When Capgemini launched a program for Lean Delivery of services and projects, the conscious choice was made not to mix it with other governance or management models. Just a clean implementation of Lean, respecting and applying its distinct...
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The explicit role of testing and testers in agile projects
Not all agile processes and approaches recognize the role of testing explicitly, other than stressing the importance of unit testing. However in short iterative projects, testing is key from day one. On of the agile approaches that does explicitly...
Read moreA recipe for enterprise agile. Mixing Scrum and Smart
To cut to the chase, those of you who have worked on enterprise or service oriented projects before already know this. These types of projects are characterized by a large number of organizational, functional and technically complicating factors....
Read moreThe end of Business as Usual is only the beginning (part 3)
In Part 1 of this series we introduced Vorpal Inc, a traditional company in the popcorn machines business, entering new markets by bringing some ‘Shadow IT’ into the light. In Part 2 we derived a generic approach from Vorpal’s service-oriented...
Read moreToo much thought will kill you
The design utopia in which consultancy firms and Dutch government agencies have been participating in for decades has been suprising me for a while now. What especially surprises me, is that the promise of a young discipline, Business Rules...
Read moreNew smart use case stereotypes for service oriented architecture
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...
Read moreIntroducing our agile dashboard
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...
Read moreBeyond agile testing. Or: how to become a pro-active tester
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...
Read moreQuestions on smart use cases. Part II - The smart use case life cycle
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...
Read moreQuestions on smart use cases. Part I - Estimating user-goal and sub-function level use cases
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. Of course, Java, .NET, BI projects apply smart use cases, but this...
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