ChristineFailing IT security at a major bankI have a credit card for my business. It is a ‘business card’ from ING bank. They gave me an app for managing the account and for…Jun 12, 2023Jun 12, 2023
ChristineWhy the old Lego was so much better than today’s Lego.When I was a child in the late fifties, I just loved Lego. I must have been three or four years old when I got my first Lego. They were…May 27, 20222May 27, 20222
ChristineHow to pitch your ideaIn 2001, I was attending the Être conference in Rome. Être was the major tech startup conference in Europe back then, all VCs attended, it…Mar 29, 2022Mar 29, 2022
ChristineWhat does a product owner do?Before there was Agile and Scrum, there were no Product Owners. In my first job as a software developer at a bank, in the 1980’s, we had a…Mar 3, 2022Mar 3, 2022
ChristineNimble Software DevelopmentToday, if you work in software development, you use Scrum. Or Kanban. You are Agile. But does it work? Does it help you toachieve the goals…Feb 11, 2022Feb 11, 2022
ChristineWhy transgender athletes should not participate in women’s sportsIn the Netherlands, parliament will later this month pass a law for ‘gender self-id’. Self-id means that any person can have the sex on…Feb 2, 20223Feb 2, 20223
ChristineVan Gogh goes ScrumEvery IT project today uses Scrum or something like it. Every manager is happy that their teams use Scrum, because when you use Scrum, you…Dec 12, 2021Dec 12, 2021
ChristineA User Story is not a unit of workI first learned about “User Stories” when in my company, we started to use Extreme Programming. I didn’t give them much thought, they were…Oct 1, 2021Oct 1, 2021
ChristineWhat does a Scrum Master really do?Before I start, I want to say that I dislike the term “scrum master”. The word “master” implies a man. I tried “scrum mistress”, but that…Sep 29, 2021Sep 29, 2021
ChristineHow Scrum is brokenMy favorite guide to working in an agile way is “The Knowledge Creating Company” by Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi. In their book…Jun 5, 20212Jun 5, 20212