Do you belief in self-fulfilling prophecies?

I do!! If you look up ‘Self-fulfilling prophecy’ at Wikipedia you will find: The self-fulfilling prophecy is, in the beginning, a false definition of the situation evoking a new behavior which makes the original false conception come ‘true’. So if you think you will fail a test because for example you are simply not good [...]

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Learning by using what you ‘already know’

One of keys to success in Agile software development is the ability to learn and embrace change in order to deliver value. This applies to both teams and individuals in that team. In the solution focused approach we like to use resources we already have as a basis for learning and getting better at what [...]

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Looking for links

Besides blog posts about combining Solution Focused and Agile I would like to offer some links to both practices. If you just Google either Solution Focused or Agile you get millions of results. Where do you start? This is where I would like you to help me. If you are familiar with Solution Focus and [...]

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Changing ‘Why?’ into ‘How?’

Your nightly build breaks more often than not and you really need to fix it. You ask one of the team members ‘Why does the build break almost every night?’ You don’t have any intention to blame him for the broken build, but what would he feel? What if you tried using this question: ‘Just [...]

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SF and Agile, IT works!

OK, “Hello World!” was not my first blog post. I wrote my first blog post a couple of weeks ago and it can be found at SOLWorld. I will re-post it here:   This post could be read as a follow up to last year’s post on by Martin van Gogh ‘R&D goes SF’ . At [...]

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Hello World!

As a developer usually the first program you write is ‘Hello World’ so why not start my first blog post with a simple Hello World? More soon!

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