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At it-agile, all data concerning the company is accessible by all employees. That includes salaries, expenses, earnings etc. But even though I can dig through all the data to get the information I am after, I wouldn’t say that the…

Lean Startup Distilled

[You can find a German translation here.]

Gestern habe ich ein Interview mit Frank Thielen mit dem reißerischen Titel “Das Lean Startup ist tot” gelesen. Beim Lesen musste ich einige Male den Kopf schütteln und ich möchte hier kurz zu einigen Aussagen…

One of the most debated and debatable XP practices is Pair Programming. Here is what I found to work best for me: willing spontaneous pairing (to carry on Arlo Belshee’s wonderfully ambiguous ‘Promiscuous Pairing’).

In the it-agile Startup March we tried to make decisions based solely on hard facts. No more guessing or subjective opinions, just objective numbers. This appealed a lot to the mathematician in me. I, and most other participants had just read Eric Ries’…

Lean startup language design

At a recent hackathon, I was noodling around with Dart. I thought it was great that Google made it…

The residents of Java are waiting. Waiting for the day when another city will rise to supremacy in JVMland. These days they are looking north towards the functional territories and watch with interest as the new cities Kotlin…