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Monthly Archives: November 2009
Weekly digest of week 48 2009
A weekly digest offered by Capgemini
On identiyfing services we might need in the future but don’t now right now
Earlier this week I attended the Landelijk Architectuur Congres in Nieuwegein. Besides the noteworthy percentage of attendees with mustaches, grey hair and ties, a pleasant and friendly event. In the afternoon of the first day of the event I did a lively talk on shaping service oriented projects using smart use cases. During the talk I recevied some very peculiar feedback! Bare with me. I addressed the possibilities smart use cases offer to model and …
EMC Momentum 2009. Primed for the future
This entry was written by Lee Smith. Lee works in the Information Management team within Technology Services in Capgemini UK, helping organizations to bring order to their unstructured content. Last week in Athens over a 1000 IT professionals assembled in the Greek capital of Athens for the annual Momentum conference, the primary event for the Content Management and Archiving (CM&A) division of EMC. The theme for this year was ‘Inspired by the past…Primed for the …
Andy Mulholland delivering insight at eGov 2009 conference in Sweden
The EU conference eGov 2009 just finished in Malmö. It has been two days filled with discussions and debates on the shape of the future e-government of the EU. The goals are lofty and ambitious in the accepted declaration and I look forward to seeing the visions be implemented. Capgemini was obviously there and Andy Mulholland, our own CTO, had a presentation yesterday and was interviewed afterwards. What are your comments?
Weekly digest of week 47 2009
A weekly digest offered by Capgemini
Use SCRUM to capitalize on naturally Agile teams
Every proposal is a unique piece of Agile work In companies like ours, Agile is not always easy to put in place. As we have strong contractual commitments with our clients, we need to define the clearest plan beforehand so that we can ensure that there are benefits on both sides before doing a project. That said, we already use Agile with many of our clients, even though most of our projects still use more …
Empowering through true mentorship
People who are able to empower others are becoming successful leaders and mentors.
Flexible organizations: by coordination & control or structure?
Robert is thought leader in the area of organizational flexibility, focusing on the area of business and IT
Does Agile mean no Processes and no Governance?
There are two generally held perceptions about agile. One, that agile is a kind of anarchist model with no processes, and second, that agile means no governance. Let’s look at the first perception that agile means no processes. We can understand how agile looks at need of processes by applying a well known principle called Occam’s razor which states that ” one should not increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of entities required to …
Weekly digest of week 46 2009
A weekly digest offered by Capgemini





