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

Four types of knowledge in development - introduction

25 November 2025

Software delivery is knowledge intensive work. We are continuously learning, about the problems we’re solving, about our users and customers, about how we can work more productively. We are building up knowledge in multiple areas, but we are not always good at keeping knowledge or making most use of it. Take working with legacy code for example, which often feels like a process of archaeology, rediscovering long forgotten knowledge.

What do you need to see to make better decisions?

18 November 2025

I am running a session at the Swindon Developers meetup this Thursday at 6:30PM *. There are still some places available, so join me and register now. In this session I will demonstrate how we make better decisions by making results of work visible through tools that we built for the questions we have. The title evolved from a discussion with the organiser, Sean Moir.

Embracing unintended consequences

08 November 2025

Why and when do we introduce a new practice? We see a colleague, friend, and/or influencer telling success stories about it. Eager to get the benefits, we start out experimenting and learn how well it is living up to our expectations. We also start seeing other unanticipated effects — distractions, anomalies? Or learning opportunities? In this post we advocate for embracing unintended consequences.

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.