Rapid Software Testing – skilled testing unleashed
The software testing profession looks like a steadily maturing profession from the outside. After all, there are certification schemes like ISTQB, CAT, IREB and QAMP (the one to rule them all), standards (ISO 29119) and companies reaching TMM (test maturity model) levels that – just like a Spinal Tap guitar amplifier – one day might even go up to 11. The […]
The Key Difference of Innovation vs Business As Usual
In times of economic crisis it is important for organizations to optimize their effectiveness in order to survive. In many cases, people jump to cost optimization, only looking at their bottom line. And there is nothing wrong with that, as long as you don’t forget the role of the customers and end-users. In many cases […]
Get in charge of your life! Optimize for happiness. (our book story)
From time to time you feel bad as a consequence of the way you live our life. Either you know about it or you do not know about it, but in many cases you just accept the situation as it is and keep living your life the way you were. Well… it should not be […]
Entrepreneurs Design Their Metrics for Success
Something we do together with our partner for the Belgian startup and entrepreneurial community is what we call the “Startup Coaching Retreats” and is based on similar principles as all the above but focused on the needs of entrepreneurs with a startup company. – see report of our first run ‘here‘ – Participation for the ones […]
iStart Coaching Retreat Kick-Off
June 29th was the day of a new beginning for the iStart mentoring track that was setup between IBBT, Erik Talboom & myself (Jurgen De Smet). About the iStart Coaching Retreat We believe that, next to financial guidance, it is equally important to explore various systems, models, techniques, practices and experiences on how to go […]
Kanban retreat #1 experience report
On April 7th we had our first kanban retreat as a means of peer to peer exchange, having a safe place to bounce ideas amongst each other and learn. In order to get the people into the kanban state of mind, we started off with the famous getKanban board game (the beta version we bought some time ago) followed with an imaginary, yet […]
Innovation Games for Process Optimization
First time I have been using Innovation Games was about 6 years ago for product innovation and in the mean time I have been experimenting with different games for different purposes but always in the atmosphere of product design & implementation with and without customers, with and without end users… different settings, different games but […]