This was the title of an event that I helped organize for my British Computer Society (BCS) branch last week in Central London, and which, as perhaps might be expected given the current economic climate, generated a fair amount of interest and...
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Agile rigidity
One of the characteristics of most traditional – linear, waterfall – styled organizations is the extremely rigid execution of their software development projects . “Our handbook says we need to fill in this form, so that’s what we do guys.”...
Read moreManual Test Tools – Can They Help?
As testers we have long wrestled with the tensions between the agile approach to projects and how we can use exploratory testing in a commercial project environment where we need to be able to provide test scripts as a deliverable to our customer and...
Read moreTwitter just died a little
Twitter is very close to be no fun at all anymore. Why? Because Twitter is going to be mainstream, because everybody joins Twitter and because Twitter is now something you can talk about with people at a bus stop and they know what you are talking...
Read moreApple to blame for the weak dollar?
For those of you who have somehow missed out on global news for the last 8 months or so this might come as a slight shock: the world economy has collapsed, and the value of the dollar is tumbling. Everyone has mainly been blaming the credit bubble...
Read moreDistributed microblogging
Microblogging has almost become a commodity in most (social) networks and has become a lot easier since almost each microblogging service has their own (open) API. The fact that you no longer need the interface defined by the network to microblog but...
Read more'IE8 is already obsolete'
As many of you might have noticed today Microsoft released Internet Explorer 8. Tristan Nitot (founder and chairman of Mozilla Europe) made the statement 'IE8 is already obsolete' in the podcast ICT Roddels (the podcast is Dutch in general, however...
Read moreiPhone OS 3.0 Unveiled…
...despite the recession, and along with the usual fanfare of a demo / presentation that set alight the whole infosphere, (i.e. blogosphere / twittersphere / and-all-other-web2.0-spheres). However, the one thing that sticks out the most for me is the...
Read moreFirefox as a netbook OS
I just read an interesting article on some design thoughts on why getting rid of the tabs in Firefox 3.2. You can read it here but the most interesting part of the article that triggered me to write this post is: “A full screen modus, where the...
Read moreFeatured job role: Enterprise Architect and Strategist
My favorite quote I ever heard at Capgemini is “this company needs more Lee’s”. Tadaaaam, and here I present you another one :-). I met Lee some time ago through Tim Kelly (Capgemini’s virtual worlds guru) and we started to talk on Twitter...
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