By 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...
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Questions on smart use cases. Part I - Estimating user-goal and sub-function level use cases
1CommentAs 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. Of course, Java, .NET, BI projects apply smart use cases, but this...
Read moreWhat’s unified about Unified Communications?
On paper it sounds like a great idea, and vendors have been keeling over themselves to sell products and services that promise to deliver an idealised Unified Communications concept, but in reality one can’t help but wonder if it actually delivers...
Read moreWeekly digest of week 50 2009
By Rick Mans
This week John Cleese with interesting insights on how he puts his mind to work while he sleeps, Americans consuming 34 Gigabytes per day, a study of 600.000 Facebook fan pages and Google showing us the future.. 12 Adoption Strategies for Web ...
Read moreLinked Data in the Public Sector – Not as Easy as it Sounds
A few months ago, in a blog post, our CTO opined that it was ‘time to return to the Semantic Web again’. As a testament to this, the government has been engaging with Linked Data developers in order to open up data held in public sector...
Read moreWhy do I Polish my Shoes - Or, Welcome to the Reputation Society
By jarnold
I've published several blog entries over the last few months about the Jericho Forum's Collaboration Oriented Architecture and its associated contract lifecycle. The contract lifecycle describes how the participants in a contract always go through a...
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By Rick Mans
This week insight on how HTML5 will change the way you use the web, Google offering DNS services, Open APIs and Reputation-based security. What Does it Mean to “Buy” an E-book? About what one actually purchases when one buys and e-book. The...
Read moreLeaning ITIL Processes
In the tradition of mass production, ITIL processes tend to become administrative burdens aimed at getting the SLA numbers right, in stead of doing what they're supposed to achieve. Batching incident tickets, or RfCs in systems and meetings,...
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