Category Archives: communication

Defect handling in an Agile approach

Software, as any complex product, will have defects. Plain and simple, no point in denying the facts. That said, the question is how can we handle them. First and foremost we should obviously strive to have as few as possible … Continue reading

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The hotmail CV tax

Whenever I have a (technical) person applying and they have a hotmail address as their preferred means of contact I shiver ever so slightly. Even if the actual mailbox is very sensible like name.firstname, I still shiver. The problem is … Continue reading

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motivation

After a conversation with one of the suits in the office, I got an email late at night that same day… To our conversation of this morning… Kennedy’s challenge was to land a man on the moon and return him … Continue reading

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The morning routine

I’ve been trying out a new morning routine for a couple of months now. Here’s how it looks. I wake up around 8:30 I pick up my iPhone and read the mails that were sent overnight by my colleagues from … Continue reading

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Programming language

I was browsing through some resumes lately and besides the standard templates and paragraphs everybody has, there was one thing that jumped out. In the languages paragraph, one person was claiming to be fluent in the following languages: Dutch, French, … Continue reading

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Twitter

For those of you who don’t know yet, twitter is a micro blogging platform. Meaning you can post a short message (140 characters) to update people that care enough to follow you of your current ideas, activity, whereabouts or other … Continue reading

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2.0 in the Enterprise vs Enterprise 2.0

2.0 is everywhere these days. It’s not a thing reserved for early adopters anymore.  It’s found its way into politics, the media, marketing and (no surprise) the enterprise. The enterprise, Did it really? Let’s take a sidestep first and explore … Continue reading

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