MarcEvers

As an independent coach, trainer, consultant, ... I help developers, customers, and project managers in co-creating value through meaningful projects, by coaching, consulting, and developing software. Since 2000 I co-organize workshops and conferences (like XP Day Benelux and Agile Open) based on systems thinking, extreme programming, and agile values, principles, and practices.

You can read more about my thoughts on agile, software development, and other stuff, on my company website, in my weblog and on my homepage.

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Some interesting stuff

• Working Together In "War Rooms" Doubles Teams' Productivity, University Of Michigan Researchers Find
• Forced Ranking is Stupid
• Frameworks are leading indicators for programming languages
• Going Home - Our Reformation (By Robert Paterson)
• The long tail of software. Millions of Markets of Dozens.
• Long Tail vs. Bottom of Pyramid
• Dunbar, Altruistic Punishment, and Meta-Moderation
• Situated Software
• Stanford Prison Experiment
• Continuations for Curmudgeons
• Seaside tutorial
• No Best Practices
• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - Video Lectures by Hal Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman
• Design debt
• Magic Numbers - Are Tribes Forming in the Blogosphere to do work?

Systems thinking, Lean, ToC

• Drucker on The Whole vs. The Part
• Vanguard articles (written by John Seddon)

Software Development - focusing on the people issues

• Focus on the People Issues
• People Matter Most
• Self-organization
• Unjust Deserts?
• Project Meeting Protocols: Daily Coordination for Managing Promises
• Project Meeting Protocols: Look-Ahead Planning

Agile Software Development & XP

• Being There
• Code as Documentation
• When Project Managers Attack!
• Cook Until Done
• Ruby and Embedded Domain-Specific Languages
• Architecture & Agility: Strange Bedfellows?

Wikis, blogs, knowledge management, enterprise social software

• Blogs & Wikis: Technologies for Enterprise Applications?
• Connecting People With Content
• Weblogs und Wikis als Wissensmanagement-Werkzeuge: Gemeinsamkeiten, Unterschiede, Einsatzm�glichkeiten
• The Social Enterprise
• Socialtext
• JotSpot
• Centered Communication: Weblogs and aggregation in the organisation

Acceptance testing

• WATIR User Guide

Project management and prioritization

• Managing Programming for CEOs Part 3 � Features Kill

Change and learning

• Pedagogical Patterns
• Incremental vs. revolutionary improvements
• Change or Die

Retrospectives

• An Interesting Retrospective Idea - Emotions Box
• Taking Time to Think

Ruby

• Distributing Ruby Applications
• Using the Rake Build Language

Training and coaching

• Ten Tips for New Trainers/Teachers

(Un)conferencing

• Open-Sourcing Conferences
• Foo Camp: ad-hoc learning
• Build something cool in 24 hours
• Unconferencing
• How to organise valuable congresses/conventions
• Unconferencing, Long Tail of Conferencing?
• No Fluff, Just Stuff
• Events: wikis, blogs, podcasts and a diagram for how they might fit together

Classics

• Luca Cardelli & Peter Wegner, On Understanding Types, Data Abstraction, and Polymorphism (PDF)