Agile SAP

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 [...]

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 [...]

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

December 10, 2009. “Agile development in everyday practice”

By shoogend at 29 October, 2009, 10:23 am

IT Works, Hotel Pullman Brussels Airport, Diegem, Belgium (www.itworks.be) Although agile software development approaches, principles and techniques are slowly becoming more mainstream, it is still necessary to promote them for the larger part of the IT community and organizations. Together with my Belgian guest speaker Stefaan van Royen (now of BoonDoggle), who can talk very [...]

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

August 13, 2009. Talk “Smart use cases versus user stories”

By shoogend at 13 August, 2009, 9:55 am

Web team, Nederlandse Spoorwegen, Utrecht. A growing number of organization slowly migrate towards more agile approaches of their software development. When starting with agile, Scrum is still the most popular process around, with user stories as the preferred requirements technique. Although Scrum and user stories apply well to many web projects, when it comes to [...]

Checking for reusable services using smart use cases

By shoogend at 3 June, 2009, 9:54 am

In any project, and especially in projects that run under a tight schedule – as most projects do these days, it is helpful to list all elements that can possibly be (re)used to crank up your project, such as guidelines, documentation templates, existing components, (web) services, frameworks. This can best be done early on in [...]