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

Working with User Story Mapping

24 October 2025

User Story Mapping is one of our favourite practices that we often use with clients and in courses. User Story Mapping is an agile product planning practice, with its roots in user centered design. It has been popularized by Jeff Patton.

A view to a vibe 2 - you better stop (building tools)

22 October 2025

Building your own tools is kind of addictive. Once we learn how to make productive tools, it can be hard to stop. There is much to see in a code base. But as we learned from using static analysers to find code smells in the past, you want just enough information for what you are doing right now.

A view to a vibe - investing in keeping, fixing or binning vibe-engineered code

13 October 2025

Since April, I’ve been experimenting more intensively with augmented code generation, quite often with a clear-ish vision, a pair, tests and other of our favourite engineering practices.

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.