Archive for May, 2009

Survey. Which frameworks do you use in .Net projects?

By shoogend at 25 May, 2009, 12:24 am

Later this week I will be doing a talk at the Microsoft DevDays conference at the Congrescentrum in Den Haag. This talk is titled Navigating through the hypes, Software architectures and patterns to help avoiding your projects to crash. Read more about it at www.devdays.nl. Please fill in the little survey I’m conducting at Survey: [...]

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The days are just packed. My talks in May and June 2009

By shoogend at 21 May, 2009, 9:23 am

The months May and June are notorious for the number of talks – as Rick van der Lans describes: May and June are speaker’s season. Just to remind me not to forget any of my upcoming talks, here’s a list: May 12. Project estimation with smart use cases. At Capgemini, Utrecht. Presentation at internal software [...]

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Measuring agile progress in smart use case points

By shoogend at 12 May, 2009, 7:39 pm

Smart use cases serve as a very good unit of work in agile projects. The agile process Smart relies on smart use cases, from start to end. Moreover, the progress in Smart projects is measured and managed using these use cases, and the associated straightforward estimation technique smart estimation. First cut smart use cases A [...]

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Delivering products in agile (Smart) projects

By shoogend at 12 May, 2009, 9:27 am

In most cases where a form of agile software development is applied, projects are challenged with difficult issues, such as a swaggering scope, unclear and incomplete requirements, unstable software architecture, are quickly approaching dead lines. Within these strict boundaries projects try to deliver high quality software at high productivity – or velocity. This is not [...]

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