Modeling

Avatar, reuse and model driven software development

By shoogend at 28 December, 2009, 12:57 pm

Last week my daughter Sam (13), her friend Joey and I went to see the movie Avatar in 3D at the IMAX theatre in Rotterdam. Following up on the hype and reading reviews I just got curious. Especially after reading an interview with director James Cameron, who previously directed Aliens and Titanic. Being more than [...]

Serviceorientatie vormgeven met smart use cases [In Dutch]

By shoogend at 23 November, 2009, 5:21 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 [...]

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 23, 2009. Talk. “How Smart Use Cases Drive Service-Oriented Projects “

By shoogend at 23 October, 2009, 1:16 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 [...]

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 II. A pragmatic approach

By shoogend at 9 September, 2009, 9:40 am

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). In projects that are executed using the Accelerated Delivery Platform, Capgemini’s open knowledge platform for agile software development, a lightweight, pragmatic approach to model driven development is used. This [...]

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 [...]

Nice feedback on workshop Pragmatic modeling using UML [in Dutch]

By shoogend at 20 March, 2009, 12:23 pm

Sometimes when you work hard, you’re rewarded with nice feedback. Did a two-day workshop in Antwerp, Belgium two weeks ago, and received the following feedback from one of the participant. Really heart-warming. Sander Hoogendoorn is een zeer vlotte spreker met een zeer brede kennis in zowel agile als traditionele software ontwikkelmethodieken, software architectuur, design patterns, [...]