Nayima

People

Pascal — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 16:32:58 +0000

I have worked with and recommend the following excellent people.

Belgium

	Vera Peeters at TRYX can make people and teams perform things they thought were impossible. Not by bossing them around, but by gently helping them to transcend the limits they have imposed upon themselves and by buying snacks to celebrate each accomplishment.
	Stien Michiels at Ziraffa brings out your creative and communication skills in fun and unexpected ways. There’s never a dull moment when you work with Stien.

Great Britain

Portia Tung at emergn has the experience as developer, leader and coach to really understand how projects work and can be improved. Portia pays attention to the technical details as well as the big picture. But most importantly, Portia pays attention to the people in the project.

The Netherlands

	Erik Groeneveld at CQ2 develops software with high quality and value, quickly and reliably. And he coaches software development teams to do it themselves.
	Peter Schrier at Tricat Agileon has the patience to gently coach his customers into changing the way they develop software. He knows you can’t change completely at once, but you can improve each day.
	Marc Evers at Piecemeal Growth has deep knowledge and understanding of IT, which he uses to say and do the right thing at the right time, when it has the most effect.
	Rob Westgeest at Westgeest Consultancy has extensive knowledge and experience in technologies and methods, from which he can select the right tool at the right time. He’s an excellent facilitator who helps to make everyone heard and to make everyone hear.

Events

Pascal — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 15:56:07 +0000

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Writing

Pascal — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 15:38:58 +0000

Blog

More about Agile, Lean, Systems Thinking and many other subjects on the “Thinking for a Change” blog.

Books

Managing Agile Projects edited by Kevin Aguanno. This book contains two chapters by Pascal Van Cauwenberghe:

An introduction to iterative and incremental delivery
Succeeding with agile fixed price contracts

Extreme Programming Perspectives. This book contains two chapters by Pascal Van Cauwenberghe:

“Refactoring or Upfront Design?“, an update of the paper presented at the XP 2001 conference.
“The XP Game explained“, written with Vera Peeters, explains the reasoning behind the XP Game simulation.

Papers

It’s a fine line between chatting and pairprogramming: If you don’t look closely it’s hard to see the difference between two programmers chatting or pair programming. Maybe you need to look closer. Or maybe not, you only need to look at the result.
Succeeding with “Agile Fixed Price” projects Part 1: The Price is right! describes how you qualify, sell and manage projects with fixed-price contracts without losing your customer or going broke.
Succeeding with “Agile Fixed Price” projects Part 2:”Do you want agility with that?”. They said XP and fixed-price would never work. They were right. But that doesn’t mean Agile and fixed-price don’t work. This paper describes how you can apply “agile” or “Lean Development” techniques to further improve your chances of successfully managing fixed-price projects.
Bob the project manager thinks about systems is a short and simple introduction to Systems Thinking. It tells the story of Bob the project manager who, with the help of his mentor Jinnie, learns to apply Systems Thinking to the situations he encounters as a project manager.
Going round and round and getting nowhere fast? in the Winter 2002 issue of Methods and Tools explores the way different software development methods use iteration and increments. The text proposes some heuristics to apply iterative and/or incremental techniques judiciously.
Refactoring or Upfront Design? This paper was presented at the XP 2001 conference. It explores the tradeoffs to be made between doing a lot of analysis and design work upfront on the one hand, and refactoring iteratively and taking small incremental steps.

Nayima

Pascal — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:21:51 +0000

Building great products is easy:
build a great organisation and they’ll build it for you.

What is a great organisation?

Great organisations we’ve worked with in the past have

delivered products several times faster than it used to take AND
improved the quality of their product, approaching zero defects AND
identified innovations that delivered more value than expected AND
improved collaboration across the organisation AND
strengthened the organisation through continuous improvement and learning AND
reduced stress levels AND
did all of this sustainably, repeatably, release after release

Improving along any one of those dimensions is not too hard.

Improving ALL of these aspects of your organisation is only possible with a different way of working, learning and thinking.

Evolution, not revolution

These improvements don’t happen overnight, they’re the result of gradual evolution. By implementing systematic continuous improvement you build an organisation that keeps getting better every day.

We can help you understand the system, see the opportunities and identify the small steps that take you in the right direction.

Have a look at the many free learning materials (like the XP Game, the Business Value Game or the Bottleneck Game) we provide on the Agile Coach site.

By sharing our work with the community we can increase its quality and reach. You are assured that you can continue on your learning journey without limitations or constraints.

Contact

Pascal — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:16:42 +0000

Nayima was founded in 1998 by Pascal Van Cauwenberghe.

Pascal Van Cauwenberghe is a consultant based in Brussels who tries to solve more problems than he creates. To do this, he uses Agile, Lean, Theory of Constraints and Systems Thinking techniques.

He’s one of the founders of the Belgian XP group and one of the organizers of XP Days Benelux. One day he and Vera Peeters invented the “XP Game“, because they couldn’t explain XP to their team and customers. They’ve learned that games are an ideal way to learn. Since then he tries to transform work into play…

Contact us

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Sint Pancratiuslaan 49
1933 Sterrebeek
Belgium

Tel: +32 476 997428
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