15 minute rule

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 [...]

Team culture

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 [...]

JOTA/JOTI

Coming weekend Scouts all over the world are making contacts with other Scouts. They will do this with the help of amateur radio operaters, then it’s called Jamboree On The Air (JOTA). Or via internet, then it’s called Jamboree On The Internet (JOTI). I look forward to this weekend, which I am co-organising for our local group Scouting [...]

Communication changes…. fast

While driving to the Bucharest airport (a couple of weeks ago) we had a nice talk about different ways of communication. Specially the extremely fast way it’s changing over the years.
But which media to use?
I have the idea the younger people are the faster the communication must be, easy to use and less personal, meaning less face-to-face, voice, [...]