Archive for April, 2009

The iteration cycle of an agile Smart project

By shoogend at 22 April, 2009, 12:48 pm

Smart is an easy to implement agile process, that is essentially smart use cases driven. Although Smart mixes very well with other agile processes and techniques, such as Scrum, XP and FDD, the process that takes a project through a little more ceremony than you might expect from a number of other agile processes. For [...]

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 [...]

One of the boys. Women in technology

By shoogend at 17 April, 2009, 4:59 pm

Suffers from writers block! Have to finish my column for the @SDNMagazine “Women in Technology” issue. @mariannerd Still struggling with the subject? I handed in my "regular" column – not dealing with WIT. When’s the final deadline? @aahoogendoorn I woke up this morning with an idea. deadline was 13/4, for columns it’s a bit easier. [...]

Slide deck on Pragmatic model driven development at J-Spring

By shoogend at 15 April, 2009, 12:39 pm

Model driven development has a promise of high productivity. However, many approaches fail to deliver. Sander Hoogendoorn (Capgemini) and Rody Middelkoop (Avisi) will present a very pragmatic approach to model driven development, based on modeling smart use cases and domain models in UML. The speakers elaborate enthusiastically on this approach and the techniques used, and [...]

Talk at J-Spring conference. Pragmatic model driven development using smart use cases and domain driven design

By shoogend at 15 April, 2009, 8:51 am

Today Rody Middelkoop, senior technology consultant at Avisi and lecturer at the HAN and I will do an amusing talk at the J-Spring Conference in Bussum on model driven development, using a highly pragmatic approach. Talk includes a live demo where we will build a Java web application on stage in a few minutes (the [...]

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 [...]

Agile and Scrum anti-patterns. Wildcard proposal DevDays 2009

By shoogend at 10 April, 2009, 10:56 am

After a dozen years of promoting and evangelizing agile software development in the current years of economic unpredictability a breakthrough in applying agile processes and techniques is emerging. But with the rising popularity of Scrum, MSF Agile, OpenUP, Smart, XP, Lean, FDD and the likes, it’s not only success stories any more. Similar to failing [...]

Some tips on running distributed agile projects

By shoogend at 10 April, 2009, 10:22 am

I started using Twitter – no, this is not another post about Twitter – to investigate if it could help me innovate. And guess what, it kind of helps. Since I started writing tweets around the agile SAP SOA project I’m coaching, people started showing interest, and asking questions. Last week I received to following [...]