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My musings on anything from leadership to technology to entrepreneurship and back.

Jan 19, 2023

Dual Track Agile Success Patterns

If your product manager is close to a burnout and nothing gets done, then dual track agile might be the solution. Implementation is straight-forward, but there are some patterns you should follow to make it work.

Jan 2, 2023

Effective Meetings

Most meetings are a waste of time. Let's check out the best way to change that!

Dec 17, 2022

How to Make QA Work in Engineering

In many companies, a QA department is started with the best intentions. But after a while QA slows down the cycle time and complaints keep coming in. Let's talk about some patterns that work and that don't work when it comes to QA in engineering.

Oct 19, 2022

What makes leaders effective?

What makes leaders effective? Peter Drucker got an answer for us.

Oct 12, 2022

How to reorganize an IT department successfully

Reorganizations of IT departments are the daily bread of growing companies. But how can you make a reorg a success?

Sep 29, 2022

Flight levels

If your organization gets slower after an agile reorganization then flight levels might come to the rescue.

Sep 15, 2022

Rust versus Go

Rust and Go are two languages that both compile down to native code. How to they compare to each other? And which language should you use in your next project? Let's check it out!

Sep 11, 2022

A checklist for architecture proposals

We engineers are famously known for creating complicated systems that nobody understands at the end. Here's a checklist I used to guide my and my teams decisions and reign in many of the stupid ideas I had in the past.

Oct 24, 2020

Accelerate by Forsgren et al - book review

Accelerate became a classic book describing what makes a high performing IT department. But is it really cool? Let's check it out.

Sep 1, 2020

Hamilton Helmer's 7 Powers

As CTO and VP it is your responsibility to shape the strategy of your business. Hamilton Helmer's 7 Powers is one of the best frameworks to define a great business strategy.