Smart estimation

Questions on smart use cases. Part III – Stereotypes and minimal use case specifications

By shoogend at 17 December, 2009, 12:37 pm

As you might have heard from me before (endlessly), smart use cases are a fairly straightforward reqirements technique that we have introduced in many different types of projects, such as Java, .NET, BI, SOA, SAP projects. At times I receive question on smart use cases in projects, this time from Ron Kersic of Capgemini. See [...]

Questions on smart use cases. Part I – Estimating user-goal and sub-function level use cases

By shoogend at 16 December, 2009, 11:40 am

As you might have heard from me before (endlessly), smart use cases are a fairly straightforward reqirements technique that we have introduced in many different types of projects. Of course, Java, .NET, BI projects apply smart use cases, but this year I have also been involved in service oriented projects, where smart use cases where [...]

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

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 [...]

Implementing smart use cases. Guest lecture at Hogeschool Arnhem Nijmegen

By shoogend at 20 April, 2009, 1:14 am

In the second half of last year, I did a guest lecture at the Hogeschool Arnhem Nijmegen (HAN) in Arnhem on an invitation by lecturer Rody Middelkoop. I’m sorry but I can’t remember the exact date – only that I had an upcoming flue. Although if was a Friday afternoon, the audience was good, about [...]

Mission impossible? Applying agile to the world of SAP enterprise resource planning

By shoogend at 14 April, 2009, 10:15 pm

Early in March Twan van den Broek, SAP solution architect at TopForce, got in touch with me if I would be interested to coach an agile SAP project at a very large logistics organization. We have been using accelerators from our agile Accelerated Delivery Platform in SAP project before, including smart use cases, smart estimation [...]

Software estimation. Do I apply user stories or smart use cases?

By shoogend at 31 March, 2009, 11:42 pm

The process of creating a sound estimate for your project will take some time in any agile project. You will have to define what work to do in the project. In general this work can be split up into two parts: Project related work. There’s project related work, such as creating a project proposal or [...]