: invalid preprocessing directive #eror (do read it carefully)
Feature teams are an important part of scaling Agile and Scrum to large products. Me and Craig have written extensively about feature teams in our two books. Till now, the 'best' description about feature teams was probably the Feature Team chapter of the Scaling Lean & Agile book.
A friend of mine, Sami Lilja, send me a photo of his son studying how to scale Agile and Lean development (below). Sami recently started a new company called Kollabora. Hope he has much success with that, perhaps his son will be the youngest scaling agile & lean expert in
I've added mocking support to the CppUTest C/C++ unit testing framework. Id like to clarify why I've added it, why I've added it the way it is and how you can use it. Why mocking? I won't cover why mocking and