Archive for September, 2009

September 30 & October 1, 2009. Workshop. “Pragmatic modelling with UML”

By shoogend at 30 September, 2009, 3:10 pm

Array Seminars, Amrâth Hotel Lapershoek, Hilversum I will present an intense two day workshop in Hilversum that follows the pragmatic modeling approach presented in my book with the same title. During this highly interactive workshop participants will learn how the various modeling techniques from UML and beyond connect. Learn everything about (smart) use cases [...]

September 22, 2009. Workshop “Identifying, modeling and testing smart use cases”

By shoogend at 22 September, 2009, 11:31 am

Najaarsevent TestNet, NBC Nieuwegein (www.testnet.org) And now for something completely different. I will be doing a talk – or rather a short workshop at a test event, the TestNet najaarsevent in Nieuwegein. Many organizations rely on the concept of use cases to model and describe functional requirements. However, there are many different ways of identifying [...]

September 10, 2009. Keynote “Building better software faster”

By shoogend at 10 September, 2009, 12:14 pm

Customer event Capgemini, at Capgemini Papendorp. Together with a large customer Capgemini organizes a number of (non-public, sorry) knowledge sessions on Microsoft technology – aimed at developers, architects and project management. September 10 will be the first of those knowledge sessions, with talks on Microsoft Duet, Surface and Cloud / Azure. Preceeding those interesting stories [...]

Pragmatic model driven development. Part II. A pragmatic approach

By shoogend at 9 September, 2009, 9:40 am

Note. This series of posts is also published as a Capgemini group white paper and published in Software Release Magazine (in Dutch, in two parts). In projects that are executed using the Accelerated Delivery Platform, Capgemini’s open knowledge platform for agile software development, a lightweight, pragmatic approach to model driven development is used. This [...]

Pragmatic model driven development. Part I. Code generation scenario’s

By shoogend at 4 September, 2009, 3:12 pm

Note. This series of posts is also published as a Capgemini group white paper and published in Software Release Magazine (in Dutch, in two parts). With the economy at a low point in time, organizations and project are clearly resetting their goals. Long term multimillion projects are being halted, in favor of short, agile projects, [...]

September 3, 2009. Panel Discussion “Model Driven Development”

By shoogend at 3 September, 2009, 10:53 pm

Devnology Meeting, Atos Origin, Utrecht. On September 3, the Devnology community will organize a panel discussion on model driven development. The panel will consist of a number of expert from both practical and academic backgrounds. As you might have guessed, I’m a member of the panel – albeit probably not from the academic view point, [...]

De bug als feature (in Dutch)

By shoogend at 2 September, 2009, 11:23 pm

This column will be pulished in the September 2009 issue of Software Release Magazine (www.release.nl). Eind augustus gleed er een opvallende leaflet in mijn gloednieuwe brievenbus. Een leaflet van McDonalds. Niet dat ik daar normaliter veel acht op sla, maar deze trok mijn onverdeelde aandacht. “Ook Utrecht Leidsche Rijn heeft nu een eigen McDonalds. Uniek [...]