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Agile working explained in 15 minutes [video]

by Peter Horsten on November 9, 2012

Personally, I really prefer to work in an Agile way. Already several years ago we started working like that at Goyello. Some clients immediately understand the advantages, other’s don’t. Explaining what Agile working means is not always that easy. But that might have changed. Today I found a great video on YouTube. In my opinion this is one of the best movies explaining the Agile way of working to a product owner I’ve ever seen. It’s a must see for everyone who claims/pretends to work in an Agile way. Bear in mind that you cannot claim to be Agile in case you didn’t organize the Product Ownership. [Read more...]

Managing software development in a Funky manner to meet client’s needs

March 26, 2010

Today at the 4Developers conference in Poznan, Poland, I presented the audience my concern about the existing gap in between client’s need and the reality of the software developers. For some reason we seem not to manage to understand each other well enough. Too many projects do not deliver the result the client was hoping [...]

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Project management in the age of Web 2.0

May 28, 2009

They already managed ages ago! So why don’t we manage to realize something as simple as a web application? That’s more or less how I started my yesterday evening’s presentation at the 3Camp meeting in Gdańsk. Ages ago people managed to fulfill miraculous projects with hardly any tools. Today we can choose from a wide range [...]

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Agile Software Development with Scrum

April 27, 2009

In my opinion traditional ways of software development have proven not to be successful. Of course there will be some examples that prove the contrary, but in general software projects are delayed and cost more. Clients are not satisfied, neither are development teams. Fortunately it is possible to solve this. Last week I discussed this [...]

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