Covid-19 Trilogy Part II - Season Load and season mindset
Covid-19 rules the world, so it determines the subjects for our podcast. Just like others, we moved from studio recording to home recording. Basically working from home (WFH).
Experimentation - it starts with courage and curiosity
The two guests of our show work in our experimentation team. They set a target at the beginning of 2019: Our goal is to help hundreds of people at bol. com to run experiments (more effectively).
In this episode of the podcast, we talk about accelerating organisations. We invited Jurriaan Kamer and Rini van Solingen to our studio. They recently launched their book - Formule X - Hoe zorg je voor extreme versnelling in je organisatie - at bol.
Agile at Scale - Reality is complex, don't expect simple solutions
Agile at Scale. Ever since we started our journey into Agile and scrum, we have been wondering whether we were on the right path for business and IT agility. Way back when we were with 7 scrum teams scaling wasn’t the most important issue.
Testing has been in an accelerated evolution over the last decade. Due to the fact that different practices — like Continuous Integration and Delivery, DevOps, and Agile — have shifted and refined at a rapid pace.
In this blog, we would like to give a short insight on testing at bol.
In the heart of the Agile method are autonomous teams that take responsibility and make their own decisions. Transitioning to self-organizing teams may seem like a risk, a move intuitively perilous to quality. But Rini van Solingen explains how bol.
Over 1200 people work at bol. com and our IT department consists of more than 350 engineers, clustered into 60 cross-functional teams. These teams are all grouped in fleets and spaces.
Our agile journey so far – Part 5: Sustaining the change
This is the fifth and last post about our growth story. You’ve read about the history of bol. com and the process they made to reach their goal: landing on the moon.
For the last 4 years, Menno represents bol. com as a guest lecturer in one of the courses of the Software Engineering Master's program at University of Amsterdam, this year it's about Requirements Engineering.
Have you ever wondered how bol.