It can be important to read game instructions and understand how a game is played to fully enjoy the playing experience. It certainly is for... Scrum. Here are our game instructions that can help you judge whether it is a game suitable for you.The...
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What is good about Google Analytics APIs?
An API can be considered a channel to tap into a ‘black box’ resource with a set of defined specifications. It is the responsibility of the API implementer to ensure that the black box behaves as specified, as long as all required parameters are...
Read moreWhy do IT Projects fail? - a testers point of view.
We all know a project that has been ended before it actually went live or went way over budget. Why is this? So many professionals, so much knowledge and still there are a lot of major projects that don't seem to be on time, within budget and/or in...
Read moreThe Blending Philosophies of Lean and Agile
Some management philosophies should not be mixed. Because the unique flavor of the ingredients will get lost in the mix. As well as the benefits.Lean is a powerful but typical mindset (see The Power of Lean Thinking). But does that automatically...
Read moreGet me a SharePoint expert!
If only someone would give me a dollar (or at current rates preferably a euro) each time a customer asks us for a ‘SharePoint expert’. That’s like asking for someone who ‘knows about SAP’, or who ‘knows about technology’: it can have a...
Read moreHow frameworks can kill your projects, and patterns to help you avoid getting killed
When it comes to Microsoft .NET-connected development, more and more frameworks enter the market. Both from Microsoft and from open source. Think of ASP.NET MVC, Castle, Windows Workflow Foundation (WF), Entity Framework, Unity, Linq2SQL, ADO.NET...
Read morePowerPoint Architecture
It’s a mildly sunny April morning in 2002 when I park my car outside of a huge government agency office in a small suburban city near Utrecht. I am invited for a brainstorm session with the agency’s enterprise architects. Although I do not...
Read moreDeath by Landscape
Suppose you are in the IT department of a (very) large organization and have been developing systems for your organization for quite some years. Chances are that you will have a landscape of systems great and small that all serve a particular...
Read moreWeekly digest of week 20 2010
This week information about measuring ROI and on reporting marketing ROI to the C-Suite, why Facebook isn’t your friend, and why HTML5 vs Flash isn’t a war and why Flash won’t die. Facebook is not your friend If you care about your privacy and...
Read moreOracle BPM 11G, less is more
Oracle has just launched the 'new' Business Process Management Suite (BPMN). Though special as it is, it has just been announced as a patch set of the Fusion Middleware stack. There is a reason for that. Oracle has been working now for years to...
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