Het institutionaliseren van agile

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Er is een anti-patroon op het gebied van agile dat me nauw aan het hart gaat. En dat is de institutionalisering van agile.

In de afgelopen vijftien jaar heb ik met veel plezier en inzet organisaties en projecten gecoacht op weg om agile worden. In die vijftien jaar heb ik ongelooflijk veel geleerd, over software ontwikkeling, over programmeren, over processen, over het doen van projecten maar misschien vooral over de mensen in die projecten, en hoe deze mensen samenwerken. En het moet gezegd worden, ieder mens is uniek, iedere samenwerking is uniek, en vooral daardoor, los van alle technieken en technologie, is ieder project anders.

Handboeken agile

Nu zijn we op een punt in de tijd beland dat agile populairder is dan ooit, en waarschijnlijk zelfs populairder is dan het ooit in de toekomst nog gaat worden. We zijn op het punt dat alle grote organisaties hun software ontwikkeling gaan veragiliseren. Dit is het punt in de tijd waarop meer en meer projecten agile worden uitgevoerd. En dit is daarom ook het punt in de tijd dat grote organisaties gaan vastleggen hoe agile projecten dienen te worden uitgevoerd.


Handboek agile in zes delen

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Death by Dogma versus Agile Assembly

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On November 3, 2011 I presented the keynote of the Agile Open Holland Conference in Dieren. During this challenging talk I discussed the current state of affairs in agile organizations and projects and the effects of the recent strong rise in popularity of agile approaches. Let’s put it mildly: there’s a lot of work to be done.

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Flower-Power Agile Fluffiness

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To all the dear people in the agile community and to the faint-hearted: this will not be an easy blog post. There was a time when being a software developer was a decent craft, requiring decent craftsmanship and yes also a lot of creativity, some communication, some collaboration. Still it was a decent craft. The waterfall-ish methodologies we used weren’t extremely optimal, but at least software development was a craft. Similar to a carpenter who uses his tools to craft new furniture, or a industrial designer using his tools to come up with a new model Toyota – I know this is not the best example, but at least I now have the attention of the kind folks in the lean community. And then came agile.

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Scrumdamentalists and crusaders

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After having promoted agile and iterative approaches to software development projects for over a decade, I finally find that, like Bob Dylan says, the times they are a-changing. And for the better. Many small and large organizations and enterprises are now turning towards agile approaches, often to compensate for years and years of failing projects. You might suggest that all’s well that ends well . But…

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How Smart Use Cases Can Drive Web Development. Video for session at DevDays 2011 [in Dutch]

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as the Channel 9 website says: using real-life code examples Sander will demonstrate how to model, generate and build smart use cases and introduce the positive impact smart use cases have on your layered software architecture.

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Describing (smart) use cases using Enterprise Architect 8. Part II – Use case scenarios and structured specifications

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Enterprise Architect by Sparx Systems is a commonly used modeling tool, targeted at modeling UML and BPMN diagrams. One of the most frequently used diagrams is the use case diagram. A use case diagram consists mainly of actors and use cases, either traditional or smart use cases.

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Describing (smart) use cases using Enterprise Architect 8. Part I – Templates and validations

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Enterprise Architect by Sparx Systems is a commonly used modeling tool, targeted at modeling UML and BPMN diagrams. One of the most frequently used diagrams is the use case diagram. A use case diagram consists mainly of actors and use cases, either traditional or smart use cases.

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A book on pragmatic software architecture, patterns and frameworks?

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One of the major items on my wish list – that is on the professional half of it – is to write a book that displays my ideas on software architecture, patterns and frameworks. Yes I know, there are many books on software architecture, and there are many books that explain patterns, and yes there also are a lot of books that show you how to work with framework A, B or C.

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