Talks

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 [...]

Beyond agile testing. Or: how to become a pro-active tester

By shoogend at 8 January, 2010, 10:56 am

Agile – in all it’s variations – becomes an increasingly popular process for realizing software. The roles testers and testing plays in these projects is challenging and new. Testers are no longer considered code-killers, but can play – and are expected to play – a very pro-active role in agile projects. Although all agile process [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]