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Spring 2010 speaking engagements

By shoogend at 15 March, 2010, 12:44 am

Again doing a lot of talks this spring on a wide range of subjects, from new technology, via enterprise agile to model driven development, but also about smart use cases, domain driven design, UML, and software architectures, design patterns, frameworks and .NET. This season’s highlights? Not a difficult choice: doing talks both at Microsoft DevDays [...]

October 26, 2009. Three lectures. “Software development methodologies and techniques through the years”

By shoogend at 5 November, 2009, 4:22 pm

Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. Earlier this year I was invited by prof. Arno Oosterhaven to do a series of lectures on software development at the post-doctoral program IT Auditor at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. The audience of IT Auditors is very mixed, ranging from accountants to actual software developers, which makes it difficult to address [...]

October 8-9, 2009. Workshop. “Pragmatic modeling using UML and beyond”

By shoogend at 8 October, 2009, 9:28 pm

IT Works, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Antwerp, Belgium I will present an intense two day workshop in the Crowne Plaza in Antwerp. During this workshop I follow the pragmatic modeling approach presented in my book with the same title. During this highly interactive workshop participants will learn how the various modeling techniques from UML and beyond [...]

October 5, 2009. Talk. “Pragmatic model driven development”

By shoogend at 5 October, 2009, 11:05 pm

Capgemini BAS, Faustlaan, Apeldoorn. With Capgemini BAS joining Capgemini in 2009, some new initiatiaves in model driven development opened up, more particularly, hoping I’ve interpreted it correctly, based on naterual language. I discussed this initiative in June with Freek Bosch, manager of the unit where this natueral langauge based approach originated. During the same inspriing [...]

Writing better software faster

By shoogend at 5 October, 2009, 10:53 pm

Published in my Interesting Things column in SDN Magazine, November 2009. Looking back on twenty years of software development, I must have spent most of that time trying to improve the quality and productivity of software development. Ever since I started to write small applications in Turbo Pascal in 1988 I got infected with the [...]

September 30 & October 1, 2009. Workshop. “Pragmatic modelling with UML”

By shoogend at 30 September, 2009, 3:10 pm

Array Seminars, Amrâth Hotel Lapershoek, Hilversum I will present an intense two day workshop in Hilversum that follows the pragmatic modeling approach presented in my book with the same title. During this highly interactive workshop participants will learn how the various modeling techniques from UML and beyond connect. Learn everything about (smart) use cases [...]

Pragmatic model driven development. Part I. Code generation scenario’s

By shoogend at 4 September, 2009, 3:12 pm

Note. This series of posts is also published as a Capgemini group white paper and published in Software Release Magazine (in Dutch, in two parts). With the economy at a low point in time, organizations and project are clearly resetting their goals. Long term multimillion projects are being halted, in favor of short, agile projects, [...]

Some of my talks in 2007

By shoogend at 24 July, 2009, 11:24 am

Pragmatic model driven development .Net using use cases Guest lecture at Hogeschool InHolland, Alkmaar, Netherlands. December 21, 2007 Informal guest lecture for students graduating this year. Likely subjects are software architecture, patterns, modeling and implementing smart use cases. Project anti-patterns Talk at Javapolis, Antwerp, Belgium. December 12, 2007 Presented my well known talk on project [...]

Slide deck on Pragmatic model driven development at J-Spring

By shoogend at 15 April, 2009, 12:39 pm

Model driven development has a promise of high productivity. However, many approaches fail to deliver. Sander Hoogendoorn (Capgemini) and Rody Middelkoop (Avisi) will present a very pragmatic approach to model driven development, based on modeling smart use cases and domain models in UML. The speakers elaborate enthusiastically on this approach and the techniques used, and [...]

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 [...]