What we can learn from the Sri Lankan hotel business. — In this series of Agile In Real Life (IRL) I write about how Agile can be or is applied in non-software development practices. I reflect on things that I come across or write about my own experiences, explaining some of the Agile practices with Real Life examples. When you think…

How MoSCoW can help you as a Product Manager to make your committed dates. — As a Product Manager you are bound to deal with deadlines at some point. …

What Product Managers can learn from the Dutch Government when setting up (Product) Health Metrics. — Setting up Health Metrics for your company or product can be super useful, but it is not always that straightforward. Because how do you choose the right ones? And how would you use them within your team? …

How to build relationships with your customers and increase the impact of your internal products. — Although the vast majority of product examples are always about consumer-facing products like Netflix or Uber, a lot of us Product Managers are working on internal products. Products that are built for fellow colleagues. I have done so myself as well and I found that promoting your product is just…

A simplified and opinionated explanation. — Since I switched jobs (and companies), from a Product Owner (PO) to a Product Manager (PM), I got questioned a lot about the difference. And not only by my friends and family but also from people within the industry. So is there a difference? If you ask me there definitely…

How we created a tool that makes practicing Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) easier. — This article is collaboratively written by Dominik Garcia (Software Engineer) & Jim van der Waal (Product Manager), who were both part of the team that developed the SLO Creation Tool. In the last years the SRE movement has got a lot of traction. After the publication of the book the…

Within The Netherlands, bol.com is known for being an early adopter of agile practices and has been an example for a lot of companies in their (agile) transformation. But while I was working there as a product owner I still felt that we were not quite there yet regarding agility. …

This talk was given last year at the Spaces Summit, an internal conference of bol.com. Sharing my first experiences on how we work at Onefootball, focused on Product & Engineering. …

This article is part of a series regarding Personal and Career development. It elaborates more on the “opportunities” of the earlier discussed framework. It dives deeper in how to look for job opportunities and a way how you can analyse them. In the end we don’t need to forget that…