Service oriented architecture

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By shoogend at 8 June, 2010, 6:00 pm

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 consider myself an enterprise architect, and explained that upfront, they were eager [...]

Smart use case stereotypes in service oriented projects

By shoogend at 4 February, 2010, 12:59 pm

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 Sharepoint projects, business intelligence, service oriented projects and even SAP implementations. Stereotypes [...]

December 1, 2009. Talk “An introduction to agile SAP SOA”

By shoogend at 30 November, 2009, 10:38 pm

Customer presentation, Eindhoven. After Twan van den Broek (of Ciber) and I succesfully applied a great mix of agile software development processes and techniques, including Scrum, Smart, smart use cases, smart estimation in probably the first agile SAP SOA projects in the Netherlands, we’ve held several talks on the subject at conferences and seminars, including [...]

Identifying services we might need in the future but don’t know right now?

By shoogend at 27 November, 2009, 1:23 pm

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 [...]

November 25, 2009. Talk “Shaping service oriented projects using smart use cases”

By shoogend at 25 November, 2009, 2:27 pm

Landelijk Architectuur Congres 2009, NBC Nieuwegein. As a consequence of a succesful duo-talk at the Integrate Agile conference in the spring, Twan van den Broek (of Ciber) and I where invited to present the same material at the Landelijk Architectuur Congres (LAC 2009), however split into two separate talks. Twan will focus much more on [...]

Service georienteerde projecten vormgeven met smart use cases [In Dutch]

By shoogend at 24 November, 2009, 12:14 pm

This post was originally written to be published as a chapter in an upcoming book on IT architecture. The book will be presented at the Landelijk Architectuur Congres 2009 in Nieuwegein, The Netherlands. This post will likely also be published in two parts in Software Release Magazine. Ondanks dat ik inmiddels al zo’n twintig jaar [...]

Serviceorientatie vormgeven met smart use cases [In Dutch]

By shoogend at 23 November, 2009, 5:21 pm

October 22, 2009. Panel. “Agile Development and Service-Orientation: Can They be Successfully Combined?”

By shoogend at 22 October, 2009, 1:22 pm

International SOA Symposium, World Trade Center, Rotterdam. (www.soasymposium.com) On October 22 and 23, 2009 the second international SOA Symposium will take place at the World Trade Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Just coming out of a highly successful agile SAP service oriented project (likely the first in it’s type in the Netherlands or even a [...]

October 22, 2009. Talk. “Mission impossible? Applying Agile to the World of SOA and ERP”

By shoogend at 22 October, 2009, 1:12 pm

October 20. Talk. “Shaping service oriented projects using smart use cases”

By shoogend at 20 October, 2009, 1:42 pm

SDC Conference, Papendal, Arnhem (www.sdc.nl) Next week the annual SDC conference will take place at Papendal, Arnhem. As usual the organising SDN community has put together a long list of international appraised speakers, and challenging subjects on the matter of software development and software architecture. A bit to my surprise, this year I was [...]