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Humans In The Loop, SoCraTes Belgium 2026 SocratesBE just ended and triggered a powerful emotional response within me that I feel I need to share. All of these following things have (had) an impact on my experience and…
I believe there is both a positive and negative reinforcing feedback loop between appreciation, motivation and performance. And becoming aware of this simple model may help counteract the vicious aspect and strengthen…
Last year I blogged as well, and this year, I'm doing more of the same! Hooray! Thanks for the laughs and many inside jokes to my travel companions and colleagues Frans Guelinckx, Steven Op de beeck. Imanuel Rennen, Tom…
This year I got the opportunity to find out what all the fuss on DareFest was about. I went the full three days, from Wednesday the 24th of August until Friday the 26th, smack dab in the middle of a rare heatwave.…
I blogged about Day 1 and Day 2 of The Lead Developer conference in London. The videos have been released today, so here's an easier way of watching all the presentations I recommended in those previous posts.
The Lead Developer conference, or at least the one I went to, was held on the 23rd and 24th of June 2016, in the Queen Elizabeth II Centre in London, during the Brexit vote. This is a post about all of the talks of Day…
The Lead Developer conference, or at least the one I went to, was held on the 23rd and 24th of June 2016, in the Queen Elizabeth II Centre in London, during the Brexit vote. It's a conference mainly about "that other…
Use Lean principles' Value Stream Mapping if you want to: identify and optimize your process boost team morale by showing you're making something valuable boost collaboration between analysts and developers want a break…
After last times Event Storming exercise I was anxious to do it again. And as luck would have it, an opportunity arose soon after. Friend and colleague Tom Toutenel asked me if I could facilitate an event storming…
Christopher Avery did a bunch of research and eventually came up with The Responsibility Process. Watch this YouTube video too. In short, it explains how responsibility is not to be considered a trait, something you…
As I'm currently in between projects at Cegeka and just finished working on an RFP, I got to factor in a day of learning along with other developers last friday. And boy oh boy was it worthwile. TL;DR? Skip to the…
Yesterday I went to the Coach Retreat in Leuven, hosted by Cegeka. Here's a little report on my personal view of the event. Based on the title, I was thinking something in the likes of a playground for coaches, where…