Posted on April 29, 2009 by Tom van Lamoen
If you have a problem, if no-one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the A-Team.
For those of us that are not so lucky to find the A-team, we need another solution. A nice rule I saw implemented in my Lviv team is the 15 minute rule. If you [...]
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Posted on April 10, 2009 by Tom van Lamoen
In the past I have done a couple of projects (all CMS websites or portal development) where the deadline and budget were fixed, and the scope variable. Most of the times because the Senior User (business/client) did not completely know what they wanted at the start of the project. This is a problem. During the [...]
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Posted on March 13, 2009 by Tom van Lamoen
A couple of weeks ago I wend hiking in Belgium with my Scouts. And it was really nice, good weather, a nice route. After one and a half day we crossed a road which leads to the village Hotton, and we knew we also had to go through that village. One of the Scouts suggested: [...]
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Posted on November 27, 2008 by Tom van Lamoen
Some time ago I was doing a project in Germany. I worked closely with a lot of people at the client, on location in Germany. What better way to discover the cultural differences
I was surprised. Germany and The Netherlands are neighbouring countries, but there were more differences than I expected.
Compared to Dutch people [...]
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