• Facilitating - creating space for experiments
• Experiential - learning by play and experience
• Systemic - focusing on the whole and the relations
• Continuously reflecting and improving
• Growth and development in small steps
• Process oriented & results oriented

• Faciliterend - ruimte creëren voor experimenteren
• Experientieel - leren door spel en ervaring
• Systemisch - focus op het geheel en de samenhang
• Gericht op continue reflectie en verbetering
• Groei en ontwikkeling in kleine stapjes
• Procesgericht & resultaatgericht

• Dreamfeed - Marc's weblog

White papers

• Marc Evers, Willem van den Ende, People vs. Process: Cultural Patterns of Software Organizations, expected: January 2008

Selected articles

• Willem van den Ende, Marc Evers, Test-gestuurde softwareontwikkeling, in: Software Release Magazine 8 (jaargang 7), december 2002, pp. 27-31
• Marc Evers, SimBeplanting, in: Essaybundel Kennisdisseminatie, Wageningen-UR , 2001, pp. 72-73
• Willem van den Ende, Marc Evers, RAD en geautomatiseerd testen – Goede toepassing vraagt denkomslag, motivatie en discipline, in: Software Release Magazine 6 (jaargang 6), oktober 2001, pp. 13-16
• Marc Evers & Anton Nijholt, Embodied agents in de interface – Softwarearchitectuur voor agents, in: Informatie, mei 2001, pp. 32-36
• G. Florijn, M. van Elswijk en M. Evers, Voortdurende veranderingen kwellen softwarearchitecten, in: Automatiseringsgids, jaargang 35, nr. 10, maart 2001, p. 17
• Willem van den Ende, Marc Evers, Extreme programming: niet revolutionair, wel praktisch – gedisciplineerd ontwikkelen zonder overbodig papierwerk, in: Software Release Magazine 4 (jaargang 5), juni 2000, pp. 36-40

Presentations

• People vs. Process: Cultural Patterns of Software Organizations, November 2007 (PDF, 1 MB)
• Refactoring Legacy Systems, November 2007 (PDF, 1.4 MB)

• playing is learning, learning by playing
• baby steps
• becoming more fully human
• from dependence via independence to interdependence
• co-creating a sustainable, healthy future
• going from being reactive to anticipating and improvising
• being alive!

People

• Marc Evers - e-mail: marc, weblog, LinkedIn profile
  Focus: agile software development, refactoring & automated testing, organizational learning, systems thinking, Satir tools
• Maroesja Evers - e-mail: maroesja
  Focus: Satir tools, systems thinking

We work together with a number of colleagues.

Credits

The name Piecemeal Growth has its origin in the work of the architect Christopher Alexander. Brian Foote and Joseph Yoder give an interpretation of piecemeal growth in the context of software development in their Big Ball of Mud article.

The logo is the Quintron sculpture, created by Bathsheba Grossman. This website is powered by Wiki2Go.]]> marc 08 December 2007 22:35 GMT http://www.piecemealgrowth.nl/Over.html /Over

• spelen is leren, leren door spelen
• kleine stapjes
• meer volledig mens worden
• van afhankelijkheid via onafhankelijkheid naar interafhankelijkheid
• co-creatie van een duurzame, gezonde toekomst
• van reageren naar anticiperen en improviseren
• leven!

Mensen

• Marc Evers - e-mail: marc, weblog, LinkedIn profiel
  Focus: agile softwareontwikkeling, refactoring & geautomatiseerd testen, lerende organisaties, systeemdenken, Satir tools
• Maroesja Evers - e-mail: maroesja
  Focus: Satir tools, systeemdenken

Credits

De naam Piecemeal Growth is afkomstig uit het werk van de architect Christopher Alexander. Brian Foote en Joseph Yoder geven een interpretatie van piecemeal growth in de context van softwareontwikkeling in hun artikel Big Ball of Mud.

Het logo is de sculptuur Quintron van de kunstenares Bathsheba Grossman.

Deze website is gemaakt met Wiki2Go.]]> marc 08 December 2007 22:17 GMT http://www.piecemealgrowth.nl/Services.html /Services We help individuals and teams in their personal and professional growth. Our approach is characterised by learning in small steps, in a playful way, while keeping a focus on the whole.

We offer the following services:

• Agile mentoring & coaching - we mentor individuals and development teams, technical staff, project managers, IT managers.
  Learn how to become more effective through working and thinking in an agile way, e.g. using Scrum, lean software development, or Extreme Programming; learn how to do iterative planning and how to increase project transparency through burndown/burnup charts and other simple visual tools; learn how to continuously improve using agile retrospectives

• Workshops & training courses - get trained in agile and lean software development, agile project management, systems thinking, and communication skills. We offer both introductory workshops (e.g. agile & lean software development - what's it all about?) and hands on, in depth courses (e.g. refactoring, automated web integration testing)

• Retrospective facilitation - learn from your projects through project and release retrospectives

• Mentoring & training agile coaches & mentors, Scrum masters, agile project managers - would you like to become an agile, learning organisation? do you want to reflect on your agile coaching and mentoring skills and continuously learn and improve yourself? We can help in growing agile coaches and project managers. We are effective sparring partners for agile change artists.

• Organizing and facilitating knowledge building & sharing events - we can help you become a learning organization through both internal and external Open Space workshops and conferences that address the issues that you really care about.

• Software development mentoring & coaching - learn e.g. test driven development, refactoring, unit testing techniques, automated web integration testing

• Software process consultancy - we advise on how to build and maintain an effective, learning software organisation

Agile coaching and mentoring

We help teams transition to agile software development, e.g. using Scrum, Lean Software Development, or Extreme Programming. We can help you among other things to learn planning and working in short iterations, to release more frequently and with less effort, to deliver software of higher quality, and to improve project steerability.

Software development coaching

Would you like to improve your programming skills and the quality of your design and code? Would you like to learn test driven development and refactoring? We coach individuals and teams in test driven software development, refactoring, unit testing, automated acceptance testing, design patterns, and object oriented analysis and design.

Conference organisation

We have co-organised several successful conferences:

• Agile Open - an Open Space conference about agile software and business development.
• XP Day Benelux - the annual Benelux conference about agile software development and Extreme Programming.
• Dutch Open 2005 conference for SoL-Neth, the Dutch fractal of the Society for Organisational Learning.

A retrospective is an effective way to learn from experience and to improve processes. The costs of a retrospective are small with respect to the costs of the project as a whole (0,5% to 4%). The results of a retrospective help to work more effectively and efficiently in successive projects, which will save much more time and money than a retrospective costs.

We can facilitate retrospectives for your projects or help you in setting up regular retrospectives in your organisation.]]> marc 18 September 2007 22:30 GMT http://www.piecemealgrowth.nl/BegeleidingEnFacilitatie.html /BegeleidingEnFacilitatie Agile coaching en mentoring

Wij helpen teams en organisaties over te gaan naar agile softwareontwikkeling, bijvoorbeeld met behulp van Scrum, Lean Software Development of Extreme Programming. We kunnen u onder andere helpen om te leren plannen en werken in korte iteraties, vaker en eenvoudiger releases te doen, software van hogere kwaliteit op te leveren en projecten beter stuurbaar te maken.

Software development coaching

Wilt u uw ontwerp- en programmeervaardigheden verbeteren en software van hogere kwaliteit opleveren? Wilt u refactoring en testgestuurd ontwikkelen leren? Wij begeleiden individuen en teams op het gebied van testgestuurde softwareontwikkeling, refactoring, unittesten, geautomatiseerde acceptatietests, ontwerppatronen en object-georiënteerde analyse en ontwerp.

Open Space workshops

Wij kunnen Open Space events of World Café sessies voor u organiseren of u begeleiden in het leren organiseren van dit soort large scale interventions.

Organisatie van conferenties

We hebben verschillende succesvolle conferenties georganiseerd:

• Agile Open - een Open Space conferentie over agile software & business development.
• XP Day Benelux - de jaarlijkse conferentie in de Benelux over agile softwareontwikkeling en Extreme Programming
• Dutch Open 2005 conferentie van SoL-Neth, de Nederlandse fractal van de Society for Organisational Learning.

Een retrospectie is een effectief middel om te leren, om ervaringen vast te leggen en om processen te verbeteren. De kosten zijn klein ten opzichte van de totale kosten van een project (0,5% tot 4%). Op basis van de geleerde lessen kan effectiever en efficiënter gewerkt worden in volgende projecten, hetgeen ruimschoots de tijd en het geld bespaart die retrospecties kosten.

Wij kunnen retrospecties voor uw projecten faciliteren of u helpen om een systeem van frequente retrospecties op te zetten in uw organisatie.]]>