Archive for July, 2009

June 2009

By shoogend at 24 July, 2009, 11:33 am

My talks in June 2009. June 3. Agile software development in everyday practice. Full-day seminar on doing agile projects for IT Works, Hotel Pullman, Diegem, Belgium. With guest speaker Stefaan van Royen, Mediamine. See www.itworks.be. June 9. Pragmatic .Net development. Full-day seminar on software architectures and patterns for .Net software development for Array Seminars, .NBC [...]

May 2009

By shoogend at 24 July, 2009, 11:29 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 [...]

Implementing smart use cases in agile projects

By shoogend at 24 July, 2009, 11:28 am

Guest lecture Hogeschool Utrecht, January 13, 2009 When asked who to invite for presenting a guest lecture, the students of the Hogeschool specifically requested for Sander. My lecture will be titled Implementing smart use cases in agile projects. Process, techniques, architecture and patterns. During this very interactive lecture Sander will speed through a wide variety [...]

Some of my talks in 2008

By shoogend at 24 July, 2009, 11:26 am

Smart use cases. Past present and future Keynote at Smart Use Case Conference, Capgemini Conference Center, Utrecht, Netherlands, May 28, 2008 Capgemini has organized an inspiring conference on the subjects of smart use cases. This event took place at Capgemini’s conference center in Utrecht. The large number of delegates witnessed talks on smart use cases, [...]

Some of my talks in 2007

By shoogend at 24 July, 2009, 11:24 am

Pragmatic model driven development .Net using use cases Guest lecture at Hogeschool InHolland, Alkmaar, Netherlands. December 21, 2007 Informal guest lecture for students graduating this year. Likely subjects are software architecture, patterns, modeling and implementing smart use cases. Project anti-patterns Talk at Javapolis, Antwerp, Belgium. December 12, 2007 Presented my well known talk on project [...]

Highway to hell? DevTweet: @mariannerd and @aahoogendoorn review code

By shoogend at 6 July, 2009, 9:26 am

The following conversation between Marianne and me will be published as our DevTweet column of SDN Magazine, issue 102. Listening to Black Sabbath’s Master of Reality. @aahoogendoorn Look at you… new avatar! Is that an AC/DC shirt? @mariannerd Howdy partner! It is AC/DC all right. Your avatar new too? Something wrong with the old one? [...]

Creative plumbing. Or: rethinking the construction metaphor for software development

By shoogend at 2 July, 2009, 12:57 am

For as long as I’ve been in this business, I’ve heard a lot of manager, project managers, architects and other non-coders compare software development to construction. In this metaphor the architect creates the design and hands it over to the contractor, who does the work. In this metaphor the creative parts ends with the architect [...]