18 lessons learned during the 6 year roller-coaster ride called Mendix

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Last week I gave a talk about the lessons learned during the exponential growth of our company the last six years. I was invited to to talk at the Appsterdam meetup in Delft about “growing pains”. In other words: what lessons did we learn when our company grew from 3 to 100 employees. I enjoyed the preparations as much as the actual talk, as it forced me to step back and think about the things we did and did not last years.

I covered lessons learned in four categories: company, culture, product development, and product evolution. Attempting to cover all these subject automatically means that you stay at a high level. However, I think I was able to share some valuable experiences from the trenches. It will be interesting to dive deeper in the separate categories in the future!

The slides:

Do you recognize these lessons? What are your most important lessons learned? If you have questions, don’t hesitate to ask them in the comments!

Enterprise Architecture Change is Coming. Are You Ready?

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There is an impending change coming. In many ways this change is being driven by the move into The Cloud, (the commoditization of IT) and the move to Bring Your […]

Developing data literacy: Informed Skeptics & Big Judgment — Active Information

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“At this very moment, there’s an odds-on chance that someone in your organization is making a poor decision on the basis of information that was enormously expensive to collect.”

This week on Active Information, I highlight a report from the Corporate Executive Board on building organizational capability for Big Data.

My post focuses on human capability, which the Corporate Executive Board refers to as Big Judgment. The data literacy aspect is from a synopsis of Tiffany’s training program.

The post: Developing data literacy: Big Data requires inform… – Input Output.
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Social Collaboration vs. Quiet Contemplation

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Roughly 20-30% of the population is acknowledged introverts and it’s no secret that IT has its fair share. One of the more famous is Steve Wozniak who dreamt up the first Apple computer in solitude. It’s highly unlikely that this quantum leap of imagination that changed the world would have bubbled to the surface in a boisterous brainstorming session. That’s because introverts like Wozniak excel in low-key environments and crave quiet to create, as Susan […]

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Gamification: Digging past the marketing hype

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Photo Credit: Christopher ChanOne of my first reactions when I heard about gamification was, isn’t this an old idea?  I have seen past examples of using game concepts to meet business objectives.  In fact, I was part of one such project, wh…

Gamification: Digging past the marketing hype

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Photo Credit: Christopher ChanOne of my first reactions when I heard about gamification was, isn’t this an old idea?  I have seen past examples of using game concepts to meet business objectives.  In fact, I was part of one such project, wh…