Pick my Brain

02/04/2014

The gap between sales and technology is nicely exaggerated in this sketch.

When the sales team brings an engineer into a final sales meeting as an "expert" reference to help put the client at ease and close the deal, the engineer knows he's really just there to say, "Yes, we can do that," regardless of the glaring truth... (via...

27/03/2014

Do you have a brilliant idea for an app? Or are you a developer who runs into 'people with a brilliant idea' a bit too often? Join my interactive session on closing the gap between ideas and IT on Wednesday April 2nd at Appsterdam. http://www.meetup.com/Appsterdam/events/166139382/

Lecturer Marion de Groot Lecture Topic I have an idea! - The gap between ideas and IT Lecture Abstract The gap between ideas and IT is often underestimated, but well known to those involved in softw

04/03/2014

The 2014 roadshow continues:
- March 5 @ JCI in Business, Delft
Subject: So you want an app? Are you sure?
More info: http://www.jci-inbusiness.nl/

- April 2 @ Appsterdam, Amsterdam
Subject: The gap between people with an idea and its development
More info to come

- May 24 @ Begaafd in Contact
Subject: Chinese characters for kids
More info: http://begaafdincontact.nl/kinderconferentie.html

- May 28 - 30 @ DevConFu, Jurmala, Latvia
Subject: The Strain of Scrum and Specs
More info: http://devconfu.eu/

JCI In Business

06/02/2014

The new Pick my Brain website is live! Check it out on www.pickmybrain.eu.

Opdrachtgever De opdrachtgever wil een website of applicatie. Pick my brain zorgt ervoor dat alle eisen en wensen worden meegenomen, zodat het eindresultaat aan de verwachtingen voldoet. Ook geeft pick my brain CMS-trainingen.

28/01/2014

Today Tjeko Fun Village picked my brain! We were a match at the Meet&Match event by JCI de Delflanden, and today we brainstormed on their idea for a new app. I'm looking forward to seeing the results come true!

20/01/2014

Are you into IT and looking for inspiration? This week's Wednesday and Thursday there will be free GOTO nights in Amsterdam and Eindhoven, where I'll be talking about Scrum and Specs: http://gotocon.com/amsterdam-2014/upcomingevents/

GOTO Amsterdam is a vendor independent international software development conference with more that 50 top speaker and 500 attendees. The conference cover topics such as Java, Open Source, Agile, Architecture, Design, Web, Cloud, New Languages and Processes.

08/01/2014

Je hebt een idee, of een klant met een idee, voor een app, website of applicatie. En dan? Dan moet het alleen nog even gebouwd worden, toch? Maar wat is de eerstvolgende stap? En waarom is het ene ding heel duur en het andere goedkoop?

In mijn workshop op de Monday Meetup bij Seats2meet in Utrecht vertel ik je alles over hoe je van een goed idee naar een werkende oplossing in de IT komt. Zie ik je daar?

https://events.seats2meet.com/event/5054/Monday_Meetup_27_januari

Hoe creëer je impact, hoe maak je het zichtbaar? Hoe meet je impact? Een ingewikkeld thema, zeker voor sociale ondernemers! Tijdens deze meeting verkennen we nieuwe methodieken, gaan we in gesprek en zetten we samen onze tanden in dit thema. Iedereen gaat naar huis met een dosis inspiratie, praktisc...

17/12/2013

"We don't need specifications, we do Scrum!" These and similar remarks I often hear as a requirements analyst. In this presentation I explain why it is still important to think about what you're going to do (next), and how this can be done in an Agile way.
http://www.slideshare.net/MarionDeGroot/scrumvs-specs-en

As a requirements analyst I often hear 'Oh we don't do specifications, we do Scrum!' Although fewer specs are needed in a true Scrum environment with an experie

16/12/2013

Do you have a brilliant product idea that needs to be developed? Then you might be(come) a Product Owner! So what are the responsibilities of a Product Owner? Here's a very clear video that explains what a Product Owner is and does. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=502ILHjX9EE

This is basically a 1 day product ownership course compressed into 15 minute animated presentation. There's obviously more to product ownership than this, so...

27/08/2013

Stimulating girls to become engineers with a building toy.

From Debbie Sterling’s TEDxPSU talk, "Inspiring the next generation of female engineers." Sterling is the creator of GoldieBlox, a set of toys featuring Goldie, a female engineer who guides girls to...

09/08/2013

I'll be talking about Agile Functional Design at Appsterdam next Wednesday. Will I see you there?
http://www.meetup.com/Appsterdam/events/128193442/

This week we have Marion de Groot, who will speak about Agile Functional Design. Agile is in fashion and Scrum is the way to go. "No more of those boring, endless specifications!" It sounds

01/08/2013

Pick my Brain on Women in technology: Are you underestimating your technical skills?

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. Our event is called TEDxAmsterdam, where x=independently organized TED event. At our TEDxAmsterdam event, TEDTal...