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Top 2007 Music

My top music selection for 2007:

An End Has A Start1. Editors – An End Has A Start watch / 2. Bloc Party – A Weekend In The City / 3. PJ Harvey – White Chalk / 4. Interpol – Our Love To Admire / 5. Kaiser Chiefs – Yours Truly, Angry Mob / 6. Arcade Fire – Neon Bible / 7. Grinderman / 8. Arctic Monkeys – Favorite Worst Nightmare / 9. Brett Anderson

Fascinating and hopeful to find that there are bands able to put out a second recording that exceeds their already incredible debut album.

Apologies to Trent. Continue reading Top 2007 Music
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The enterprise and Scrum

The enterprise and ScrumAfter reading Ken Schwaber’s last book ‘The enterprise and Scrum’ and my recent change of employer, I’ve put the emphasis of my approach, my presentations and my framework on the process of Scrum more. The previous 4 years I have been practicing and promoting Scrum mainly from the combination with eXtreme Programming because my professional context was custom software development (mainly JavaEE).

At the same time I have more stressed the idea of ‘Value Driven Development’ (both in my -excel based- framework as well as in my introduction to Scrum). Reminds me of the fact that I should now include ‘sustainable pace’ as essential in Scrum as well, and not merely as an adoption from XP.

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Een reis begint

Weest welgekomen en viert (Valentijn). Leuk om te beginnen bloggen op de overgecommercialiseerde, geheel onnatuurlijke en gruwelijk opgedrongen ‘dag van de Liefde’. Maar hey, niks om ons druk over te maken. Right?Omdat - Roger MJ De Neef

Toch maar lekker een mooie dichtbundel gekregen van mijn lieve vrouw (aka prettig georganiseerde chaos): “OMDAT” van Roger De Neef, uitgegeven bij Het Poëziecentrum en genomineerd geweest voor de Grote Prijs Herman De Coninck (etwas). Mij eerder geheel onbekend (maakt het leuk), maar even doorbladerd en ziet er veelbelovend uit.