The challenge at my current employment is to get the most out of a small team and a relatively small budget. This essay is my vision on how to accomplish that. Background At the time of writing I...

After the lockdown restrictions from the COVID-19 crisis ended we, like every other company, discussed about going back into the office. One of the arguments that repeatedly came up in favor of go...

Recently a well-accomplished Product Owner told me that he thought programmers were weird people. He thought of them as anti-social, extremely introverted and, dare I say it, akin to autistic. The ...

Clarity and focus. Effective software development teams have a clear picture of their milestones, of what is expected of them, and of the way they work. After that they need to focus to make it al...

I’ve worked on many projects during my career. Many of them eventually delivered high-quality products that were used by a good amount of customers. However, most of them went over budget, as is ve...

“You can only make a first impression once.” Can you? “First impressions are everything.” Are they? “If you don’t impress someone in the first 5 seconds you’ve lost them.” Really? I heard som...

I’ve had a discussion at work recently about the ‘etiquette’ of communicating remotely. To my surprise, some people were unclear about the proper way of communicating; meaning when it is appropriat...

I’m reading ‘Clean Agile’ by Robert C. Martin. On pages 56 and 57 he describes ‘The Bill of Rights’ as defined by Kent Beck, Ward Cunningham, and Ron Jefferies, among others. I wanted to record t...

At work, I’ve dubbed my yearly performance review the ‘yearly disappointment.’ It’s the time when my supervisor and I look back at the past year and review how much of my goals have been met. The s...

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