marcusoft.net - sharing is learning

Marcus private

Christmas greeting

Role models - Christian the developer

Role models - Staffan the consultant

How do you get so much done?

TDD for 9 year olds - an experiment in teaching my sons class

When we used user story mapping to plan our move

Some thoughts after running the marshmallow challenge with kids

3 success factors for a big room planning

Here people are saying kind things about each others

A decade of blogging...

The Brickell Key Award - I am nominated!

What is important, really?

My day off

Me and my kidneys

The 1000th post

Make a command to count my files

What the traffic in Jakarta taught me about slack

Things I say often: I run on feedback

Best advice for me this year

Our Christmas Scare

Gods care through the Band Tune Book

The "Don't fear audits and the news"-business methodology - with certification

The humble blogger approach - some practical tips

Embrace uncertainty - the family version

Vision statements - why not say what you REALLY mean?

Ugly clothing, symbols and values

Coaching exercise - building Lego

Move the authority to the information, and not the other way around

You control the disappointment dial - use it!

What I missed, longed for, happy to not have from fasting from social media

Aligning our sights - what Indonesians taught me, part I

For the Indonesian War Cry: Achieve more by doing less

For the Indonesian War Cry: On Motivation

Share your internet connection via WiFi on Windows 8.1

What do you want to give customers; bad or good news?

Some experience with uncertainty

CodeBetter - a new home for part of me

Moving to Indonesia

AppHarbor, Nancy and the Could not load file or assembly 'Nancy.ViewEngines.Razor.BuildProviders' error

Suggested visualization for the SÖS Children Emergency

www.marcusoft.net - 800 posts and counting

Hello Aptitud!

Good bye Avega!

Dear Marcus ... there's no "but" to follow.

It’s a cultural thing

I’m writing a book on Kanban!

Solution to closing the lid of my MacBook cause it to get VERY hot

Home with children – everything’s fine

Arvid and Gustav

Saturday of brass band, presenting and fun

Life changing events

Music and photos from Vasa Band

Vasa Band does it again

Marcus and Mac: my clumsy fingers

Powerpoint online – 280 slides

Vaccation memories

Marcus doing new stuff

Vasa Band and Saturday night success

The Flight of the Concords

Vacation time and stress management

Albert preparing for the summer

What I am watching

Hard to get started, Salvation Army and brass banding

Pictures from Ethopia

Home again

Sprint Planner Helper - Vaccation halt

Debating a hero

Årets höjdare 2009

He walks!

Japanese Toilet Training

In control IV – Håkan Björkman

Mini-vacation at Hyppeln

Vasakåren - new website

Sync Issues – my contact are back

Abbe in the pulka-slopes

Prayer works – Jesus hears them

First day of parental leave - I love it!

What to do now - Sprint Planner Helper Initialization

Last day - new chapter

About this blog

Abbe - a December update

Christmas times - hectic times

Leave my WiFi-card alone! Please!

The blog in stereo

Swedish Brass Band Championships 2008

Abbe - going strong

Write up...

You have to manually tell RockBox to charge via USB

I'm still alive...

Full speed and free

VasaBand - full speed ahead

New layout

I was first!

Sleepless in Stockholm

Retreat - creative silience

Result of modelling

ScrumIndexCardCreator - my first CodePlex project

The vacation - short recap

Modelling - the result

New model job

Resting

Over soon

Marcusoft - Now in many languages

First laughter from Albert

Weekend over - let's rest

Commenting the Stockholm Marathon

Back on the shelter

Punk being nice

Avega - I like it!

A night at the shelter

Albert - 2 and half... months

Running Vista

Abbe - growing and growing

Great project started

code-tag in Firefox

New life!

A son is born!

Rhetorics - a good start

Time to come down?

The Phone House Disapointment Story - last chapter

True stuff doesn't need to be boring - The Tao of programming

Quality, reclamation and phones

2008 - what a year to look forward to!

2007 - coming to an end

O holy night

Sicko

Weekend report - part 2

Weekend report - part 1

4BarsRest - review of 'In perfect peace'

Vasakåren Jul

Håkan Björkman

Stockholm Brass Band

Marcus - published!

New euphonium sales site

VasaBand - my band!

Car!

VasaKårens Jul

Happy birthday - Marcus inside (www.marcusoft.net)

Swedish brass band championships 2007

In perfect peace

Not much

The non-exsisting Service Quality at The Phone House

Strange, sad things happening

Slow and fast

Friends in need

Moving in...

Miriam - new media reverend of Sweden?

Middagsfrid - or how to start a rebellion among your parents

British Open - the results

Morning devotional - by friend of mine

New url - http://www.marcusoft.net/

Marcus - the model

Baby - for real

Couch in the house - finally

Marcus - the model?

Candy-exposure

Facebook - explosion

Home again

Vacation!

Dignity - gone!

Wedding-times

Slowing down...

Humanism

Paris in pictures

Paris

VasaGospel release

Mobile-ban no more!

Wedding-times

Moving in!

European sounds

End of an era

Oooh - thoose sweet zomibes (?)

European - in retrospect

Pheeew...

Runway?

Home again - now with pictures

Scary stuff - all of the list

We'll meet again...

New assignment

Hectict times

More from the weekend

Easter in the archipelago

Bengt Eklund

Weekend to an end

Mum

Weekend in small big town

USB-mice eating - maybe

One Easter - coming up

Traffic in Russia

Gambling...

Art down below

Weddings...

James Watson

Useful YouTube - ExpertVillage.com

Coldness-trump

Memories from the past

Anja!

Genalogy boost

The little home genealogist

The famous Noah and his camera

Week ended - nice weekend

Mobilephones forbidden on the subway in Stockholm

Lots of things to do

Surfs up

Happy times

Phonesalesmen

Loose as a goose

Hectict week to an end

Salvo Audio - is this for real?

Futureforce of VasaCorps

Let's go!

UltraStar - free karaoke for your PC

Happy new year

Merry ... continuation

Elfing away

Pictures from caroling in Old Town

The definitive handling of phone salesmen

Caroling done for this year, almost

Hospital caroling

First Santa - completed!

YouTube Greetings

Marcus - the presenter

Weird stuff on the agenda

George doing the opposite

Glasses - first day

Glasses - today

Weekend with the Band

Concert and take-off

Christmas concert

Busy times - our choice?

Not trying on my own

The Marine biologist

Glasses ordered

Dreidel-excuse

VasaBand - on the roll

It's that time of year

Glasses

Be good - expiriment week II

RockBox - cool stuff

Happy all the day

Happy - and still going

Happy week - so far so good

Babies and their parents III

Be good!

Listen to the band

Babies and their parents II

Brassband silly season

Babies and their parents

Rock Swings?

Cancer

Snow? In Sweden?

Filmtip of today

Bicycle comeback

Marcus on the net

Tools

Introducing ScrAdd - the script adder

Scraping with Google Sheets for fun and profit

Summarizing data over several Google Sheets - an exercise in stats and formulas

Fun with scripting - running a test suite against 30 different solutions

Integrate JIRA search results in Google Sheets for fun and profit

Keeping copies of charts from Google Sheets updated automatically

My top 10 books

Summarizing and filtering data with QUERY and a Google Sheet drop-down

Create a dynamically updated chart in Google Sheets

Writing a script to extract pictures from Word documents

A walking retrospective that only turns up the good

The nervous stats checker oscillating syndrome

Reflections on TankWars or when 2 minutes was slow

Principles over (best) practices

Toyota Kata and the 'We can't do that here'-fallacy

Thank you Rob

Building a Slack command with Claudia bot builder

Claudia 1.2 - some updates that made me want to write a post

Thoughts after a SAFe course

Testing with Claudia

ClaudiaJs and console.log

Electronic process management tools - proceed with care

AWS Lambda/Claudia part II - Storing stuff

First AWS Lambda steps - using ClaudiaJs

Book review: 50 quick ideas to improve your retrospectives

Riot.js: anatomy of a tag

Speed up Jekyll site regeneration

Making dynamic chart in Excel

Review: #NoEstimates - the book

EADDRINUSE when watching tests with mocha and supertest

Requiring the os - runtime-js

Review: Nature by Ron Jeffries

npm scripting: git, version and deploy

npm scripting: configs and arguments... and some more tricks

Pre and Post hooks for npm scripting

Creating a 'Movie credits' animation in Keynote

ca 10 minutes on Root Cause Analysis

Getting Elixir to run on my OsX (init terminating in do_boot)

How to add and translate subtitles for your YouTube video in 10 minutes

Installing CasperJs - a journey of pain

Meteor and the 'Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token Y' error

New PluralSight Course: io.js ... (or is it?)

Make a command to count my files

50 quick ideas to improve your tests - a review

How to get Google Analytics to work for your Single Page Application

Supertest: Verify database after request

Supertest: Things I've learned - part I

Koa Js and the power of mounting

package.json: engines & engineStrict - and how to use them

CoffeeScript - what I've should have done

Get started writing NodeJs with CoffeeScript - not a piece of cake

Config handling in Node and Heroku - with secrets

Review: Cucumber for Java

Koa and the 'ReferenceError: Promise is not defined.'

Ferguson never touched the ball

50 Quick Ideas on User stories

Evaluating my presentations... and pricing them?

My post scaffolder for Jekyll

Showing part of Excel trend line in other diagram

A good person and a bad system - my take

How I prepare and create presentations

Communication debts and Brazilian office mornings

It's just an experiment - experiments in practice

The time I found myself wanting stuff waiting...

The humble blogger approach - some practical tips

Effective revisted

Vision statements - why not say what you REALLY mean?

cc all the things

Todo: Add tests ...

The only easy day was yesterday - this is a message of hope

My second book is out ... kinda

Ugly clothing, symbols and values

How to make a empty diagram in Excel

If you build it - things will improve; turning visualisations to knowledge

Ask a simpler question: real data speaks louder

KoaJs: Making the make file test, push and all that

Screencast: What is yield and generators?

Screencast: Installing Koa Js - a tutorial through failures

Screencast on Getting started with Koa Js

“Waiting” should be a note and not a column

Repost: #Beyond Callbacks or How Koa helps me Code Better

MongoDb and the "10309 Unable to create/open lock file" on Ubuntu

Marcus Node Bits: Basic Authentication with Koa

Marcus Node Bits: Deploying to Heroku (and MongoHq)

Marcus Node Bits: Let's flex Koa Js, shall we?

Marcus Node Bit: Let's talk about yield and generators, shall we?

Marcus Node bits: Let's talk about Koa for a while, shall we?

Setting up a complete Node development machine. From scratch. For free

Javascript callbacks: can't live with them can't live without them... or can you?

Marcus Node Bits: Ok then, Moogose is pretty sweet

Impact Mapping - now helping Indonesian Hospitals

Marcus Node Bits: supertest is a nice way to test an api

Marcus Node Bits: Express is best without generators

Marcus Node Bits: monk is an easy way to access MongoDb

Marcus Node Bits: Should is a nice way to do asserts

Marcus Node Bits: mocha is cool both as framework and test runner

Marcus Node Bits: Callback function is cool stuff, and I even know how to write them

Marcus Node Bits: Git is not that hard, but I need to refresh my knowledge

Marcus Node Bits: Package.json is a mighty tool

Marcus Node Bits: npm is not only for getting packages

Marcus Node Bits: Writing stuff down is great to remember it

Repost: Do we dare to be data-driven

Share your internet connection via WiFi on Windows 8.1

Nancy Fx - now you can read her too!

Repost: Weighted index – a simple, powerful prioritization tool

A session on Open source software at Microsoft

Move files at regular intervals on OSX

Repost: Some tools for improved focus, improve teamwork and faster delivery

Repost: Mob programming – full team, full throttle

Setting up a new development machine without pressing Next a single time, using Chocolately

Export all images from a Word (.doc) document ... and rename them

Lean UX with effect map - from HeltSonika

Impact mapping - you are not WHO

Context injection of driver object in SpecFlow

Get MongoDB running on AppHarbour - it's an AppSetting thing

AppHarbor, Nancy and the Could not load file or assembly 'Nancy.ViewEngines.Razor.BuildProviders' error

Suggested visualization for the SÖS Children Emergency

The "I'm not allowed to do columns like that"-problem

Nancy.Testing - executable specifications through the full stack, in memory

Nancy.Testing - no hat, no shoes with Simple.Data

Nancy.Testing - testing (razor) views

Nancy.Testing - test-dialogues with Requests and Response

Pickles - generate SpecFlow documentation from MsBuild and PowerShell

Nancy.Testing - configure her boot...strapper

Nancy.Testing - a closer look through her testability

Impact Mapping - great book, great tool

Specification by example and Model based testing

You say 'continuous delivery', I say 'limit WIP'

Great Visual Studio integration - another of the many reasons to upgrade to SpecFlow 1.9

Find the control–a way to stabilize UI automation… a bit

Applying the Switch framework to developers don’t want to write tests–part III

Log4Net, RollingFile named by Date and the staticLogFileName setting

Creating a tools only NuGet package

SpecFlow.Assist.Dynamic–maxing out with Simple.Data

SpecFlow.Assist.Dynamic–how to use it

SpecFlow.Assist.Dynamic–what is it?

Simple.Data–the testing story

Twitter for beginners

The dynamic keyword, ExpandoObject–a short intro for me

Creating a local NuGet repository with dependencies bundles

My mouse pointer disappeared in Visual Studio when using a dark theme

KanbanBoards VI–OpenId Integration

Uninstall package with NuGet–and remove dependencies

Specification by example with SpecLog–some initial thoughts

Using Unity as dependency resolver in ASP.NET MVC 3

How to apply a pull request on GitHub with TortoiseGit

Developing in .Net–a new era has begun

Know where you step–generate a step definition report with SpecFlow

SpecFlow.exe and MsTest

Should & Substitute–two new great friends

Supported Step Exporter – watch your language

Virtual PC performance tip: Multi-core support

Using BDD with SpecFlow, WPF and White

Resovling policy enabled objects with Unity 2.0

Calling SOAPUi Testscript from MSBuild

Changing endpoint from the command line when testing services with SOAPUi

Nice, easy and working description on how to compact a Virtual PC Image

SOAPUi and testing WCF Services – how I made it work

Great Git-reference for non-commandliners

SOAPUi and others – regression testing services

Resolving with Unity and Policy Injection using extension methods

System.BadImageFormatException: Could not load file or assembly 'System.Data.SQLite'

PowerCommands for Visual Studio 2008

Synchronization for consultants – it works!

AutoMapper – get rid of your tedious mapping code

SpecFlow: BDD .NET-style

NUnit and the constraint based model

Inbox zero

Great tool for creating snippets

Learning JQuery with Firebug

Online diff tool

DataSource in Oracle Connectionstrings

Moving items between listboxes with JQuery

Integrationtests for ASP.NET MVC applications

Testing ASP.NET MVC application with Session state

When is good – decide already!

Marcus trying JQuery

ÖreDev day #5 – keynote and morning

Private source control repository with integration in Visual Studio for free

How to press F9-F12 in a Parallels Desktop Windows Image

DDD and Naked Objects

AspxPivotGrid – a mighty web control

DropBox – your drive in the cloud

Import Outlook contacts to Mac Address Book – for free

Getting to the root of all things bad

Add coolness to your presentations

Synchronization for consultants – how I got it to work

Powerpoint online – 280 slides

Pastie – your online clipboard

Dos-script to delete all Visual Studio Intermediate files

Test NHibnernate mappings with Fluent NHibnernate

Object-oriented database – worth a try

Pomodoro – being agile and focused on the individual level

Booting from a VHD in Windows 7

Windows Azure

Convert any file-format into PDF

Ruby on Rails – supercool demo

MOQ and the “Test Run deployment issue: The location of the file or directory” problem

ASP.NET MVC – completing the NerdDinner example

ASP.NET MVC – The Nerd Dinner example

Loads of ASP.NET MVC tips

Simple but useful generic repository pattern

RefCardz - great first stop

MSBuild sidekicks

Oracle, ODP.NET, RefCursors, Enterprise Library and Readers

Associative arrays - and how to use them... wisely

ODP.NET - ArrayBindSize and Size for PLSQLAssociativeArrays

IPhone flute - waiting for euphonium

Aspects and policy injection - clean up your code

Automation of integration tests

Oracle, ODP.NET, TFS Build and running tests under service account

You have to manually tell RockBox to charge via USB

Using LINQ for the first time, for real

How to pass and receive associative arrays with ODP.NET

Run Explorer as another account

Enterprise Library, OracleTypes and their mapping

Connectionstring.com - great resource

Who called me?

ScrumIndexCardCreator - my first CodePlex project

Cool WCF-utilis

I like: PowerCommands for Visual Studio 2008

Sweden in 3D

Creating link to TFS Reports in build script

Run as for MSI-files

Getting dates automatic in Notepad

Marcus likes... Clipboard.NET

ReSharper and the messed up Intellisense

Process Explorer - a good tool

Publish TFS testresult as HTML

WebCam Server

WebService studio - tools for testing webservices

All 2 Mp3

Planning poker online

Great tool(s) for VB.Net - Find dead code

TFS Build watcher - finally

Sandcastle - revisted

NDoc is dead - long live Sandcastle?

TeamBuild 2008

New (better?) refactoring support for VB.NET

Facebook - explosion

GUICE - a google framework

Refactoring

Find missing VB.NET documentation

Count your lines! Count them one by one

TDD - how is it done?

Spring.NET

Design patterns

Finally - Gaming for non-math-freaks!

Clean Query analyser stuff with Notepad

Excel - my favorite code generator

I like

NUnit testing asynchronous events

Get more use from NCover

.NET

Writing a Selenium test using .NET core and Visual Studio Code

Nancy Fx - now you can read her too!

A session on Open source software at Microsoft

Setting up a new development machine without pressing Next a single time, using Chocolately

Are you coding for change or stability - the followup post

Context injection of driver object in SpecFlow

Get MongoDB running on AppHarbour - it's an AppSetting thing

AppHarbor, Nancy and the Could not load file or assembly 'Nancy.ViewEngines.Razor.BuildProviders' error

Nancy.Testing - executable specifications through the full stack, in memory

Nancy.Testing - no hat, no shoes with Simple.Data

Nancy.Testing - testing (razor) views

Nancy.Testing - test-dialogues with Requests and Response

Nancy.Testing - configure her boot...strapper

Nancy.Testing - a closer look through her testability

TDD for kids

Getting Visual Studio 2012 Test Explorer to work with NUnit,xUnit and SpecFlow

Great Visual Studio integration - another of the many reasons to upgrade to SpecFlow 1.9

System.InvalidOperationException: No automation provider available MsTest and FluentAutomation

Find the control–a way to stabilize UI automation… a bit

SpecFlow, page objects and FluentAutomation

Applying the Switch framework to developers don’t want to write tests–part II

Log4Net, RollingFile named by Date and the staticLogFileName setting

Creating a tools only NuGet package

OreDev 2011 - day 3

OreDev 2011 - day 2

OreDev 2011 - day 1

SpecFlow.Assist.Dynamic–maxing out with Simple.Data

SpecFlow.Assist.Dynamic–how to use it

SpecFlow.Assist.Dynamic–what is it?

Simple.Data–the testing story

Executable specification - the whole stack or not

The dynamic keyword, ExpandoObject–a short intro for me

Creating a local NuGet repository with dependencies bundles

BDD on .NET Framework and where I learned about it

Clean up your steps–use page objects in SpecFlow step definitions

Two types in SpecFlow; ScenarioContext and FeatureContext

KanbanBoards VI–OpenId Integration

Uninstall package with NuGet–and remove dependencies

SpecFlow presentation at Sweden Progressive .NET

Error “The provider did not return a ProviderManifestToken string” with SQL Compact Edition

In SpecFlow–a test runner is just glue

Kanbanboards V–creating new boards

Customize your SpecFlow templates and more

Kanbanboards IV–shaping stuff up

CQRS–another love story

Using Unity as dependency resolver in ASP.NET MVC 3

How to apply a pull request on GitHub with TortoiseGit

Kanbanboards III–putting on the web

TDD and Scaffolding

KanbanBoards part II–two step forward and one back

Developing in .Net–a new era has begun

Know where you step–generate a step definition report with SpecFlow

App.config for SpecFlow using MsTest

Group coding–a knowledge sharing tool

Should & Substitute–two new great friends

No more bugs – a thought experiment

Different appSetttings for each developer in the team - part II

How to use different app.config for each developer

A story on doing outside-in development with SpecFlow

WhiteStepHelper – a small step toward smaller steps

Using BDD with SpecFlow, WPF and White

Resovling policy enabled objects with Unity 2.0

Using ATDD in conversion project

WCF, MVVM and good client design

Calling SOAPUi Testscript from MSBuild

Changing endpoint from the command line when testing services with SOAPUi

Testing with Unity, Policy injection and solving “Ambiguous match found. (Strategy type Instance Interception Strategy” problem

SOAPUi and MSBuild

SOAPUi and testing WCF Services – how I made it work

Vb.net considered harmful

Great Git-reference for non-commandliners

Resolving with Unity and Policy Injection using extension methods

‘urn:nhibernate-mapping-2.2' has invalid child element 'property' and Fluent NHibnerate

System.BadImageFormatException: Could not load file or assembly 'System.Data.SQLite'

PowerCommands for Visual Studio 2008

AutoMapper – get rid of your tedious mapping code

SpecFlow: BDD .NET-style

ASP.NET MVC, StructureMap and … TDD?

Visual Studio 2010 web.config transformation

NUnit and the constraint based model

Branching Guide for Team Foundation Server 2010

Visual Studio 2010 Quick Reference

TDD and legacy code

Trying Coding Dojo, Kata and Extreme OOP

Great tool for creating snippets

Deploying ASP.NET MVC on IIS6

Skillsmatter – so much to watch, so little time

Learning JQuery with Firebug

Scott Guthrie in Stockholm

Online diff tool

Moving items between listboxes with JQuery

Integrationtests for ASP.NET MVC applications

Testing ASP.NET MVC application with Session state

Marcus trying JQuery

ÖreDev day #5 – afternoon

ÖreDev day #5 – keynote and morning

ÖreDev day #4 – afternoon

ÖreDev day #4 – Why your agile adoption fails, with Dan North

ÖreDev day #4 – morning

ÖreDev day #3 – afternoon

ÖreDev day #2 – NHibernate in practice

Private source control repository with integration in Visual Studio for free

DDD and Naked Objects

AspxPivotGrid – a mighty web control

Short and sweet introduction to Dependency Injection

AutoMapping with FluentNHibernate

Fluent NHibnerate CheckReference throws Expected ‘X’ but got ‘XProxy’

Get rid of your xml – go Fluent NHibernate

First stop for learning events, delegates and anonymous methods

Object-oriented database – worth a try

I'm back working

Parental leave reading

Windows Azure

MOQ and the “Test Run deployment issue: The location of the file or directory” problem

What to do now - Sprint Planner Helper Initialization

Clean code - the pragmatic approach

NMock2 RemotingException ByRef value type parameter cannot be null

How to read other exe's config

Custom tool warning: cannot import wsdl:portType

Compress a string with zip

AddressFilter mismatch at the EndpointDispatcher

Oracle, ODP.NET, RefCursors, Enterprise Library and Readers

Associative arrays - and how to use them... wisely

ODP.NET - ArrayBindSize and Size for PLSQLAssociativeArrays

Oracle, ODP.NET, TFS Build and running tests under service account

WCF Self-hosting and configuration

PostSharp - a new aspect on coding

How to pass and receive associative arrays with ODP.NET

Enterprise Library, OracleTypes and their mapping

WCF, WSDL and differences from web services

WCF Data Contract Versioning

Oracle and .NET - start here

OOP hardcore principles

Managing dynamic controls in an ASP.NET page

WCF - wsdl configurations explained

WCF, WSDL and tempuri.org

Transactions in stored procedures with transaction scope

Error message "Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Enterprise.ASPNetHelper" when deploying

Design patterns

WebService studio - tools for testing webservices

TypeMock - an introduction

ASP.NET MVC - start

Oh my god - new stuff rolling in

LINQ is a wonderful thing

Creating a dynamical AutoComplete textbox

How do i - great instruction resource

What every .net-programmer should know

Unable to emit assembly: Referenced assembly does not have a strong name

Good introduction to instrumentation

Bullet Hell Tactics - .NET Awards

Visual Studio 2008 videos

Visual Studio 2008

Refactoring

Sandcastle or Marcus betting on the wrong horse?

Get current user name and with VB.NET

Nerding away...

System.Transaction and maxTimeout

VB.NET - not that bad

TDD - how is it done? Vol 2

TDD - how is it done?

Dependency Injection - explained

Spring.NET

VB.NET or C#

DLINQ - Hibernate with Microsoft flavor

Chasing bugs

NHibernate

Design patterns

MSBuild bug (kinda...)

Finally - Gaming for non-math-freaks!

Bug in Visual Studio 2005

Edit web.config in nice GUI

Credentials passing in SOA-solutions for .NET

Good information concering double hop

Free courses from Microsoft

More about generic webservces

Generic webservice creator using generics and delegates

Well structured projects in Visual Studio 2005

Use command line option '/keyfile' or appropriate project settings instead of 'AssemblyKeyFile'

Performance in ASP.NET apps

'myCssProp' is not a known CSS property name

NUnit testing asynchronous events

Get more use from NCover

Euphonium

Gods care through the Band Tune Book

My light and song

Multi-gifted - Glyn Williams

First stop for euphonist on the web

Presentations

Recording of Priority - DONE!

Recording session II

Great new euphonium work

New euphonium sales site

Recommended listening

Tuba Circus - don't try this at home kids

Hospital caroling

Back from the road

Applause

New Besson Euphonium

Life of a consultant

A data-driven prognosis report

Writing a Selenium test using .NET core and Visual Studio Code

When I learned a safety lesson - and did a little bit better

Some questions about estimation and plannning

Role Models - Lars Littorin - the senior consultant

Role models - Christian the developer

Role models - Staffan the consultant

Bash scripting to check the status of 100 repositories

How do I kanbanize my 300 items backlog - a response

getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory

How do you get so much done?

Scraping with Google Sheets for fun and profit

Summarizing data over several Google Sheets - an exercise in stats and formulas

Metrics on 'well-defined' projects - and what I learned about uncertainty

Why the retrospective prime directive is paramount

Talking about what really matters to us - what I learned from a spiritual day

Prioritizing and sequencing are not the same things

When was Lars happy?

3 mindset shifts for agile transformations

How we agile - principle-led & context-dependent

Autonomous does not mean isolated

Reflection on a daily retrospectives

The Kondo software quality index

Scaling agile - up or out

Principles and practices, guilds and cross-functional teams

Tags, markers and behaviour it drives on the board

The things I (we) worry about in vain

Make a copy of GitHub repo - the script way

Bash script to add file(s) to all repositories in an organisation

Reflections after Agile Greece

Some reflections after a few days as a musician

What I learned when installing 33 developer computers in 5 hours

Integrate JIRA search results in Google Sheets for fun and profit

Keeping copies of charts from Google Sheets updated automatically

Priority 0 - we meet again

A simple diagram and some conversations on flow efficiency

My top 10 books

Futurespective - put the past in front of you

Review - The art of coaching

Values and living them

Summarizing and filtering data with QUERY and a Google Sheet drop-down

Create a dynamically updated chart in Google Sheets

Lean/flow simulation experiments

My first all-remote retrospective

Don't skip hack days - that silly habit is what you are

No - waterfall is not sometimes correct. It is always wrong

Report writing - using impact maps, Stephen Covey and increments

The kanban blessing

Two stories I often tell on WIP as a process improvement tool

My obsession with teams

What I learned coaching a car dealership on stage

Teams are immutable structures

Deploy and release

Values to guide us

From push to pull - the essence of kanban

Writing a script to extract pictures from Word documents

Get a good start - start your days mid-day

Respecting your vacation - how I ended up with 0 emails in my inbox after 4 weeks vacation

Coaching when help is not wanted or important

Impacts or backlogs

The nervous stats checker oscillating syndrome

CodeBetter.com posts reposted

Repost: The time when we did Lean backwards

An idea for visualising scope creep

Some roles I take on - and what they are

A decade of blogging...

Who is this important for?

Big room planning - a workaround that can be useful

Move the information to the authority considered harmful

It's all perspective - why haven't I seen that before?

Lead like you lead volunteers

Thank you Rob

Backlog and features

Jidoka - an old Toyota practice makes an guest appearance

A scary thought experiment

Solving the underpants gnomes pitfall

Some thoughts after Lean Kanban North America 2016

Requirements are not problem/opportunity descriptions

Developer failure

Our fear of forgetting important things

Flow manager - is that me?

Frequent releases and no urge to finish

What are you optimized for then?

We don't know what will work - a story from last week

Electronic process management tools - proceed with care

S, M, L estimate should not start with a date span

The hidden agenda of agile....

An exercise from 5 dysfunctions of a team

What is important, really?

... what does that say about me

Indonesia, Agile, Kanban, Lean - its a new book

What if only small works?

Prioritization - some thoughts and tools

Book review: 50 quick ideas to improve your retrospectives

Barrier troops

Speed up Jekyll site regeneration

Using the scientific method on our board

Making dynamic chart in Excel

The metric / visualization pirate 'rules'

How trust, kanban and a little structure changed a life today

Changes - reasons or the opposite

The forced swing in my garden... and coaching

The Lars-principle

Review: Nature by Ron Jeffries

Indicators; leading, trailing - short or long

What can you do for us then?

Experiment - don't change

The 1000th post

Wash your hands - make your hands clean

Progress indicators, estimates and plans

ca 10 minutes on effective meetings

Creating a 'Movie credits' animation in Keynote

ca 10 minutes on Root Cause Analysis

QA: How big is a work item?

Getting Elixir to run on my OsX (init terminating in do_boot)

Only help those that want help

ca 15 minutes on Kanban

ca 15 minutes on Impact mapping

ca 15 minutes on strategic plans

ca 10 minutes on Vision statements

ca 10 minutes on Mission statements

New series: Marcus on mission, vision and strategy... and doing it

McDonalds - a tool to explain flow

How to add and translate subtitles for your YouTube video in 10 minutes

It's just context - a story about my ignorance

YOW West 2015 - some thoughts

No #No - more #Less

Meta is not the most important thing

Waste and why I rather talk about something else

How to get Google Analytics to work for your Single Page Application

Stuff I said coaching

Order points, value, flow and waste

Why don't they change: What would make me behave like that?

Saying thank you for agile manifesto

Open letter: Management tips to Dr Lillian

A world without WHY

What if money was not an issue?

All the great teams

How far have we come?

Things I say often: I don't care about efficiency

Things I say often: I'm into leadership - not management

Make it smaller - some practical experiences

Things I say often: Improving means changing

Things I say often: Why?

New series: 'Things I say often'

Best advice for me this year

What is The Goal?

Evaluating my presentations... and pricing them?

How would you measure that?

What I've learned from 'How to measure anything'

Data you can't do anything about - what's the use?

Always ask kenapa

Showing part of Excel trend line in other diagram

Inspections welcome

A good person and a bad system - my take

How I prepare and create presentations

Communication debts and Brazilian office mornings

It's just an experiment - experiments in practice

The "Don't fear audits and the news"-business methodology - with certification

The time I found myself wanting stuff waiting...

The humble blogger approach - some practical tips

Embrace uncertainty - the family version

Effective revisted

Vision statements - why not say what you REALLY mean?

cc all the things

Some thoughts about waste and waste reduction

The only easy day was yesterday - this is a message of hope

My second book is out ... kinda

Ugly clothing, symbols and values

How to make a empty diagram in Excel

...and then it moved - the greatest feeling in the world!

Why so sad? Can we point to improvements without making people feel bad?

If you build it - things will improve; turning visualisations to knowledge

Ask a simpler question: real data speaks louder

Accountability, authority, trust, and all those things

Luck has nothing to do with it

What I've should done - my Jerk-store moment

Coaching exercise - building Lego

Simple = Good. Complex = Bad. But what does it mean?

Delegation and my jedi mind trick

Move the authority to the information, and not the other way around

The “talk about later”-list

You control the disappointment dial - use it!

Waiting is bad for you… and it’s worse than you think

Screencast on Getting started with Koa Js

“Waiting” should be a note and not a column

MongoDb and the "10309 Unable to create/open lock file" on Ubuntu

Do something together - what Indonesians taught me, part I

Looking for better

No... this is how I think

Aligning our sights - what Indonesians taught me, part I

"Do you think Kanban can help us?"

Marcus Node Bits: Doing stuff in the terminal is not scary at all

Repost: Do we dare to be data-driven

Share your internet connection via WiFi on Windows 8.1

Nancy Fx - now you can read her too!

I'm telling you for the last time - Marcus style

What I'm talking about: No - I don't mean work faster

What I'm talking about: Yes - I'm talking about changing

Communication and rotting specifications

Repost: Weighted index – a simple, powerful prioritization tool

Commitment can only emerge - it can't be demanded

What My Fair Lady can teach us about communication

Move files at regular intervals on OSX

CodeBetter - a new home for part of me

Repost: Some tools for improved focus, improve teamwork and faster delivery

Export all images from a Word (.doc) document ... and rename them

What if ... mob programming?

Let's do something instead!

Part time coaching - some practices that helped me

Are you coding for change or for stability?

Limit WIP doesn't mean doing less

Daily Sync for five teams - and get something out of it

"Between the chairs" some thoughts on backlogs and things outside them

Suggested visualization for the SÖS Children Emergency

The "I'm not allowed to do columns like that"-problem

www.marcusoft.net - 800 posts and counting

How to run a LeanCoffee discussion

Team marketplace - how we splitted a big 40 person team into 5 small in 2 hours

On constraints

Have presentations - will travel

Hello Aptitud!

Good bye Avega!

Autonomy in action - school kids

Impact Mapping - great book, great tool

Unearned trust

TDD for kids

Top 5 Agile change tips #5 - Used visualized data to improve

Top 5 Agile change tips #4 - Support the initiative

Top 5 Agile change tips #3 - Let them change how they work

Top 5 Agile change tips #2 - Sit together

Top 5 Agile change tips #1 - Get a great or-else-reason

Improving presence of a remote worker in our team

Applying Switch framework to: Meetings are not real work - part III

Applying Switch framework to: Meetings are not real work - part II

Applying Switch framework to: Meetings are not real work

Simple where-do-we-spend-our-time visualisation

Working to the Cake-limit

Experience report from rolling out agile in a big (120+ ppl) organization

What BDD is all about

System.InvalidOperationException: No automation provider available MsTest and FluentAutomation

Ask simpler questions–agile for non-techies III

SpecFlow, page objects and FluentAutomation

Deploying often is better–agile for non-techies II

Fixed price is bad for you - agile for non-techies part I

Applying the Switch framework to developers don’t want to write tests–part III

Applying the Switch framework to developers don’t want to write tests

It’s a cultural thing

I’m writing a book on Kanban!

How I do sprint planning

Some thoughts on KPI’s in agile organizations

Some common Kanban questions–my suggestions

“If you quit today”–make someone happy

Applying the Switch framework to broken builds

Log4Net, RollingFile named by Date and the staticLogFileName setting

Kanban-inzg the Avega Group Office–reflections

Kanban-inizing the Avega Group office–getting the show on the road

Kanban-inizing the Avega Group office–setting the stage

Twitter for beginners

My mouse pointer disappeared in Visual Studio when using a dark theme

Clean up your steps–use page objects in SpecFlow step definitions

Uninstall package with NuGet–and remove dependencies

SpecFlow presentation at Sweden Progressive .NET

How to apply a pull request on GitHub with TortoiseGit

The power of Visualization used in my current project

SpecFlow.exe and MsTest

Group coding–a knowledge sharing tool

The emperor is naked–don’t ask me to estimate!

No more bugs – a thought experiment

Different appSetttings for each developer in the team - part II

How to use different app.config for each developer

Supported Step Exporter – watch your language

Virtual PC performance tip: Multi-core support

A story on specification by example in two projects

Solution to closing the lid of my MacBook cause it to get VERY hot

TF203007: Cannot create the label because the version controlled item […] already exists or has been specified more than once

Using ATDD in conversion project

WCF, MVVM and good client design

Configure WCF in IIS for anonymous access

Specification by example – the missing link?

Changing endpoint from the command line when testing services with SOAPUi

Testing with Unity, Policy injection and solving “Ambiguous match found. (Strategy type Instance Interception Strategy” problem

Short and sweet introduction to RESTful services

Nice, easy and working description on how to compact a Virtual PC Image

BDD with SpecFlow – some thoughts after a workshop at Elevate

Great Git-reference for non-commandliners

SOAPUi and others – regression testing services

Synchronization for consultants – it works!

AutoMapper – get rid of your tedious mapping code

Inbox zero

TDD and legacy code

Deploying ASP.NET MVC on IIS6

Red Beads and Limited WIP Society

Skillsmatter – so much to watch, so little time

Online diff tool

The value of an ubiquitous language

DataSource in Oracle Connectionstrings

Moving items between listboxes with JQuery

Agile testing – some thoughts after an excellent Elevate-evening

When is good – decide already!

Marcus trying JQuery

ÖreDev day #3 – morning sessions

ÖreDev Day #1 - Accomplishing more by doing less

Agile Coaching stuff

Private source control repository with integration in Visual Studio for free

How to press F9-F12 in a Parallels Desktop Windows Image

Sharp Architecture presentations

Delete-key in Parallels Desktop

AspxPivotGrid – a mighty web control

DropBox – your drive in the cloud

Marcus and Mac: my clumsy fingers

Import Outlook contacts to Mac Address Book – for free

Getting to the root of all things bad

Kanban – a great agile tool

Synchronization for consultants – how I got it to work

Visit of Ivar Jacobson

Powerpoint online – 280 slides

Reference work #3 – TDD by example

Pair programming benefits and arguments

Marcus doing new stuff

Pastie – your online clipboard

Dos-script to delete all Visual Studio Intermediate files

Pomodoro – being agile and focused on the individual level

Some great SOA – articles

Booting from a VHD in Windows 7

I'm back working

Parental leave reading

Windows Azure

Debating a hero

Årets höjdare 2009

MOQ and the “Test Run deployment issue: The location of the file or directory” problem

ASP.NET MVC – Running transformation error

Sync Issues – my contact are back

Avega – top of the game!

Why DDD rocks – the marcusoft.net version

Get Vista to go faster

Clean code - the pragmatic approach

Last day - new chapter

Create textfile on the fly in build scripts

RefCardz - great first stop

Update AppSettings with XmlUpdate in build scripts

Custom tool warning: cannot import wsdl:portType

WCF with handcrafted WSDL generated no FaultExceptions

2008 - another great year

About this blog

Compress a string with zip

AddressFilter mismatch at the EndpointDispatcher

Leave my WiFi-card alone! Please!

The blog in stereo

Aspects - I love it!

Run as...

Calling Sandcastle with response file

Agile testing - how we get it to work

Missing references showing nicely with ReSharper

Regular Expression for even number

Marcus - now in full color video...

Automation of integration tests

PostSharp - a new aspect on coding

Sleepless in Stockholm

Converting Class library project to MS Test project

Run Explorer as another account

Enterprise Library, OracleTypes and their mapping

Result of modelling

ScrumIndexCardCreator - my first CodePlex project

New model job

Over soon

Vista - running programs with an elevated command prompt

Oracle and .NET - start here

Process Explorer - a good tool

Presentations

OOP hardcore principles

Sprint demo again...

Way out book on Ruby

Avega - I like it!

How to get equivalent proxy-classes to implement a shared interface

Great Silverlight 2.0 Tutorial

Design patterns II

Sprint demo, cold and speed

What is SOA? What is SOAP-RPC?

Design patterns

Sprint 1 - demo-time!

WebCam Server

Great project started

Doing SCRUM in TFS

Could not find file 'Microsoft.Windows.CommonLanguageRuntime error for testprojects

Rhetorics - a good start

ASP.NET MVC - start

WebDesign - a great introduction

True stuff doesn't need to be boring - The Tao of programming

2007 - coming to an end

Marcus list of how to get problem in a system developement project

Asp.Net 2.0 Profile in Web Application Projects

Resharper! For VB.NET?

Not much

Last sprint-demo of the project

Teamplain rocks

Slow and fast

Declaring arrays in VB.NET

What every .net-programmer should know

SCRUM vs RUP - practical comparison

New shiny Avega-website

TFS Build watcher - finally

Scrum - bringing fun back to development

Demo done - and training in the pipe

Good introduction to instrumentation

Demo-time - sprint 5

Intensive pair-programming - comparing entity data

Marcus - the model

Marcus - the model?

Free web templates

Visual Studio 2008

Langauge differences C# and VB.Net

GUICE - a google framework

Nerding away...

New language

Demo done - SCRUM rocks!

Demo-time!

VSTS bug... or is it?

Home again - now with pictures

System.Transaction and maxTimeout

TDD - good introduction

We'll meet again...

Scary stuff #1 - taken down

New assignment

Hectict times

Dependency Injection - explained

Spring.NET

Loud personal details

VB.NET or C#

USB-mice eating - maybe

SCRUM - an nice overview

Visual Studio tips and tricks

Free books and presentations on Agile stuff

Great article - humble Marcus

Chasing bugs

Design patterns

Lots of things to do

Hectict week to an end

Edit web.config in nice GUI

Scrum - my first encounter

Good information concering double hop

Happy - and still going

Happy week - so far so good

Be good!

Alone in the office

Outlook

Clean Query analyser stuff with Notepad

Excel - my favorite code generator

No phoneeating today

Eating my mobile... and a Nanbread

Visual Studio

Setting up a new development machine without pressing Next a single time, using Chocolately

Getting Visual Studio 2012 Test Explorer to work with NUnit,xUnit and SpecFlow

My mouse pointer disappeared in Visual Studio when using a dark theme

Different appSetttings for each developer in the team - part II

Solution to the "Could not find file 'Microsoft.Windows.CommonLanguageRuntime error" for testprojects

Could not find file 'Microsoft.Windows.CommonLanguageRuntime error for testprojects

Moving items in a CheckedListBox

Convert C# to VB.NET and back again

Displaying XML in WebBrowser control

TFS Widget

Creating a dynamical AutoComplete textbox

Resharper! For VB.NET? - Revisited

Asp.Net 2.0 Profile in Web Application Projects

Resharper! For VB.NET?

Great tool(s) for VB.Net - Find dead code

A lot of Team System

TFS useful links

Unable to emit assembly: Referenced assembly does not have a strong name

New (better?) refactoring support for VB.NET

Visual Studio 2008

Sandcastle or Marcus betting on the wrong horse?

Refactoring support for VB.NET

AddIn - problem and solutions

Find missing VB.NET documentation

Count your lines! Count them one by one

VB.NET - warnings for XML documentation, denied

VB.NET showing build configuration

Bad Request/Underlying connection was closed problem solved

Battle of the TFS build script

Load-event of UserControls in design mode

Long running debug-sessions in Visual Studio 2005

VSTS bug... or is it?

Chose your battles

Including namespaces in new VB.NET classes

VB.NET - not that bad

VB.NET or C#

Visual Studio tips and tricks

Free books and presentations on Agile stuff

MSBuild bug (kinda...)

Bug in Visual Studio 2005

Toggle regions in Visual Studio 2005

More about generic webservces

Generic webservice creator using generics and delegates

Well structured projects in Visual Studio 2005

Use command line option '/keyfile' or appropriate project settings instead of 'AssemblyKeyFile'

'myCssProp' is not a known CSS property name

BrassBand

Aligning our sights - what Indonesians taught me, part I

Saturday of brass band, presenting and fun

Music and photos from Vasa Band

Vasa Band does it again

Vasa Band and Saturday night success

What I am watching

Hard to get started, Salvation Army and brass banding

My light and song

In control IV – Håkan Björkman

Norwegian Championships – the aftermath

Norwegian Brass Band Championships – live

2008 - another great year

Christmas times - hectic times

Swedish Brass Band Championships 2008 - the aftermath

Swedish Brass Band Championships 2008

VasaBand - full speed ahead

In control III - trombonists

Multi-gifted - Glyn Williams

Brass band videos, anyone?

Weekend over - let's rest

Commenting the Stockholm Marathon

Presentations

2008 European Championships - the results

2008 European Championships - my predictions

Sweet brass bander

More Black Dyke live video

Black Dyke Live Concert

New York Staff Band and Enfield together

Recording of Priority - DONE!

Recording session II

Recording with the Vasa Band

Weekend report - part 2

Weekend report - part 1

4BarsRest - review of 'In perfect peace'

Håkan Björkman

Stockholm Brass Band

Marcus - published!

New euphonium sales site

Swedish brass band championships 2007 - follow-up

David Childs and the Hot Canary

Swedish brass band championships 2007

In perfect peace

Hairs standing up!

Listen, just listen to the band

British Open - the results

British Open Brass Band Championships

Black Dyke overture

Morning devotional - by friend of mine

Salvation Army banding in Stockholm

Tenor horn - Owen Farr

Recommended listening

Whit friday and Black Dyke

Göteborg brass band aftermath

European sounds

Melbourne Staff Band

End of an era

European - in retrospect

Brass band European Championships 2007

Scary stuff - all of the list

Bengt Eklund

Brassband radio

Weekend to an end

James Watson

Brass band festival on radio

Eikanger concert on radio

Hendon band

Mecka for brass bandits

Tuba Circus - don't try this at home kids

Marcus - the presenter

YBS - alive and kicking?

Weird stuff on the agenda

Weekend with the Band

Christmas concert

Busy times - our choice?

VasaBand - on the roll

Weekend impressions

Happy all the day

Listen to the band

CD from Eikanger-Bjørsvik

Results from Swedish Championships

Mnozil Brass

Swedish brass band championships - revisited

Grimethorpe performance in full

Swedish brass band championships

British Nationals, Brass band

Back from the road

Applause

Salvation Army

Here people are saying kind things about each others

The Brickell Key Award - I am nominated!

ca 10 minutes on effective meetings

ca 10 minutes on Root Cause Analysis

ca 15 minutes on Kanban

ca 15 minutes on Impact mapping

ca 15 minutes on strategic plans

ca 10 minutes on Vision statements

ca 10 minutes on Mission statements

New series: Marcus on mission, vision and strategy... and doing it

How to add and translate subtitles for your YouTube video in 10 minutes

It's just context - a story about my ignorance

Why don't they change: what if I could just snap my fingers?

Open letter: Management tips to Dr Lillian

Make it smaller - some practical experiences

Communication debts and Brazilian office mornings

It's just an experiment - experiments in practice

Gods care through the Band Tune Book

The time I found myself wanting stuff waiting...

Effective revisted

Vision statements - why not say what you REALLY mean?

The only easy day was yesterday - this is a message of hope

Ugly clothing, symbols and values

If you build it - things will improve; turning visualisations to knowledge

Accountability, authority, trust, and all those things

Simple = Good. Complex = Bad. But what does it mean?

Move the authority to the information, and not the other way around

The “talk about later”-list

Waiting is bad for you… and it’s worse than you think

What I missed, longed for, happy to not have from fasting from social media

Do something together - what Indonesians taught me, part I

No... this is how I think

Aligning our sights - what Indonesians taught me, part I

Team Yayasan week 5: Redoing Todo

Team Yayasan week 4: Throughput and lead times

For the Indonesian War Cry: Achieve more by doing less

For the Indonesian War Cry: On Motivation

Team Yayasan week 2: Transparency, culture and lower WIP

Impact Mapping - now helping Indonesian Hospitals

Moving to Indonesia

It’s a cultural thing

“If you quit today”–make someone happy

Music and photos from Vasa Band

Vasa Band does it again

Vasa Band and Saturday night success

Vacation time and stress management

Hard to get started, Salvation Army and brass banding

Vasakåren - new website

Prayer works – Jesus hears them

Together in transformation – An agile Salvation Army

2008 - another great year

Christmas times - hectic times

VasaBand - full speed ahead

Retreat - creative silience

Weekend over - let's rest

Commenting the Stockholm Marathon

A night at the shelter

New York Staff Band and Enfield together

Recording of Priority - DONE!

Recording session II

Recording with the Vasa Band

2007 - coming to an end

Weekend report - part 1

Vasakåren Jul

VasaBand - my band!

VasaKårens Jul

Friends in need

Miriam - new media reverend of Sweden?

Morning devotional - by friend of mine

Marcus - the model?

Salvation Army banding in Stockholm

Dignity - gone!

Humanism

VasaGospel release

Melbourne Staff Band

Weekend to an end

Hendon band

Hectict week to an end

Salvo Audio - is this for real?

Futureforce of VasaCorps

Pictures from caroling in Old Town

Caroling done for this year, almost

Weird stuff on the agenda

Busy times - our choice?

VasaBand - on the roll

Weekend impressions

Happy all the day

VasaGospel

Brassband silly season

Fun

The MVC song

The Flight of the Concords

What I am watching

In Control V - Cactus Cuties

De Blob – get a joy-kick!

Japanese Toilet Training

In control IV – Håkan Björkman

Tuba Hero

IPhone flute - waiting for euphonium

I was first!

In control III - trombonists

Sweden in 3D

In Control II - Bobby McFerrin

Multi-gifted - Glyn Williams

Bus drivers on strike in Stockholm

Butchering Star Wars

Gifted elephant

Way out book on Ruby

Punk being nice

In control

Galenskaparna - hits from the past

Sweet brass bander

Patapon - refreshing new game

Behind the scenes on Microsoft

Keep you eyes open

Whose line is it anyway?

Greatest American Hero

Non-stop laugh...

Suprise of the day?

Bullet Hell Tactics - .NET Awards

Mor i skutan

Only in Japan

Get a life! Now!

Schlager treat

The french

Midiomi

Nerding away...

New language

Big ad

Oooh - thoose sweet zomibes (?)

Runway?

Chuck!

Directions

Pixar - again

Pixar - for the birds

Laugh of the day

Traffic in Russia

Gambling...

Linus on the line...

New, addictive and a bit provocative

Useful YouTube - ExpertVillage.com

You got talent?

Fling me away

The little home genealogist

Tuba Circus - don't try this at home kids

Chad Vader

The famous Noah and his camera

Surfs up

Keep all your limbs to yourself

UltraStar - free karaoke for your PC

Marcus like: Loke

Merry ... continuation

Elfing away

The definitive handling of phone salesmen

YouTube Greetings

The Marine biologist

SOA

Short and sweet introduction to RESTful services

The value of an ubiquitous language

Some great SOA – articles

Validating WCF-messages with WSDL

WCF, WSDL and differences from web services

Web Service Factory

Presentations

How to get equivalent proxy-classes to implement a shared interface

What is SOA? What is SOAP-RPC?

Naming service reference to get namespace-like behavior

Great project started

Credentials passing in SOA-solutions for .NET

Scrum

The consequences of prioritizing

Tags, markers and behaviour it drives on the board

KanbanStats VI: Queue length

KanbanStats V: Single numbers

KanbanStats IV: Where is time spent?

KanbanStats III: throughput

KanbanStats II: filter the process chart

KanbanStats: Simplify process stats - get started

A story about dentists... busy dentists

Board visualisation tips

Integrate JIRA search results in Google Sheets for fun and profit

Some thoughts on organizing a team of developers

Some thoughts on backlogs

Reading the Scrum Guide

Comments on common board practices - Walk the board from right to left

Comments on common board practices - Focus on the work - not the workers

Comments on common board practices - It’s not a kanban board if you don’t have a WIP limit

Comments on common board practices - Colours speaks volumes. Use colours wisely

Comments on common board practices - Done? There is no Done

Comments on common board practices - Todo/Doing/Done is not your process

Comments on common board practices - blocked should not be a column

The best product owner I ever met

Electronic process management tools - proceed with care

All the great teams

How we created the need for an emergency lane

Emergency lanes - some tips

Things I say often: NO! This is how you tear off a post-it

Things I say often: This is your board - change it

What I've should done - my Jerk-store moment

I'm telling you for the last time - Marcus style

Commitment can only emerge - it can't be demanded

Repost: Some tools for improved focus, improve teamwork and faster delivery

Working to the Cake-limit

Summer sprints - a time to learn

How I do sprint planning

Is Scrum a –ism that doesn’t work for real?

The power of Visualization used in my current project

Specification by example – the missing link?

Status of workitems – where to keep it

Kanban example by Henrik Kniberg

Task Board for Team System – finally!

DDD – the coin drops for Marcus

What to do now - Sprint Planner Helper Initialization

Great SCRUM-resources

Agile testing - how we get it to work

Full speed and free

Sprint demo again...

Sprint demo, cold and speed

Sprint 1 - demo-time!

WebCam Server

Conchango burndown chart is not working

TF 20017 - The area or iteration provided for field 'IterationPath' could not be found

Doing SCRUM in TFS

Not much

Last sprint-demo of the project

Slow and fast

Planning poker online

SCRUM vs RUP - practical comparison

Sprint demo

Scrum - bringing fun back to development

ScrumIndexCardCreator

Demo done - SCRUM rocks!

Demo-time!

Scary stuff #1 - taken down

Hectict times

SCRUM - an nice overview

Scrum - my first encounter

Agile

A data-driven prognosis report

Some thoughts on scaled agile

Some questions about estimation and plannning

Building teams - where our training starts

Remote work, transparency, and feedback

Experience report: first week of 2 x 5 mobs going remote

How do I kanbanize my 300 items backlog - a response

How we start with trust and vulnerable in our developer training

Applied learning - things noticed

How do you get so much done?

Metrics on 'well-defined' projects - and what I learned about uncertainty

Why the retrospective prime directive is paramount

Talking about what really matters to us - what I learned from a spiritual day

Prioritizing and sequencing are not the same things

When was Lars happy?

3 mindset shifts for agile transformations

How we agile - principle-led & context-dependent

Autonomous does not mean isolated

Reflection on a daily retrospectives

The consequences of prioritizing

KanbanStats - an average improvement

The Kondo software quality index

Scaling agile - up or out

Principles and practices, guilds and cross-functional teams

Tags, markers and behaviour it drives on the board

The things I (we) worry about in vain

KanbanStats VI: Queue length

KanbanStats V: Single numbers

KanbanStats IV: Where is time spent?

KanbanStats III: throughput

KanbanStats II: filter the process chart

KanbanStats: Simplify process stats - get started

A story about dentists... busy dentists

Board visualisation tips

Kanban - cementing the flow?

3 basic (priorization) assumptions

Playing with names

What should I pick?

Reflections after Agile Greece

Some reflections after a few days as a musician

Integrate JIRA search results in Google Sheets for fun and profit

What are you going do when it's really important, then?

Thinking in flow - some recent thoughts

Priority 0 - we meet again

A simple diagram and some conversations on flow efficiency

My top 10 books

Futurespective - put the past in front of you

Review - The art of coaching

Some thoughts on organizing a team of developers

Flow and dependencies

Values and living them

Some thoughts on backlogs

Respecting slack time

Viral Change and some thoughts about tools

Review of A seat at the table

Limiting WIP and some rules of thumb

Lean/flow simulation experiments

TDD for 9 year olds - an experiment in teaching my sons class

A post on the post on queue length

My first all-remote retrospective

Don't skip hack days - that silly habit is what you are

No - waterfall is not sometimes correct. It is always wrong

Report writing - using impact maps, Stephen Covey and increments

The kanban blessing

When we used user story mapping to plan our move

Two stories I often tell on WIP as a process improvement tool

My obsession with teams

What I learned coaching a car dealership on stage

Teams are immutable structures

Deploy and release

Values to guide us

From push to pull - the essence of kanban

Flow in the F1-pit - thoughts on an inspiring video

Get a good start - start your days mid-day

Changing the die - that can't go faster

What does technical debt feel like?

Respecting your vacation - how I ended up with 0 emails in my inbox after 4 weeks vacation

Coaching when help is not wanted or important

Impacts or backlogs

A walking retrospective that only turns up the good

The nervous stats checker oscillating syndrome

Reading the Scrum Guide

Repost: The time when we did Lean backwards

Comments on common board practices - Walk the board from right to left

Some kanban Q & A Feb 2017

Comments on common board practices - Focus on the work - not the workers

Comments on common board practices - It’s not a kanban board if you don’t have a WIP limit

Comments on common board practices - Colours speaks volumes. Use colours wisely

Comments on common board practices - Done? There is no Done

Comments on common board practices - Todo/Doing/Done is not your process

Comments on common board practices - blocked should not be a column

An idea for visualising scope creep

Some roles I take on - and what they are

Some thoughts after running the marshmallow challenge with kids

3 success factors for a big room planning

Here people are saying kind things about each others

Some useful practices for flow oriented standup meetings

Bring out the good

Design our work

Reflections on TankWars or when 2 minutes was slow

The best product owner I ever met

Who is this important for?

Big room planning - a workaround that can be useful

Move the information to the authority considered harmful

Principles over (best) practices

No heroics and awesome people

Toyota Kata and the 'We can't do that here'-fallacy

It's all perspective - why haven't I seen that before?

Lead like you lead volunteers

Some reflections after seeing mob programming in action

The Bungsu Story - some progress

Backlog and features

Jidoka - an old Toyota practice makes an guest appearance

A scary thought experiment

Solving the underpants gnomes pitfall

Some thoughts after Lean Kanban North America 2016

Requirements are not problem/opportunity descriptions

Flow or value - what is it, Marcus?!

Our fear of forgetting important things

Some simple changes for flow that made a world of a difference

Flow manager - is that me?

Frequent releases and no urge to finish

What are you optimized for then?

Thoughts after a SAFe course

The Brickell Key Award - I am nominated!

We don't know what will work - a story from last week

Electronic process management tools - proceed with care

S, M, L estimate should not start with a date span

The hidden agenda of agile....

An exercise from 5 dysfunctions of a team

What is important, really?

My day off

... what does that say about me

Indonesia, Agile, Kanban, Lean - its a new book

What if only small works?

Prioritization - some thoughts and tools

Book review: 50 quick ideas to improve your retrospectives

Some kanban questions from a keen learner, and my answers

Barrier troops

Using the scientific method on our board

Review: #NoEstimates - the book

The metric / visualization pirate 'rules'

How trust, kanban and a little structure changed a life today

Changes - reasons or the opposite

The forced swing in my garden... and coaching

The Lars-principle

Review: Nature by Ron Jeffries

Indicators; leading, trailing - short or long

What can you do for us then?

Experiment - don't change

Wash your hands - make your hands clean

Progress indicators, estimates and plans

ca 10 minutes on effective meetings

QA: How big is a work item?

Only help those that want help

ca 15 minutes on Kanban

ca 15 minutes on Impact mapping

ca 15 minutes on strategic plans

ca 10 minutes on Vision statements

ca 10 minutes on Mission statements

New series: Marcus on mission, vision and strategy... and doing it

McDonalds - a tool to explain flow

Make a command to count my files

50 quick ideas to improve your tests - a review

YOW West 2015 - some thoughts

No #No - more #Less

Meta is not the most important thing

Waste and why I rather talk about something else

Stuff I said coaching

Order points, value, flow and waste

What I've learned from the first 30% of Reinventing Organizations

Why don't they change: what if I could just snap my fingers?

Why don't they change: What would make me behave like that?

Please question the process

Saying thank you for agile manifesto

Motivating in a world without WHY

What the traffic in Jakarta taught me about slack

Open letter: Management tips to Dr Lillian

A world without WHY

Why I built page-logger... and how it made me money

What if money was not an issue?

All the great teams

How far have we come?

Review: Cucumber for Java

How we created the need for an emergency lane

Things I say often: I don't care about efficiency

Emergency lanes - some tips

Things I say often: I run on feedback

Things I say often: I'm into leadership - not management

Make it smaller - some practical experiences

Things I say often: NO! This is how you tear off a post-it

Things I say often: Improving means changing

Things I say often: Why?

Things I say often: This is your board - change it

Best advice for me this year

Ferguson never touched the ball

What is The Goal?

50 Quick Ideas on User stories

Evaluating my presentations... and pricing them?

How would you measure that?

What I've learned from 'How to measure anything'

Data you can't do anything about - what's the use?

Stop starting - start finishing, or else...

Always ask kenapa

Inspections welcome

A good person and a bad system - my take

How I prepare and create presentations

Communication debts and Brazilian office mornings

It's just an experiment - experiments in practice

The time I found myself wanting stuff waiting...

Embrace uncertainty - the family version

Effective revisted

Vision statements - why not say what you REALLY mean?

cc all the things

Some thoughts about waste and waste reduction

Todo: Add tests ...

The only easy day was yesterday - this is a message of hope

My second book is out ... kinda

Ugly clothing, symbols and values

How to make a empty diagram in Excel

...and then it moved - the greatest feeling in the world!

Why so sad? Can we point to improvements without making people feel bad?

If you build it - things will improve; turning visualisations to knowledge

Ask a simpler question: real data speaks louder

Accountability, authority, trust, and all those things

Luck has nothing to do with it

What I've should done - my Jerk-store moment

Some thoughts I got after talking with Woody Zuil

Coaching exercise - building Lego

KoaJs: Making the make file test, push and all that

Simple = Good. Complex = Bad. But what does it mean?

KoaJs - the fast route between idea and production

Delegation and my jedi mind trick

Move the authority to the information, and not the other way around

The “talk about later”-list

You control the disappointment dial - use it!

Waiting is bad for you… and it’s worse than you think

“Waiting” should be a note and not a column

Marcus Node Bits: Deploying to Heroku (and MongoHq)

Looking for better

No... this is how I think

Aligning our sights - what Indonesians taught me, part I

Team Yayasan week 5: Redoing Todo

Marcus Node bits: Let's talk about Koa for a while, shall we?

"Do you think Kanban can help us?"

Team Yayasan week 4: Throughput and lead times

Marcus Node Bits: Ok then, Moogose is pretty sweet

Team Yayasan - getting started

Impact Mapping - now helping Indonesian Hospitals

Marcus Node Bits: Doing stuff in the terminal is not scary at all

Repost: Do we dare to be data-driven

On lead time and important projects

What do you want to give customers; bad or good news?

I'm telling you for the last time - Marcus style

What I'm talking about: No - I don't mean work faster

What I'm talking about: Yes - I'm talking about changing

Communication and rotting specifications

Please fail... but do it fast

Repost: Weighted index – a simple, powerful prioritization tool

Commitment can only emerge - it can't be demanded

Some experience with uncertainty

What My Fair Lady can teach us about communication

A session on Open source software at Microsoft

Repost: Some tools for improved focus, improve teamwork and faster delivery

Repost: Mob programming – full team, full throttle

Setting up a new development machine without pressing Next a single time, using Chocolately

Rules versus guiding stars ... and a lot about soccer

Lean UX with effect map - from HeltSonika

Impact mapping - you are not WHO

Low WIP, hairdressers and Lean operation strategy

What if ... mob programming?

MVP is not another word for iterations - it's for learning

Let's do something instead!

Part time coaching - some practices that helped me

Are you coding for change or stability - the followup post

Are you coding for change or for stability?

Cucumber / SpecFlow pro tip: push HOW down

Limit WIP doesn't mean doing less

Daily Sync for five teams - and get something out of it

"Between the chairs" some thoughts on backlogs and things outside them

Suggested visualization for the SÖS Children Emergency

The "I'm not allowed to do columns like that"-problem

Nancy.Testing - a closer look through her testability

How to run a LeanCoffee discussion

Team marketplace - how we splitted a big 40 person team into 5 small in 2 hours

On constraints

Have presentations - will travel

Autonomy in action - school kids

Impact Mapping - great book, great tool

Unearned trust

TDD for kids

Code Freeze, Recompile and Code generations - stuff that's not that scary with CD

Specification by example and Model based testing

You say 'continuous delivery', I say 'limit WIP'

Top 5 Agile change tips #5 - Used visualized data to improve

Top 5 Agile change tips #4 - Support the initiative

Top 5 Agile change tips #3 - Let them change how they work

Top 5 Agile change tips #2 - Sit together

Top 5 Agile change tips #1 - Get a great or-else-reason

Improving presence of a remote worker in our team

Applying Switch framework to: Meetings are not real work - part III

Applying Switch framework to: Meetings are not real work - part II

Applying Switch framework to: Meetings are not real work

Simple where-do-we-spend-our-time visualisation

Working to the Cake-limit

Summer sprints - a time to learn

Experience report from rolling out agile in a big (120+ ppl) organization

What BDD is all about

Find the control–a way to stabilize UI automation… a bit

Ask simpler questions–agile for non-techies III

SpecFlow, page objects and FluentAutomation

Deploying often is better–agile for non-techies II

Fixed price is bad for you - agile for non-techies part I

Applying the Switch framework to developers don’t want to write tests–part III

Applying the Switch framework to developers don’t want to write tests–part II

Applying the Switch framework to developers don’t want to write tests

I’m writing a book on Kanban!

Common Kanban mistakes: Not limiting WIP

Should I add bugs-scenarios in my specification?

How I do sprint planning

Some thoughts on KPI’s in agile organizations

Some common Kanban questions–my suggestions

What is agile?

Applying the Switch framework to broken builds

What i learned from 'From User stories to Acceptance tests' with Gojko Adzic

BDD and technical scenarios

OreDev 2011 - day 3

OreDev 2011 - day 2

OreDev 2011 - day 1

Is Scrum a –ism that doesn’t work for real?

Kanban-inzg the Avega Group Office–reflections

Kanban-inizing the Avega Group office–getting the show on the road

Kanban-inizing the Avega Group office–setting the stage

Who writes the specification, now again?

BDD on .NET Framework and where I learned about it

Theory of constraints and Specification by example part II

Theory of constraints and Specification by example

Specification by example with SpecLog–some initial thoughts

SpecFlow presentation at Sweden Progressive .NET

CQRS–another love story

The power of Visualization used in my current project

Developing in .Net–a new era has begun

Specification by example with SpecFlow in TFS and the question of traceability

Using tags in SpecFlow features

Group coding–a knowledge sharing tool

The emperor is naked–don’t ask me to estimate!

No more bugs – a thought experiment

How to use different app.config for each developer

A story on specification by example in two projects

Using BDD with SpecFlow, WPF and White

Using ATDD in conversion project

Specification by example – the missing link?

Status of workitems – where to keep it

Practical Kanban – some Kanban boards in practices

BDD with SpecFlow – some thoughts after a workshop at Elevate

SOAPUi and testing WCF Services – how I made it work

SOAPUi and others – regression testing services

ASP.NET MVC, StructureMap and … TDD?

Inbox zero

TDD and legacy code

Trying Coding Dojo, Kata and Extreme OOP

Red Beads and Limited WIP Society

Skillsmatter – so much to watch, so little time

The value of an ubiquitous language

Kanban example by Henrik Kniberg

Integrationtests for ASP.NET MVC applications

Agile testing – some thoughts after an excellent Elevate-evening

ÖreDev day #5 – keynote and morning

ÖreDev day #4 – Why your agile adoption fails, with Dan North

ÖreDev day #4 – morning

ÖreDev day #3 – afternoon

ÖreDev day #3 – morning sessions

ÖreDev Day #1 - Accomplishing more by doing less

Agile Coaching stuff

DDD and Naked Objects

WebCasts on all things agile

Another great Kanban introduction

Getting to the root of all things bad

Kanban – a great agile tool

Visit of Ivar Jacobson

Reference work #3 – TDD by example

Pair programming benefits and arguments

Test NHibnernate mappings with Fluent NHibnernate

Implementing Unit Of Work with NHibernate

Why do TDD?

More great stuff on BDD

Parental leave reading

Debating a hero

DDD – the coin drops for Marcus

Together in transformation – An agile Salvation Army

What to do now - Sprint Planner Helper Initialization

Clean code - the pragmatic approach

NMock2 RemotingException ByRef value type parameter cannot be null

Great SCRUM-resources

Agile testing - how we get it to work

PostSharp - a new aspect on coding

Full speed and free

Way out book on Ruby

Intensive pair-programming - comparing entity data

ScrumIndexCardCreator

Demo done - SCRUM rocks!

Demo-time!

TDD - good introduction

Scary stuff #1 - taken down

TDD - how is it done? Vol 2

Hectict times

SCRUM - an nice overview

Free books and presentations on Agile stuff

Agile?

Great article - humble Marcus

Scrum - my first encounter

NHibernate

‘urn:nhibernate-mapping-2.2' has invalid child element 'property' and Fluent NHibnerate

System.BadImageFormatException: Could not load file or assembly 'System.Data.SQLite'

ASP.NET MVC, StructureMap and … TDD?

ÖreDev day #5 – keynote and morning

ÖreDev day #3 – afternoon

ÖreDev day #2 – NHibernate in practice

Sharp Architecture presentations

AutoMapping with FluentNHibernate

Fluent NHibnerate CheckReference throws Expected ‘X’ but got ‘XProxy’

Test NHibnernate mappings with Fluent NHibnernate

Get rid of your xml – go Fluent NHibernate

Implementing Unit Of Work with NHibernate

DLINQ - Hibernate with Microsoft flavor

NHibernate

TDD

Trying out test commit or revert

TDD for 9 year olds - an experiment in teaching my sons class

Todo: Add tests ...

Marcus Node Bits: supertest is a nice way to test an api

Marcus Node Bits: Should is a nice way to do asserts

Nancy Fx - now you can read her too!

Have presentations - will travel

TDD for kids

Getting Visual Studio 2012 Test Explorer to work with NUnit,xUnit and SpecFlow

What BDD is all about

Applying the Switch framework to developers don’t want to write tests–part III

Applying the Switch framework to developers don’t want to write tests–part II

Applying the Switch framework to developers don’t want to write tests

TDD and Scaffolding

Should & Substitute–two new great friends

Snippet for creating testmethod in VB.NET

SpecFlow: BDD .NET-style

ASP.NET MVC, StructureMap and … TDD?

NUnit and the constraint based model

TDD and legacy code

Trying Coding Dojo, Kata and Extreme OOP

Reference work #3 – TDD by example

Why do TDD?

Great introduction to BDD

S#arp Architecture

Sprint Planner Helper – final

Sprint Planner Helper – Session 25

UpdateModel, FormCollection and unit test

Sprint Planner Helper – Session 21

MOQ and the “Test Run deployment issue: The location of the file or directory” problem

Sprint Planner Helper – Session 19

Sprint Planner Helper – Session 15

Why DDD rocks – the marcusoft.net version

Sprint Planner Helper – Session 11

Sprint Planner Helper – Session 6

Snippet for creating testmethod in C#

Sprint Planner Helper – Session 3

Save some space - limit the number of old test results

What to do now - Sprint Planner Helper Initialization

NMock2 RemotingException ByRef value type parameter cannot be null

How to read other exe's config

ASP.NET MVC Storefront

Agile testing - how we get it to work

The right way of calling MSTest in a TFS build script

How to run MSTest with publish parameter as MSBuild Exec-task

Automation of integration tests

TFS, MSBuild and Code Coverage

How to get rid of multiple .vsmdi-files

TypeMock - an introduction

TDD - good introduction

TDD - how is it done? Vol 2

TDD - how is it done?

VB.NET

Snippet for creating testmethod in VB.NET

Using BDD with SpecFlow, WPF and White

Vb.net considered harmful

Casting in VB.NET

PostSharp - a new aspect on coding

Using LINQ for the first time, for real

ReSharper and the messed up Intellisense

Exclude generated code from code coverage result in Team System

How to get equivalent proxy-classes to implement a shared interface

Transactions in stored procedures with transaction scope

How? What? He LIKES VB.NET?

How to get out of syntax highlighting in VB.NET

Real answere - Type '[typename]' is not CLS-compliant, interface, tests and dependency injection

Type '[typename]' is not CLS-compliant, interface, tests and dependency injection

Show current file in solution

Solution to the "Could not find file 'Microsoft.Windows.CommonLanguageRuntime error" for testprojects

Moving items in a CheckedListBox

Convert C# to VB.NET and back again

Displaying XML in WebBrowser control

Creating a dynamical AutoComplete textbox

Resharper! For VB.NET? - Revisited

Resharper! For VB.NET?

Declaring arrays in VB.NET

Send mail with VB.NET - and get notification if recipient couldn't be reached

Great tool(s) for VB.Net - Find dead code

Unable to emit assembly: Referenced assembly does not have a strong name

New (better?) refactoring support for VB.NET

Langauge differences C# and VB.Net

Refactoring support for VB.NET

Get current user name and with VB.NET

AddIn - problem and solutions

Find missing VB.NET documentation

Transform XML with XSL, and string

VB.NET - warnings for XML documentation, denied

VB.NET showing build configuration

Bad Request/Underlying connection was closed problem solved

Chose your battles

Including namespaces in new VB.NET classes

VB.NET - not that bad

TFS

Applying the Switch framework to broken builds

Specification by example with SpecFlow in TFS and the question of traceability

TF203007: Cannot create the label because the version controlled item […] already exists or has been specified more than once

Branching Guide for Team Foundation Server 2010

Task Board for Team System – finally!

Sprint Planner Helper - administration

Working directory for Build Agents and building different branches

What is a workspace in TFS?

Not trigger new build on check-in - TFS Build version of ExclusionFilters

TFS Build targets and properties - the official list

The right way of calling MSTest in a TFS build script

How to run MSTest with publish parameter as MSBuild Exec-task

ReSharper crashes

Creating link to TFS Reports in build script

TESTTOOLSTASK : warning VSP1024: Unable to open file 'file' for writing.

How to fail a tfs-build on test failing

TFS, MSBuild and Code Coverage

Exclude generated code from code coverage result in Team System

Sending parameters to msbuild in TFS

Find in SourceControl - Visual studio 2008

How to get rid of multiple .vsmdi-files

Publish TFS testresult as HTML

State diagram for Conchango work items

A Conchango Scrum TFS Template introduction

Conchango burndown chart is not working

TFS, Add solution to Source Control and some trouble along the way

TF 20017 - The area or iteration provided for field 'IterationPath' could not be found

Doing SCRUM in TFS

Tools for TFS - Team Foundation Server

Builds with TFS 2008 - soon...

Sandcastle - in build scripts

TFS Widget

Teamplain rocks

A lot of Team System

TFS useful links

TFS Best practices

TFS Build watcher - finally

TeamSystem, MSBuild and ClickOnce

Battle of the TFS build script

TeamSystem Builds

VSTS bug... or is it?

MSBuild

Configure WCF in IIS for anonymous access

Calling SOAPUi Testscript from MSBuild

SOAPUi and MSBuild

Create textfile on the fly in build scripts

Update AppSettings with XmlUpdate in build scripts

Working directory for Build Agents and building different branches

MSBuild sidekicks

MSTest and secondary references

Not trigger new build on check-in - TFS Build version of ExclusionFilters

XMLMassUpdate - how to keep environment in place with MSBuild

Calling Sandcastle with response file

TFS Build targets and properties - the official list

The right way of calling MSTest in a TFS build script

How to run MSTest with publish parameter as MSBuild Exec-task

ReSharper crashes

MSBuild, refactor and targets in other files

Creating link to TFS Reports in build script

How to fail a tfs-build on test failing

Sending parameters to msbuild in TFS

Publish TFS testresult as HTML

Sandcastle - in build scripts

TeamSystem, MSBuild and ClickOnce

Battle of the TFS build script

TeamSystem Builds

Web Design

Marcus trying JQuery

code-tag in Firefox

WebDesign - a great introduction

Free web templates

LINQ

Sprint Planner Helper – Session 18

Using LINQ for the first time, for real

Great introductions to Linq-To-SQL

The data source '' only supports a single view named 'DefaultView'

LINQ is a wonderful thing

Linq Videos

C#

Nancy Fx - now you can read her too!

I'm telling you for the last time - Marcus style

Context injection of driver object in SpecFlow

Nancy.Testing - executable specifications through the full stack, in memory

Nancy.Testing - no hat, no shoes with Simple.Data

Nancy.Testing - testing (razor) views

Nancy.Testing - test-dialogues with Requests and Response

Nancy.Testing - configure her boot...strapper

System.InvalidOperationException: No automation provider available MsTest and FluentAutomation

SpecFlow.Assist.Dynamic–maxing out with Simple.Data

SpecFlow.Assist.Dynamic–what is it?

Simple.Data–the testing story

Supported Step Exporter – watch your language

Changing endpoint from the command line when testing services with SOAPUi

Vb.net considered harmful

Trying Coding Dojo, Kata and Extreme OOP

First stop for learning events, delegates and anonymous methods

Simple but useful generic repository pattern

Snippet for creating testmethod in C#

Sprint Planner Helper – Session 3

Compress a string with zip

Aspects and policy injection - clean up your code

Managing dynamic controls in an ASP.NET page

How to get equivalent proxy-classes to implement a shared interface

Transactions in stored procedures with transaction scope

How? What? He LIKES VB.NET?

Convert C# to VB.NET and back again

ASP.NET MVC

KanbanBoards VI–OpenId Integration

Kanbanboards V–creating new boards

Kanbanboards IV–shaping stuff up

Using Unity as dependency resolver in ASP.NET MVC 3

Kanbanboards III–putting on the web

TDD and Scaffolding

KanbanBoards part II–two step forward and one back

The MVC song

ASP.NET MVC, StructureMap and … TDD?

Deploying ASP.NET MVC on IIS6

Scott Guthrie in Stockholm

Integrationtests for ASP.NET MVC applications

Testing ASP.NET MVC application with Session state

Marcus trying JQuery

ÖreDev day #5 – afternoon

ÖreDev day #4 – afternoon

ÖreDev day #4 – Why your agile adoption fails, with Dan North

ÖreDev Day #2 - ASP.NET MVC with Scott Allen

Sharp Architecture presentations

AspxPivotGrid – a mighty web control

S#arp Architecture

ASP.NET MVC presentations

UpdateModel, FormCollection and unit test

Sprint Planner Helper – Session 23

Ruby on Rails – supercool demo

ASP.NET MVC released!

ASP.NET MVC – completing the NerdDinner example

ASP.NET MVC – The Nerd Dinner example

Sprint Planner Helper – Session 20

ASP.NET MVC "The parameters dictionary contains a null entry for parameter”

ASP.NET MVC – Running transformation error solved

ASP.NET MVC – Running transformation error

Sprint Planner Helper – Session 15

Loads of ASP.NET MVC tips

Why DDD rocks – the marcusoft.net version

Sprint Planner Helper – Session 12

Sprint Planner Helper – Session 4

What to do now - Sprint Planner Helper Initialization

ASP.NET MVC Storefront

Great Silverlight 2.0 Tutorial

ASP.NET MVC - start

WCF

Configure WCF in IIS for anonymous access

Changing endpoint from the command line when testing services with SOAPUi

SOAPUi and MSBuild

SOAPUi and testing WCF Services – how I made it work

ÖreDev day #3 – afternoon

Custom tool warning: cannot import wsdl:portType

WCF with handcrafted WSDL generated no FaultExceptions

AddressFilter mismatch at the EndpointDispatcher

WCF Self-hosting and configuration

WCF Config: How to configure wsHttpBinding for no security

Full speed and free

Cool WCF-utilis

Validating WCF-messages with WSDL

WCF, WSDL and differences from web services

WCF Data Contract Versioning

Web Service Factory

How to get equivalent proxy-classes to implement a shared interface

WCF - wsdl configurations explained

WCF, WSDL and tempuri.org

WCF configuration or Do it yourself

Naming service reference to get namespace-like behavior

Error message "Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Enterprise.ASPNetHelper" when deploying

Debugging WCF Service - the Service attribute value in the ServiceHost directive could not be found

WCF - introductions

Sprint Planner Helper

Sprint Planner Helper – final

Sprint Planner Helper - Vaccation halt

Sprint Planner Helper – Session 26

Sprint Planner Helper – Session 25

Sprint Planner Helper – Session 24

UpdateModel, FormCollection and unit test

Sprint Planner Helper – Session 23

Sprint Planner Helper – Session 22

Sprint Planner Helper – Session 21

Sprint Planner Helper – Session 20

Sprint Planner Helper – Session 19

Sprint Planner Helper – Session 18

Sprint Planner Helper – Session 17

Sprint Planner Helper – Session 16

Sprint Planner Helper – Session 15

Sprint Planner Helper – Session 14

Sprint Planner Helper – Session 13

Sprint Planner Helper – Session 12

Sprint Planner Helper – Session 11

DDD – the coin drops for Marcus

Sprint Planner Helper – Session 10

Sprint Planner Helper – Session 9

Sprint Planner Helper – Session 8

Sprint Planner Helper – Session 7

Sprint Planner Helper – Session 6

Sprint Planner Helper – Session 5

Sprint Planner Helper – Session 4

Sprint Planner Helper – Session 3

Sprint Planner Helper – Session 2

Sprint Planner Helper – Session 1

Sprint Planner Helper - administration

What to do now - Sprint Planner Helper Initialization

DDD

Specification by example – the missing link?

The value of an ubiquitous language

ÖreDev day #4 – morning

DDD and Naked Objects

AutoMapping with FluentNHibernate

Implementing Unit Of Work with NHibernate

Parental leave reading

DDD – what’s the deal?

Sprint Planner Helper – final

Sprint Planner Helper – Session 17

Sprint Planner Helper – Session 16

Why DDD rocks – the marcusoft.net version

DDD – the coin drops for Marcus

BDD

Formulation - the crucial (often missed) step of BDD

Review: Cucumber for Java

Marcus Node Bits: supertest is a nice way to test an api

Marcus Node Bits: Should is a nice way to do asserts

Marcus Node Bits: mocha is cool both as framework and test runner

I'm telling you for the last time - Marcus style

Communication and rotting specifications

Context injection of driver object in SpecFlow

Cucumber / SpecFlow pro tip: push HOW down

Pickles - generate SpecFlow documentation from MsBuild and PowerShell

Have presentations - will travel

Getting Visual Studio 2012 Test Explorer to work with NUnit,xUnit and SpecFlow

Great Visual Studio integration - another of the many reasons to upgrade to SpecFlow 1.9

What BDD is all about

Should I add bugs-scenarios in my specification?

What i learned from 'From User stories to Acceptance tests' with Gojko Adzic

BDD and technical scenarios

SpecFlow.Assist.Dynamic–maxing out with Simple.Data

SpecFlow.Assist.Dynamic–how to use it

Executable specification - the whole stack or not

BDD on .NET Framework and where I learned about it

Theory of constraints and Specification by example part II

Theory of constraints and Specification by example

Clean up your steps–use page objects in SpecFlow step definitions

Two types in SpecFlow; ScenarioContext and FeatureContext

KanbanBoards VI–OpenId Integration

Specification by example with SpecLog–some initial thoughts

Kanbanboards V–creating new boards

Customize your SpecFlow templates and more

Kanbanboards IV–shaping stuff up

CQRS–another love story

Kanbanboards III–putting on the web

KanbanBoards part II–two step forward and one back

Specification by example with SpecFlow in TFS and the question of traceability

Know where you step–generate a step definition report with SpecFlow

SpecFlow.exe and MsTest

Should & Substitute–two new great friends

How to use different app.config for each developer

A story on doing outside-in development with SpecFlow

WhiteStepHelper – a small step toward smaller steps

A story on specification by example in two projects

Using BDD with SpecFlow, WPF and White

Using ATDD in conversion project

Specification by example – the missing link?

BDD with SpecFlow – some thoughts after a workshop at Elevate

SpecFlow: BDD .NET-style

ASP.NET MVC, StructureMap and … TDD?

Skillsmatter – so much to watch, so little time

ÖreDev day #5 – afternoon

ÖreDev day #5 – keynote and morning

Why do TDD?

More great stuff on BDD

Great introduction to BDD

ÖreDev

OreDev 2011 - day 3

OreDev 2011 - day 2

OreDev 2011 - day 1

CQRS–another love story

Inbox zero

ÖreDev day #5 – afternoon

ÖreDev day #5 – keynote and morning

ÖreDev day #4 – afternoon

ÖreDev day #4 – Why your agile adoption fails, with Dan North

ÖreDev day #4 – morning

ÖreDev day #3 – afternoon

ÖreDev day #3 – morning sessions

ÖreDev day #2 – NHibernate in practice

ÖreDev Day #2 - ASP.NET MVC with Scott Allen

ÖreDev Day #1 - Accomplishing more by doing less

Kanban

Some questions about estimation and plannning

How do I kanbanize my 300 items backlog - a response

Prioritizing and sequencing are not the same things

Reflection on a daily retrospectives

The consequences of prioritizing

KanbanStats - an average improvement

KanbanStats VI: Queue length

KanbanStats V: Single numbers

KanbanStats IV: Where is time spent?

KanbanStats III: throughput

KanbanStats II: filter the process chart

KanbanStats: Simplify process stats - get started

A story about dentists... busy dentists

Board visualisation tips

Kanban - cementing the flow?

3 basic (priorization) assumptions

Playing with names

What should I pick?

Integrate JIRA search results in Google Sheets for fun and profit

What are you going do when it's really important, then?

Thinking in flow - some recent thoughts

Priority 0 - we meet again

A simple diagram and some conversations on flow efficiency

Futurespective - put the past in front of you

Some thoughts on organizing a team of developers

Flow and dependencies

Values and living them

Some thoughts on backlogs

Respecting slack time

Viral Change and some thoughts about tools

Review of A seat at the table

Limiting WIP and some rules of thumb

Lean/flow simulation experiments

A post on the post on queue length

The kanban blessing

My obsession with teams

What I learned coaching a car dealership on stage

Teams are immutable structures

Deploy and release

From push to pull - the essence of kanban

Flow in the F1-pit - thoughts on an inspiring video

Reading the Scrum Guide

Comments on common board practices - Walk the board from right to left

Some kanban Q & A Feb 2017

Comments on common board practices - Focus on the work - not the workers

Comments on common board practices - It’s not a kanban board if you don’t have a WIP limit

Comments on common board practices - Colours speaks volumes. Use colours wisely

Comments on common board practices - Done? There is no Done

Comments on common board practices - Todo/Doing/Done is not your process

Comments on common board practices - blocked should not be a column

Some useful practices for flow oriented standup meetings

Bring out the good

Design our work

The best product owner I ever met

Principles over (best) practices

Some reflections after seeing mob programming in action

The Bungsu Story - some progress

Backlog and features

Jidoka - an old Toyota practice makes an guest appearance

A scary thought experiment

Solving the underpants gnomes pitfall

Some thoughts after Lean Kanban North America 2016

Requirements are not problem/opportunity descriptions

Developer failure

Flow or value - what is it, Marcus?!

Our fear of forgetting important things

Some simple changes for flow that made a world of a difference

Flow manager - is that me?

Frequent releases and no urge to finish

What are you optimized for then?

Thoughts after a SAFe course

The Brickell Key Award - I am nominated!

Electronic process management tools - proceed with care

Some kanban questions from a keen learner, and my answers

Using the scientific method on our board

The metric / visualization pirate 'rules'

How trust, kanban and a little structure changed a life today

Progress indicators, estimates and plans

QA: How big is a work item?

ca 15 minutes on Kanban

Stuff I said coaching

Order points, value, flow and waste

What I've learned from the first 30% of Reinventing Organizations

All the great teams

How we created the need for an emergency lane

Emergency lanes - some tips

Things I say often: NO! This is how you tear off a post-it

Things I say often: This is your board - change it

How would you measure that?

Stop starting - start finishing, or else...

Inspections welcome

A good person and a bad system - my take

How I prepare and create presentations

It's just an experiment - experiments in practice

The time I found myself wanting stuff waiting...

Effective revisted

Vision statements - why not say what you REALLY mean?

cc all the things

Some thoughts about waste and waste reduction

The only easy day was yesterday - this is a message of hope

How to make a empty diagram in Excel

...and then it moved - the greatest feeling in the world!

Why so sad? Can we point to improvements without making people feel bad?

If you build it - things will improve; turning visualisations to knowledge

Ask a simpler question: real data speaks louder

Accountability, authority, trust, and all those things

What I've should done - my Jerk-store moment

The “talk about later”-list

Waiting is bad for you… and it’s worse than you think

“Waiting” should be a note and not a column

Looking for better

Team Yayasan week 5: Redoing Todo

"Do you think Kanban can help us?"

Team Yayasan week 4: Throughput and lead times

Team Yayasan week 3: Understanding the problem and sloppy limits

Team Yayasan week 2: Transparency, culture and lower WIP

Team Yayasan - getting started

I'm telling you for the last time - Marcus style

Low WIP, hairdressers and Lean operation strategy

What if ... mob programming?

Limit WIP doesn't mean doing less

The "I'm not allowed to do columns like that"-problem

Have presentations - will travel

You say 'continuous delivery', I say 'limit WIP'

Simple where-do-we-spend-our-time visualisation

Working to the Cake-limit

Summer sprints - a time to learn

I’m writing a book on Kanban!

Common Kanban mistakes: Not limiting WIP

Some thoughts on KPI’s in agile organizations

Some common Kanban questions–my suggestions

OreDev 2011 - day 3

Is Scrum a –ism that doesn’t work for real?

Kanban-inzg the Avega Group Office–reflections

Kanban-inizing the Avega Group office–getting the show on the road

Kanban-inizing the Avega Group office–setting the stage

Theory of constraints and Specification by example part II

Theory of constraints and Specification by example

CQRS–another love story

The power of Visualization used in my current project

Specification by example – the missing link?

Status of workitems – where to keep it

Practical Kanban – some Kanban boards in practices

Red Beads and Limited WIP Society

Kanban example by Henrik Kniberg

SpecFlow

I'm telling you for the last time - Marcus style

Context injection of driver object in SpecFlow

Cucumber / SpecFlow pro tip: push HOW down

Nancy.Testing - executable specifications through the full stack, in memory

Pickles - generate SpecFlow documentation from MsBuild and PowerShell

Have presentations - will travel

Getting Visual Studio 2012 Test Explorer to work with NUnit,xUnit and SpecFlow

Great Visual Studio integration - another of the many reasons to upgrade to SpecFlow 1.9

Find the control–a way to stabilize UI automation… a bit

SpecFlow, page objects and FluentAutomation

Creating a tools only NuGet package

SpecFlow.Assist.Dynamic–maxing out with Simple.Data

SpecFlow.Assist.Dynamic–how to use it

SpecFlow.Assist.Dynamic–what is it?

Clean up your steps–use page objects in SpecFlow step definitions

Two types in SpecFlow; ScenarioContext and FeatureContext

SpecFlow presentation at Sweden Progressive .NET

Error “The provider did not return a ProviderManifestToken string” with SQL Compact Edition

In SpecFlow–a test runner is just glue

Kanbanboards V–creating new boards

Customize your SpecFlow templates and more

Kanbanboards III–putting on the web

Specification by example with SpecFlow in TFS and the question of traceability

Know where you step–generate a step definition report with SpecFlow

SpecFlow.exe and MsTest

App.config for SpecFlow using MsTest

Using tags in SpecFlow features

A story on doing outside-in development with SpecFlow

Supported Step Exporter – watch your language

WhiteStepHelper – a small step toward smaller steps

KanbanBoards

Communication debts and Brazilian office mornings

KanbanBoards VI–OpenId Integration

Kanbanboards V–creating new boards

Kanbanboards IV–shaping stuff up

Kanbanboards III–putting on the web

KanbanBoards part II–two step forward and one back

Developing in .Net–a new era has begun

MobProgramming

Javascript callbacks: can't live with them can't live without them... or can you?

Marcus Node Bits: Ok then, Moogose is pretty sweet

Impact Mapping - now helping Indonesian Hospitals

Marcus Node Bits: supertest is a nice way to test an api

Marcus Node Bits: Express is best without generators

Marcus Node Bits: Should is a nice way to do asserts

Marcus Node Bits: mocha is cool both as framework and test runner

Marcus Node Bits: Callback function is cool stuff, and I even know how to write them

Marcus Node Bits: Git is not that hard, but I need to refresh my knowledge

Marcus Node Bits: Package.json is a mighty tool

Marcus Node Bits: npm is not only for getting packages

Marcus Node Bits: Doing stuff in the terminal is not scary at all

Marcus Node Bits: Writing stuff down is great to remember it

On lead time and important projects

CQRS–another love story

CQRS

CQRS–another love story

Specification by example

Formulation - the crucial (often missed) step of BDD

Review: Cucumber for Java

How would you measure that?

My second book is out ... kinda

Some thoughts I got after talking with Woody Zuil

I'm telling you for the last time - Marcus style

Communication and rotting specifications

Context injection of driver object in SpecFlow

Cucumber / SpecFlow pro tip: push HOW down

Nancy.Testing - executable specifications through the full stack, in memory

Pickles - generate SpecFlow documentation from MsBuild and PowerShell

TDD for kids

Specification by example and Model based testing

Should I add bugs-scenarios in my specification?

What i learned from 'From User stories to Acceptance tests' with Gojko Adzic

SpecFlow.Assist.Dynamic–maxing out with Simple.Data

SpecFlow.Assist.Dynamic–how to use it

Executable specification - the whole stack or not

Who writes the specification, now again?

ContinuousDelivery

...and then it moved - the greatest feeling in the world!

KoaJs: Making the make file test, push and all that

KoaJs - the fast route between idea and production

Marcus Node Bits: Deploying to Heroku (and MongoHq)

Please fail... but do it fast

What if ... mob programming?

Get MongoDB running on AppHarbour - it's an AppSetting thing

AppHarbor, Nancy and the Could not load file or assembly 'Nancy.ViewEngines.Razor.BuildProviders' error

Impact Mapping - great book, great tool

Code Freeze, Recompile and Code generations - stuff that's not that scary with CD

Lean

Building teams - where our training starts

Remote work, transparency, and feedback

How we start with trust and vulnerable in our developer training

How do you get so much done?

Metrics on 'well-defined' projects - and what I learned about uncertainty

Why the retrospective prime directive is paramount

Prioritizing and sequencing are not the same things

When was Lars happy?

3 mindset shifts for agile transformations

How we agile - principle-led & context-dependent

Autonomous does not mean isolated

Reflection on a daily retrospectives

The consequences of prioritizing

KanbanStats - an average improvement

The Kondo software quality index

Scaling agile - up or out

Principles and practices, guilds and cross-functional teams

Tags, markers and behaviour it drives on the board

The things I (we) worry about in vain

KanbanStats VI: Queue length

KanbanStats V: Single numbers

KanbanStats IV: Where is time spent?

KanbanStats III: throughput

KanbanStats II: filter the process chart

KanbanStats: Simplify process stats - get started

A story about dentists... busy dentists

Board visualisation tips

Kanban - cementing the flow?

3 basic (priorization) assumptions

Playing with names

What should I pick?

Reflections after Agile Greece

Some reflections after a few days as a musician

What I learned when installing 33 developer computers in 5 hours

Integrate JIRA search results in Google Sheets for fun and profit

What are you going do when it's really important, then?

Thinking in flow - some recent thoughts

Priority 0 - we meet again

A simple diagram and some conversations on flow efficiency

My top 10 books

Futurespective - put the past in front of you

Some thoughts on organizing a team of developers

Flow and dependencies

Values and living them

Some thoughts on backlogs

Respecting slack time

Viral Change and some thoughts about tools

Review of A seat at the table

Limiting WIP and some rules of thumb

Lean/flow simulation experiments

A post on the post on queue length

Don't skip hack days - that silly habit is what you are

No - waterfall is not sometimes correct. It is always wrong

Report writing - using impact maps, Stephen Covey and increments

The kanban blessing

When we used user story mapping to plan our move

Two stories I often tell on WIP as a process improvement tool

My obsession with teams

What I learned coaching a car dealership on stage

Teams are immutable structures

Deploy and release

Values to guide us

From push to pull - the essence of kanban

Flow in the F1-pit - thoughts on an inspiring video

Changing the die - that can't go faster

What does technical debt feel like?

Respecting your vacation - how I ended up with 0 emails in my inbox after 4 weeks vacation

Coaching when help is not wanted or important

Impacts or backlogs

A walking retrospective that only turns up the good

The nervous stats checker oscillating syndrome

Reading the Scrum Guide

Repost: The time when we did Lean backwards

Some kanban Q & A Feb 2017

An idea for visualising scope creep

Some roles I take on - and what they are

Some thoughts after running the marshmallow challenge with kids

3 success factors for a big room planning

Here people are saying kind things about each others

Some useful practices for flow oriented standup meetings

Bring out the good

Design our work

Reflections on TankWars or when 2 minutes was slow

The best product owner I ever met

Who is this important for?

Big room planning - a workaround that can be useful

Move the information to the authority considered harmful

Principles over (best) practices

No heroics and awesome people

Toyota Kata and the 'We can't do that here'-fallacy

It's all perspective - why haven't I seen that before?

Lead like you lead volunteers

Some reflections after seeing mob programming in action

The Bungsu Story - some progress

Backlog and features

Jidoka - an old Toyota practice makes an guest appearance

A scary thought experiment

Solving the underpants gnomes pitfall

Some thoughts after Lean Kanban North America 2016

Requirements are not problem/opportunity descriptions

Developer failure

Flow or value - what is it, Marcus?!

Our fear of forgetting important things

Some simple changes for flow that made a world of a difference

Flow manager - is that me?

Frequent releases and no urge to finish

What are you optimized for then?

Thoughts after a SAFe course

The Brickell Key Award - I am nominated!

We don't know what will work - a story from last week

Electronic process management tools - proceed with care

S, M, L estimate should not start with a date span

The hidden agenda of agile....

An exercise from 5 dysfunctions of a team

What is important, really?

My day off

... what does that say about me

Indonesia, Agile, Kanban, Lean - its a new book

What if only small works?

Prioritization - some thoughts and tools

Barrier troops

Using the scientific method on our board

Review: #NoEstimates - the book

The metric / visualization pirate 'rules'

The forced swing in my garden... and coaching

The Lars-principle

Review: Nature by Ron Jeffries

Indicators; leading, trailing - short or long

What can you do for us then?

Experiment - don't change

Wash your hands - make your hands clean

Progress indicators, estimates and plans

ca 10 minutes on effective meetings

ca 10 minutes on Root Cause Analysis

Only help those that want help

ca 15 minutes on Kanban

ca 15 minutes on Impact mapping

ca 15 minutes on strategic plans

ca 10 minutes on Vision statements

ca 10 minutes on Mission statements

New series: Marcus on mission, vision and strategy... and doing it

McDonalds - a tool to explain flow

50 quick ideas to improve your tests - a review

YOW West 2015 - some thoughts

Meta is not the most important thing

Waste and why I rather talk about something else

Stuff I said coaching

Order points, value, flow and waste

What I've learned from the first 30% of Reinventing Organizations

Why don't they change: what if I could just snap my fingers?

Why don't they change: What would make me behave like that?

Please question the process

Motivating in a world without WHY

What the traffic in Jakarta taught me about slack

Open letter: Management tips to Dr Lillian

A world without WHY

Why I built page-logger... and how it made me money

What if money was not an issue?

All the great teams

How far have we come?

Things I say often: I don't care about efficiency

Things I say often: I run on feedback

Things I say often: I'm into leadership - not management

Make it smaller - some practical experiences

Things I say often: Improving means changing

Things I say often: Why?

Things I say often: This is your board - change it

New series: 'Things I say often'

Ferguson never touched the ball

What is The Goal?

How would you measure that?

What I've learned from 'How to measure anything'

Data you can't do anything about - what's the use?

Stop starting - start finishing, or else...

Always ask kenapa

Inspections welcome

A good person and a bad system - my take

It's just an experiment - experiments in practice

The time I found myself wanting stuff waiting...

Embrace uncertainty - the family version

Effective revisted

Vision statements - why not say what you REALLY mean?

cc all the things

Some thoughts about waste and waste reduction

The only easy day was yesterday - this is a message of hope

My second book is out ... kinda

Ugly clothing, symbols and values

Why so sad? Can we point to improvements without making people feel bad?

If you build it - things will improve; turning visualisations to knowledge

Ask a simpler question: real data speaks louder

Accountability, authority, trust, and all those things

Luck has nothing to do with it

What I've should done - my Jerk-store moment

Some thoughts I got after talking with Woody Zuil

Simple = Good. Complex = Bad. But what does it mean?

KoaJs - the fast route between idea and production

Delegation and my jedi mind trick

Move the authority to the information, and not the other way around

The “talk about later”-list

You control the disappointment dial - use it!

Waiting is bad for you… and it’s worse than you think

“Waiting” should be a note and not a column

Marcus Node Bits: Deploying to Heroku (and MongoHq)

Looking for better

No... this is how I think

Aligning our sights - what Indonesians taught me, part I

Team Yayasan week 5: Redoing Todo

"Do you think Kanban can help us?"

Team Yayasan week 4: Throughput and lead times

Team Yayasan week 3: Understanding the problem and sloppy limits

Team Yayasan week 2: Transparency, culture and lower WIP

Team Yayasan - getting started

Impact Mapping - now helping Indonesian Hospitals

Repost: Do we dare to be data-driven

On lead time and important projects

What do you want to give customers; bad or good news?

I'm telling you for the last time - Marcus style

What I'm talking about: No - I don't mean work faster

What I'm talking about: Yes - I'm talking about changing

Please fail... but do it fast

Repost: Weighted index – a simple, powerful prioritization tool

Repost: Some tools for improved focus, improve teamwork and faster delivery

Repost: Mob programming – full team, full throttle

Lean UX with effect map - from HeltSonika

Impact mapping - you are not WHO

Moving to Indonesia

Low WIP, hairdressers and Lean operation strategy

What if ... mob programming?

MVP is not another word for iterations - it's for learning

Let's do something instead!

Are you coding for change or stability - the followup post

Are you coding for change or for stability?

Limit WIP doesn't mean doing less

Daily Sync for five teams - and get something out of it

"Between the chairs" some thoughts on backlogs and things outside them

Suggested visualization for the SÖS Children Emergency

How to run a LeanCoffee discussion

Team marketplace - how we splitted a big 40 person team into 5 small in 2 hours

On constraints

Have presentations - will travel

Autonomy in action - school kids