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Identifying services we might need in the future but don’t know right now?

By shoogend at 27 November, 2009, 1:23 pm

Earlier this week I attended the Landelijk Architectuur Congres in Nieuwegein. Besides the noteworthy percentage of attendees with mustaches, grey hair and ties, a pleasant and friendly event.
In the afternoon of the first day of the event I did a lively talk on shaping service oriented projects using smart use cases. During the talk [...]

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Smart use case stereotypes in service oriented projects

By shoogend at 4 February, 2010, 12:59 pm

Smart use cases are a great technique for specifying standardized requirements in many types of projects. Over the past few years we have smart use cases being modeled and written in projects using Java and .NET, as you might expect, but also in Sharepoint projects, business intelligence, service oriented projects and even SAP implementations.
Stereotypes [...]

Introducing our Agile Dashboard

By shoogend at 22 January, 2010, 10:36 am

The Accelerated Delivery Platform’s (ADP) Agile Dashboard is a pragmatic and publicly available tool (free) for managing project progress online. The Agile Dashboard was originally intended to manage progress for our agile projects, but these day it is used in a much broader perspective.
As the ADP Core Team receives a lot of questions about [...]

My weekly thoughts on Twitter

By aahoogendoorn at 10 January, 2010, 10:54 pm

New entry " Weekly digest of week 53 2009 / 2010: A happy 2010 for you all! Thi.. http://bit.ly/8TNPq5
" on Capping IT Off. #
Pfff. Took me 1/2 day but restored connection to VPN again. Cisco AnyConnect 2.3 does not work on Windows 7. So back to previous utility. #
Uninstalled Cisco VPN Client 5.0.3 and [...]

Beyond agile testing. Or: how to become a pro-active tester

By shoogend at 8 January, 2010, 10:56 am

Agile – in all it’s variations – becomes an increasingly popular process for realizing software. The roles testers and testing plays in these projects is challenging and new. Testers are no longer considered code-killers, but can play – and are expected to play – a very pro-active role in agile projects.
Although all agile process [...]

My weekly thoughts on Twitter

By aahoogendoorn at 3 January, 2010, 11:54 pm

Unsubscribed from Dr. Dobbs Journal. There's too much information to read anyway in the field of software development. #
New entry " Weekly digest of week 52 2009: In the last digest of 2009: A look a.. http://bit.ly/4rsmWg
" on Capping IT Off. #
New entry " Avatar, reuse and model driven software development:
Last week my.. http://bit.ly/5StRd0
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Avatar, reuse and model driven software development

By shoogend at 28 December, 2009, 12:57 pm

Last week my daughter Sam (13), her friend Joey and I went to see the movie Avatar in 3D at the IMAX theatre in Rotterdam. Following up on the hype and reading reviews I just got curious. Especially after reading an interview with director James Cameron, who previously directed Aliens and Titanic.
Being more than interested [...]

My weekly thoughts on Twitter

By aahoogendoorn at 27 December, 2009, 11:54 pm

RT @smartusecases. Smart Use Cases FAQ http://bit.ly/53pc9c #
The 3 stages of owning a computer. http://htxt.it/OGjn #
New entry " Questions on smart use cases. Part III – Stereotypes and minimal us.. http://bit.ly/7XwfdJ
" on Capping IT Off. #
Spent the morning looking at reusables from our distributed agile .NET projects. Discussed framework upgrades and smart use case [...]

My weekly thoughts on Twitter

By aahoogendoorn at 20 December, 2009, 11:54 pm

RT @tweetmeme December 1, 2009. Talk “An introduction to agile SAP SOA” http://bit.ly/84xtlk #
Writing on our new CSD division strategy document. Why do I always have trouble with these SharePoint Team Rooms we have? Need to check in. #
Order new Jack Johnson live album En Concert. #MyMusic. #
Of course I meant orderED (past tense) Jack [...]

Questions on smart use cases. Part III – Stereotypes and minimal use case specifications

By shoogend at 17 December, 2009, 12:37 pm

As you might have heard from me before (endlessly), smart use cases are a fairly straightforward reqirements technique that we have introduced in many different types of projects, such as Java, .NET, BI, SOA, SAP projects.
At times I receive question on smart use cases in projects, this time from Ron Kersic of Capgemini. See [...]

Questions on smart use cases. Part II – The smart use case life cycle

By shoogend at 17 December, 2009, 11:38 am

As you might have heard from me before (endlessly), smart use cases are a fairly straightforward reqirements technique that we have introduced in many different types of projects, such as Java, .NET, BI projects apply smart use cases, but also in service oriented projects, where smart use cases where used to model the front end [...]