During SAP’s Sapphire events a major part of the message was around Usability. Traditionally, seen as functionally rich but unexciting, SAP and Usability are words that you would not normally put in the same sentence. But with the upcoming release...
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Agile business intelligence
Het besparen van kosten is een veelgenoemde aanleiding voor Business Intelligence (BI) projecten. Zo wilde een bekende overheidsinstantie weten hoe effectief de bestrijding van uitkeringsfraude was. Het onderzoeken van mogelijke fraude kost de...
Read moreManaging influences helps keeping project stability
A lesson learnt in the PMBOK perspective. When a project starts, there are usually a raw high level scope and an order of magnitude of cost. Generally, in the very first step, project managers focus in detailing these aspects and this rapidly...
Read moreThe Waterfall Dentist Anti-Pattern
Believe it or not, but I have a confession to make. I’m currently in a pure waterfall project. It’s my first in many, many years and despite the fact that I love the technology, I don’t like our way or working it a bit. During the first phase...
Read morePair Programming Is A Good Software Development Practice
Agile is not only about the ‘process’ we follow to build software products. Agility is not just achieved by following a method. Agile is also about the behavior we show while creating software products. But agile is certainly also about the...
Read moreTest Driven Development – The fun in unit testing
Most of us know we ought to have decent unit tests for our code. This holds true in just about any project, but possibly most so in agile ones. In agile, you want to deliver working software very frequently, want to practice emergent design, want to...
Read moreYes, we do Scrum. And...
Scrum is simple, yet not easy. Scrum Binary test The Scrum Guide describes the basic rules of the game of Scrum. You can easily detect whether you are doing Scrum. It takes no more than 9 questions. If you can answer every question with a...
Read moreAgility via Scrum (Contribution to 'Shaping Apps Capgemini Germany')
I recently contributed to the future vision and ambitions of Capgemini Germany with following text on the topic of Agile: Agility via Scrum Agility is a state, a way of being; of people and of organizations. It is not a process, it is not a method....
Read moreTransition to Agile (part 4): The relation with the Project Manager
I’m a couple of weeks further with the Agile transformation and wondering about my relation with some project managers in the organization. With some of them I build up a good relation and together we made good progress in starting up and manage...
Read moreThe Open Group Conference
This week’s quarterly Open Group conference in Washington DC, featured several thought provoking sessions around key issues / developments of interest and concern to the IT world, including: Security, Cloud, Supply Chain, Enterprise...
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