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Posts on agile software development
Yesterday it happened again. On my Twitter timeline. Someone angrily posted “developers should finally learn how to estimate better.” Another case of work not being done at the end of a sprint. Or worse, another project that didn’t make its deadlines. There isn’t a single developer out there who hasn’t run into similar experiences. After another deadline is not met, […]
Day two of a three day workshop for secretaries and assistants on everything agile.
Delivered an open registration one-day workshop on agile, continuous delivery and agile culture. See https://www.technologytransfer.eu/event/1818/Introduction_to_Agile,_Scrum,_XP,_Kanban_and_Continuous_Delivery_in_practice.html
In Cluj-Napoca I presented the closing keynote at the Agile Mammoths Games conference. Also gave an interview.
Together with Kim van Wilgen I presented Flow, the official worst software development methodology in history. We had big laughs, and people who wanted to quit their jobs after our talk .
See http://technologytransfer.eu/event/1777/Introduction_to_Agile,_Scrum,_XP,_Kanban_and_Continuous_Delivery_in_practice.html
See http://technologytransfer.eu/event/1715/Introduction_to_Agile,_Scrum,_XP,_Kanban_and_Continuous_Delivery_in_practice.html
Did the opening keynote on continuous culture at the great W-JAX Conference in Munich.
Afternoon session with over 100 participants.
Interesting open discussion on agile, requirements, use cases and stories, and a bit on microservices too. To be continued.
Even though the year is still young and still cold, I have already presented two training courses. One on microservices for a transportation company. And one on agile for teachers at a high school who want to adopt agile techniques to their classes. Although the topics were quite different, attendees at both courses had a similar background in doing agile: […]
On January 10 I presented my first talk of the year 2017 at the annual kick-off at insurance software vendor ANVA in Amersfoort, the Netherlands. The main topic is building better software faster and covers agile, (beyond) Scrum, Kanban, continuous delivery and microservices. Building Better Software Faster from Sander Hoogendoorn
This is a very interesting edition of my agile workshop where I’ve worked with the teachers from ROC Kop van Noord-Holland to investigate whether and how agile principles and techniques fit education.
In-house training course in Antwerp on agile, Scrum and Kanban.
Next edition of my workshop on agile, Scrum and all things continuous. Open registration for IT Works (www.itworks.be).
Special customized day for teaching the product owners at Roser to collaborate in agile and continuous delivery with the development team.
Did the opening at the Motorola Agile Swarming 2017 conference at the Motorola offices in beautiful Krakow.
Great conference in London where a lot of friends are speaking. Will do two talks – once again current state of affairs in agile and in microservices. See SDD
This year’s edition of CodeMotion Amsterdam was supposed to feature two of my talks. Unfortunately this edition overlaps with the SDD Conference in London (and partly with GeeCon in Krakow as well). I’m hoping to be able to make all three of them . See CodeMotion Amsterdam
Here’s the video for my closing keynote on #beyond #agile at SwanseaCon in Swansea, Wales from September 2016.
Will do both a keynote and a talk at a nice technical conference in Linz, Austria on March 1 & 2, 2017. See TopConf
Full house at my beyond agile talk at Microsoft TechDays this morning.
After an absence of two year (have done Java inbetween) I’m returning to the Microsoft TechDays. This time I’m doing two talks. One about beyond agile titled Beyond Breaking Bad, and a talk titled Thirty Months of Microservices, discussing the experiences I’ve had over the last thirty months regarding microservices and continuous delivery. See more at: http://www.techdays.nl/
In September 2016 I will do the closing keynote for SwanseaCon in Swansea, Wales. Although my talk will evaluate agile after twenty years, InfoQ interviewed me preceeding the conference on one of my other favorite topis, microservices. Here’s the answers to InfoQ’s questions. InfoQ: What are the biggest problems that organizations have with monolithic software products? Monolithical systems, written in […]
It’s April and the sun is slowly becoming more powerful, warming the people in the green and white deck chairs in Green Park in London. A few minutes ago, I took the tube to travel back to Heathrow Airport, and afterwards home. Next to me a man is playing a game on his mobile device. Despite feeling drowsy from the […]
Great event hosted by Praegus at Nijenrode University in Breukelen. Was honored to do a talk on agile, or rather on beyond Scrum. Was also a member of the discussion panel at the end of the event. See more: Become the leading example
The development and maintenance of monoliths presents organizations with increasing challenges, resulting in high costs and a slow time-to-market. More and more organizations are therefore attempting to componentize their applications. The latest and greatest paradigm Microservices finally seems to deliver on the promises of Service Oriented Architecture: shortening time-to-market, scalability, autonomy, and exchangeability of technology and databases. The challenges of […]
Since the introduction of the waterfall model in 1970 as an approach for software development projects, a lot has evolved. In the 1990’s similar ideas around iterative and Agile software development where introduced simultaneously in more and more organizations and projects, resulting in the Agile Manifesto. During this one day workshop, Sander Hoogendoorn, independent consultant and author of the highly […]
The development and maintenance of monoliths presents organizations with increasing challenges, resulting in high costs and a slow time-to-market. More and more organizations are therefore attempting to componentize their applications. The latest and greatest paradigm Microservices finally seems to deliver on the promises of Service Oriented Architecture: shortening time-to-market, scalability, autonomy, and exchangeability of technology and databases. The challenges of […]
On February 12 I will be presenting a series of three lectures for the post-doctorate year of IT Auditing at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, covering all aspects of modern software development. These three lectures will focus on waterfall, agile, Scrum, Kanban and continuous delivery. This will be the fifth consecutive year that I will present these lectures at the […]
Next to the keynote at the Software Quality Days conference in Vienna, I will run a half-day masterclass on structuring agile requirements using smart use cases One of the important and often underestimated aspects of agile and Scrum projects is how to deal with requirements. Where does the backlog actually come from? Many projects rely solely on user stories. However, […]
This open one-day on workshop will present a real-life introduction to waterfall, agile, Scrum, Kanban and even continuous delivery. Participants experience why waterfall won’t work and what it means to be in an agile project, independent of which agile approach to use. I will walk through a lot of topics during the day and will also do a number of […]
On November 18 I will run a brand-new half-day course on designing, developing en deploying a microservices architecture for Adept Events. The development and maintenance of monoliths presents organizations with increasing challenges, resulting in high costs and a slow time-to-market. More and more organizations are therefore attempting to componentize their applications. The latest and greatest paradigm microservices finally seems to […]
On November 18 I will run a brand-new half-day course on designing, developing en deploying a microservices architecture for Adept Events. The development and maintenance of monoliths presents organizations with increasing challenges, resulting in high costs and a slow time-to-market. More and more organizations are therefore attempting to componentize their applications. The latest and greatest paradigm microservices finally seems to […]
The one day edition of my workshop on everything waterfall, agile, Scrum, Kanban and continuous delivery for IT Works, including the famous dice exercise . More: http://www.itworks.be/event.php?id=SWOD20
In 2009 I hired a building contractor to build a house. Together with an architect and the contractor I worked out the features. We wanted a basement, we carefully picked the materials, the location of the windows, the placement of the rooms, the bathroom, the attic and everything the contractor needed to come up with a price and a delivery […]
Will do on of two keynotes at the Software Quality Days in Vienna, Austria. Topic will be around quality in agile software development. I will also do a half day masterclass on smart use cases. Noteworthy is that Scott Ambler will do the other keynote. Software Quality Days: http://2016.software-quality-days.com/en/ Keynotes: http://2016.software-quality-days.com/en/conference/keynotes/ My masterclass on smart use cases: http://2016.software-quality-days.com/en/conference/conference-program/