Archive for December, 2009

Avatar, reuse and model driven software development

By shoogend at 28 December, 2009, 12:57 pm

Last week my daughter Sam (13), her friend Joey and I went to see the movie Avatar in 3D at the IMAX theatre in Rotterdam. Following up on the hype and reading reviews I just got curious. Especially after reading an interview with director James Cameron, who previously directed Aliens and Titanic. Being more than [...]

My weekly thoughts on Twitter

By aahoogendoorn at 27 December, 2009, 11:54 pm

RT @smartusecases. Smart Use Cases FAQ http://bit.ly/53pc9c # The 3 stages of owning a computer. http://htxt.it/OGjn # New entry " Questions on smart use cases. Part III – Stereotypes and minimal us.. http://bit.ly/7XwfdJ " on Capping IT Off. # Spent the morning looking at reusables from our distributed agile .NET projects. Discussed framework upgrades and [...]

My weekly thoughts on Twitter

By aahoogendoorn at 20 December, 2009, 11:54 pm

RT @tweetmeme December 1, 2009. Talk “An introduction to agile SAP SOA” http://bit.ly/84xtlk # Writing on our new CSD division strategy document. Why do I always have trouble with these SharePoint Team Rooms we have? Need to check in. # Order new Jack Johnson live album En Concert. #MyMusic. # Of course I meant orderED [...]

Questions on smart use cases. Part III – Stereotypes and minimal use case specifications

By shoogend at 17 December, 2009, 12:37 pm

As you might have heard from me before (endlessly), smart use cases are a fairly straightforward reqirements technique that we have introduced in many different types of projects, such as Java, .NET, BI, SOA, SAP projects. At times I receive question on smart use cases in projects, this time from Ron Kersic of Capgemini. See [...]

Questions on smart use cases. Part II – The smart use case life cycle

By shoogend at 17 December, 2009, 11:38 am

As you might have heard from me before (endlessly), smart use cases are a fairly straightforward reqirements technique that we have introduced in many different types of projects, such as Java, .NET, BI projects apply smart use cases, but also in service oriented projects, where smart use cases where used to model the front end [...]

Questions on smart use cases. Part I – Estimating user-goal and sub-function level use cases

By shoogend at 16 December, 2009, 11:40 am

As you might have heard from me before (endlessly), smart use cases are a fairly straightforward reqirements technique that we have introduced in many different types of projects. Of course, Java, .NET, BI projects apply smart use cases, but this year I have also been involved in service oriented projects, where smart use cases where [...]

My weekly thoughts on Twitter

By aahoogendoorn at 13 December, 2009, 11:54 pm

Spent this morning with a customer in Utrecht modeling a form-based business process in smart use cases. Customer (and end users) happy. # Cool! You can see our house on Google Street View (and even our cars). http://htxt.it/cuyq # RT @scottgu ".. been doing a really focused perf push on VS10 the last few weeks [...]

My weekly thoughts on Twitter

By aahoogendoorn at 6 December, 2009, 11:54 pm

Have a look inside Microsoft's Labs! http://htxt.it/IORI # Cool. ROM Update for my HTC Touch Diamond 2 to Windows Phone 6.5 is available. http://htxt.it/4sPI # Stuck in traffic on my way to visit customer in Amsterdam. Will take train tomorrow. # Spent half the morning circling Amsterdam because all those "lovely" little streets were blocked [...]