Crisis
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 [...]
Read More >>Trojan rigidity. Agile anti-patterns (I)
By shoogend at 26 March, 2009, 9:45 pm
One of the characteristics of most traditional – linear, waterfall – styled organizations is the extremely rigid execution of their software development projects . “Our handbook says we need to fill in this form, so that’s what we do guys.” People is these projects live by the blind assumption that whoever invented or wrote down [...]
Read More >>So much to write, so little time
By shoogend at 4 February, 2009, 11:52 am
It’s too bad there’s only 24 hours in a day. There are so many ideas in my head that I still have to write down, that I have to make a (short) list now to keep my head from exploding. So here it is: White paper on how to do agile SAP projects using smart [...]
Read More >>Why Newton was agile and the Titanic was not
By shoogend at 16 January, 2009, 10:38 am
Let’s be perfectly clear about one thing: 2009 will not only be known as the year the financial crisis hits in hard, it will also be known as the year everything turned agile. Please allow me to explain. The times when banks, insurance companies, car industries and the likes could start up multi-million software development [...]
Read More >>Calvin & Hobbes metaphor for financial crisis
By shoogend at 2 January, 2009, 12:24 am
Calvin & Hobbes is one of my favorite comic strips of all time. Funny and so well drawn. I was already convinced of the sheer genius of creator Bill Watterson – and now his work proves of predictive character as well. This fifteen years old Calvin & Hobbes Sunday comic strip illustrates a very fine [...]
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