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November 16, 2007September 22, 2016Agile, Smart use cases

When to start design in an agile project

The big question in agile projects is when to start with the design and test design for a specific work item – in my case a smart use case? In traditional waterfall styled methodologies, analysis and design for the full project will be finished even before the first line of code is ever written. In agile projects, and in our […]

July 20, 2007September 22, 2016Agile, Smart use cases, Software architecture

Build by use case

On many projects, developers are included to build their software from the ground up, layer by layer. This is argumented by the developers stating that “we really need to build the database access layer first, otherwise we are unable to realize the domain layer”. So the software is built layer by layer. There is a big risk involved in building […]

July 6, 2007September 22, 2016Smart estimation, Smart use cases

How big is your project?

It is quite remarkable. Over the years I have gathered a lot of experience in use case modeling. That’s where smart use cases came from – if you want to know more on those, please read the book. Along with smart use cases comes a pragmatic and easy applicable estimation technique, which I’ve called smart estimation. With this technique every […]

July 4, 2007September 22, 2016Agile, Smart use cases

Agile SAP?

It’s half past five as I enter city hall in Rijswijk. I’m due at the Bouwstenenfabriek of the Department of Defence, which resides on the 9th and 10th floor. Invited along some Capgemini hot shots to give an inspiring presentation on innovative software development. At a practice meeting of one of our ASP practices. How about that. I always considered […]