When I say “fairy tale”, where does your mind go? I’m pretty sure it’s either sweet childhood memories or fuzzy ones from your teenage – ok, in my case, more recent – years theme parties. For me, “fairy tale” has a completely different association! When you say fairy tale, I say refinement! Crazy? Maybe! Unconventional? Definitely! Very effective? Damn sure! 🙂 I’ll tell you all about it. In refinements, I use fairy-tales when telling Read More …

Let me start off with wishing you all, our wonderful readers, a healthy, happy and agile 2016 on behalf of Marijke and myself! We look forward to all the adventures, lessons, ups and downs 2016 has waiting for us! We’ll gladly share many of them with you!   Making choices.. Struggles of everyday’s life. Small choices like deciding between a cheese or ham sandwich for lunch (although some – like Read More …

Have you ever changed your Facebook relationship status to “it’s complicated?” Well, I – Saloua – did. And after many years of hard work, counseling and perseverance, it’s still complicated. No folks, not my marriage! Me and the story point.. A story point is an arbitrary measure used by squads that reflects the complexity and “needed effort to finish” a story. A story point is a relative measure. Science says humans are far Read More …

Elephant carpaccio. The first first time I heard this expression, I was laughing out loud. Please don’t start thinking about parmesan and pine nuts as this is a different kind of carpaccio! Have you ever stood at the beginning of a huge project? So huge that you had no clue where to start and how to get to the end? I remember very well my master thesis, it scared the hell Read More …