QWAN - Quality Without a Name

Our Services

Consultancy & mentoring

We take a holistic, systemic approach to grow your development organization. An effective software development organization needs to attend to technical skills, agile processes, team organization, and personal growth.

Training

We deliver courses on (agile) software development. Small groups, intensive courses, hands on, VERY interactive ... & fun!

Software development

Have we mentioned that we're software developers? We are. And we're passionate about the quality of our work. We believe that for sustainable development, we need state-of-the-art practices like test driven development, continuous integration and relentless refactoring.

Werken met Rob en Marc is een bijzonder geruststellende en inspirerende ervaring. Ze hebben in onze transitie naar een totaal nieuw systeem, nieuwe architectuur en een hernieuwde definitie van craftsmanship een cruciale rol gespeeld. Met hun unieke stijl vertalen ze hun verbluffende kennis en ervaring naar kleine stapjes en hebben ons daarin meegenomen op een manier dat we werkelijk het idee hebben dat we het zelf bedacht hebben. Wat dit betekent voor draagvlak en slagkracht moge duidelijk zijn. Zonder Rob en Marc was ons dit niet gelukt.

-Geert Bossuyt, delivery manager at ZorgDomein

Duurzaam Agile software ontwikkelen vergt niet alleen een Agile mindset, maar ook een Agile skillset. QWAN heeft ons geholpen om die te ontwikkelen. Niet door advies vanaf de zijlijn, maar door actieve participatie op het spelveld. Samen de handen vuil maken en lering trekken uit de praktijk. De ene keer door het stellen van coachingsvragen, de andere keer door het voorbeeld te geven of door het geven van instructie. Steeds wat nodig is om verder te groeien als ontwikkelaar en als team.

-Hans Kalle, development manager at RIGD-Loxia

At your TDD training course, I actually learned something! (comparing with other unit testing courses)

-A course participant

Very educational (as I expected); I can definitely apply this in my project

-A course participant

“This was the first training where I had:
- no problem to stay awake
- no problem with the afternoon "dip"
- no problem to stick to the subject
- no problem completing the exercises.

-A course participant

Our Blog

Practices are Patterns

06 October 2025

People try something in their team, it works great, and then they go out in the world trying to sell everyone on that practice. We’ve done this too when eXtreme Programming worked much better for us than expected in the early 2000s. When such a “best practice” goes out in the wild, it will work for some, but less so for others. So we end up with “Why you should do Test Driven Development (TDD)” versus “TDD does not work” positions.

Citcon 2025 - Continuous Improvement in Technology

29 September 2025

I made a last minute-ish decision to attend CITCON Friday night and Saturday. I don’t normally attend conferences on the weekend, as I prefer to spend time with family. But this was in my neck of the woods - it was in Woking, my side of London - only about 2 hr drive from Bath. And I thought it would be fun to see some people in real life, and possibly learn something. Since it is an open space conference, there is a fair chance that interesting topics turn up, in sessions and outside. I was not disappointed, to say the least. I also got a chance to run a zeroth session on Moldable Development.

Drawing Carousel workshop at XP Days Benelux 2025

17 September 2025

Rob Westgeest and Vera Peeters’ Drawing Carousel workshop has been accepted for XP days benelux. It runs before close on Friday 28 November in Kapellerput, Heeze, NL. QWAN’s sessions are bookending the programme, eXtreme Vibe coding is scheduled in the opening slot on Thursday.

Stigmergy at Work, XP Days Benelux 2023

04 September 2025

We found this draft while shuttding down stigmergy.blog. This workshop happened in November 2023. It got stuck in the draft box, because of perfectionism. Stigmergy is something that we take with us as we co-create systems of software and of work, but have not found other conferences or user groups to run the workshop at. A micro site for stigmergy was an experiment, it seems more productive to continue with Stigmergy here.