Blugh. Meditation. Not for me! Or so I thought. — When I walked to the Topsport Community Event in the Jumbohal in Veghel, I was completely unaware of the promise I’d make to myself later that day. In the daily hassle with my overly filled agenda and even bigger todo-list and mailbox, I wasn’t able to actually read the invite…

I’ve always thought to myself, gosh if someone could just write an article about the first step into that adventure… That would help me understand what I’m getting myself into. And what you wish for yourself you should also allow another :-). As some of you might know, I’ve set…

Maar zonder oplossingen, wil ik niet klagen — Disclaimer: Alles wat ik hier schrijf is mijn persoonlijke mening en ik ben — by no means — de kennishouder op deze gebieden. Heb geen ministeries achter me die het zouden moeten weten, of onderbouw met duidelijke cijfers. Toch heb ik me de afgelopen jaren verbaasd over een boel keuzes…

The sentence you can play with when pressure is highest. — Managing priorities sounds like an easy task everybody has to deal with. But in reality, when the pressure is on it’s one of the hardest things to do. Everything might seem or feel equally important. And trust me, I’ve been there more than once. There’s this once sentence that might…

In a Service Oriented Architecture based on Domain Driven Design — Big enterprises generate and consume a tonne of data. Jumbo Supermarkets in example has to process a lot of orders created by customers. But we have to do analytics over them as well, being able to make the proper forecasts and reduce waste in the entire chain. We haven’t became…

The key to regaining confidence and feeling capable with an everlastingly increasing workload — “And how many hours did you say your day had?” Is the usual question when I tell people about my life. At home I have gazillion hobbies, 4 kids, a dog, 4 sheep, 20 chickens, 4 beehives, an insanely big garden and many friends I hold dear. At work, I am responsible for technological change management of the second biggest…

The bigger your organisation becomes, the harder it seems to become to keep each other in check when it comes to delivery. Simple epics that should take one sprint can become 4 sprints, and hard stories that seemed impossible can be done in half the time. This erratic and unpredictable…

What are they, and what are they to us. — We constantly talk about services. Many of us vaguely understand what they are and get the gist of it. The risk however is that — since it’s such an easy topic to discuss about — we often miss a deep common understanding. …

And the difference between knowing and experiencing — During the pandemic I’ve been assisting my team lead with the multi-year plan for my company. I’ve invested quite some energy in that, and this didn’t went unnoticed by my lead and his. I’ve received a voucher with a certain amount of credit that I could spend on an activity…