Archive for March, 2009

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 [...]

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 [...]

Hoe we herdefinieren herdefinieren [in Dutch]

By shoogend at 24 March, 2009, 12:59 pm

De voorpagina van de Computable van 20 maart is opgesierd met een prachtige foto van een uit een witte limousine stappend bruidje in een even witte bruidsjurk en prachtige borsten. Nieuwsgierig geworden naar het bijbehorende artikel, kom ik al snel tot de teleurstellende conclusie dat dit weer eens gaat over het mislukken van de gemeentelijke [...]

Outline for new pragmatic book on smart use cases

By shoogend at 22 March, 2009, 12:25 pm

We (my team and I and a lot of people that contributed from projects) have been working on the concept of smart use cases on and off over the last ten years. I think it was back in 1998 that we coincidentally started modeling use cases at bit different than was custom, in a workflow [...]

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, [...]

Navigating through the hypes, Software architectures and patterns to help avoiding your projects to crash – this year’s DevDays talk.

By shoogend at 18 March, 2009, 11:40 pm

Good to hear that I’ve made the program of this year’s Microsoft DevDays. Will be a challenging talk on software architecture and patterns, titled just like this blog post. Here’s the description. Hope you like it. Navigating through the hypes, Software architectures and patterns to help avoiding your projects to crash When it comes to [...]

Client/service architecture. Domain driven development in the distributed era. Episode IV

By shoogend at 9 March, 2009, 1:30 pm

Go to episode three. Go to episode two. Go to episode one. In case you’re wondering why doesn’t this dude come to his point, you’ve probably missed it. I’ve made it already. The point is: you should always have a single point of truth, and at most have it reproduced on the server side. Which [...]

Pragmatic model driven development in Java with smart use cases and domain driven design

By shoogend at 3 March, 2009, 11:33 am

In our Accelerated Delivery Platform we generate code from our standardized smart use cases and the domain model, using our Tobago MDA tooling. See www.accelerateddeliveryplatform.com for more details. In our daily practice we generate for a variety of architectures in the .Net space. For instance, we apply our own frameworks, or combine these with open [...]