Tools don't solve problems, thinking does
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London, United Kingdom. October 2014. Back to London to do two talks at the nice Software Architect 2014 conference. Topics this week are Proce$$es and fools over working software (tools in agile projects) and Designing microservices. See: http://software-architect.co.uk/
Helsinki, Finland. October 2014. Presented the closing keynote for this Capgemini DevDay software development event. Delivered a new talk about designing and building micro-services and micro-applications in an enterprise landscape, using smart use cases. The organizers have captured the feedback from my 90 minutes closing talk. Here it is: “Gave a lot to think about for when we’ll next have […]
Arnhem, The Netherlands. September 2014. The mission of the ASAS symposium is to fulfill the need for a dynamic platform for software architects. This platform is a place from where software architects, developers, requirements engineers and information analysts can share knowledge, discuss software architecture and meet their peers. During this third edition of ASAS I delivered a talk on pragmatic […]
Falmouth, Cornwall, UK. September 2014. Was invited to come to this lovely conference to do my Agile Anti-Patterns talk. Unfortunately due to personal reasons I could not make it to Agile On The Beach this year – hope to be there next year. http://agileonthebeach.com/
Nieuwegein, Netherlands. September 2014. Did one out of two talks at the Agile Holland Meetup around Real Agile Delivers Real Value, with Ben Linders as the other speaker. My talk was about the death of agile and was titled Beyond Breaking Bad. Beyond breaking bad. The state of agile in ten easy lessons from Sander Hoogendoorn
Utrecht. June 28 – Recently I was kindly invited by Capgemini in Wroclaw, Poland to do some talks, both for Capgemini internally as publicly, aimed at software architects and developers (and yes, testers too). These talks are now planned for July 1 (at Capgemini) and July 3 (publicly). Both talks will discuss the same subject, namely industrializing agile, which […]
Krakow, Poland. June 22014 PAM Summit is an international conference organized in Kraków (Poland) by PMI PC Kraków Branch and IIBA Poland Chapter. The aim of this conference is to exchange experiences between people not only working on projects but also interested in Business Analysis and Project Management. The organizers have invited me to do one of the keynotes. I […]
Cookham, UK. May 2014. On May 16, the next Enterprise Architect User Group event will be held at the Sir Bernard Miller Conference Centre, Odney Lane, Cookham, near Maidenhead. I will do the opening keynote at the event, with a talk titled Pragmatic agile model driven development using smart use cases. See also: www.eausergroup.com/events.
Zeist, Netherlands. March 2014. Did a high speed talk on Pragmatic Agile Model Driven Development using Smart Use Cases together with Robert de Wolff. See also: www.sdn.nl
On May 7 I will do the opening talk for an event on tooling in agile projects at Capgemini head offices in Leidsche Rijn, Utrecht. The title of this talk will be Individuals and interactions over proce$$e$ and fools. The first statement in The Agile Manifesto clearly favors individuals, teams, interaction and collaboration over processes and tools. But there’s as […]
London, UK. April 2014. Very proud to do the conference opening keynote of the largest independent software development conference in the UK on dogmatic agile. Also doing two tech talks on frameworks and Windows8 versus web development. See DevWeek 2014.
Utrecht, The Netherlands. February 2014. Will be co-presenting Pragmatic agile model driven development using smart use cases with Robert de Wolff (Fflowing). See EA User Group.
Munich, Germany. February 2014. Doing tech talk titled Crossing the chasm from web to Windows 8 development.
Vienna, Austria. January 2014. Will do talk titled Pragmatic agile model driven development using smart use cases. See Software Quality Days 2014.
Vilnius, Lithuania. December 2013. Doing agile anti-pattern talk. See Build Stuff 2013.
Arnhem, The Netherlands. November 2013 Doing the opening keynote. Agile anti-patterns. Yes your agile projects can and will fail too. See QNH DevDays.
Antwerp, Belgium. November 2013. Will do introduction to agile, and agile anti-patterns. See TI Conference Days.
Madrid, Spain. October 2013. Talk about frameworks and dependencies. See CodeMotion Madrid.
Berlin-Potsdam, Germany. October 2013 Will do 120-minute workshop titled Structured testing in agile projects using smart use cases. October 2013. See also Agile Testing Days 2013.
Kiev, Ukraine. October 2013. Will do the closing keynote with my How frameworks can kill your projects talk. And likely a free-format, no-slides talk on software architecture. See XP Days 2013.
Arnhem, The Netherlands. September 2013 Will do talk on agile anti-patterns. See also ASAS 2013.
Krakow, Poland. June 2013. Doing a workshop on agile and agile requirements titled Surviving long-running agile projects. Agile by example. See also PAM Summit 2013.
Bangalore, India. May 2013. I will deliver a keynote on offshore agile, and four talks at this very lively event. Great to go back! See also GIDS 2013.
Oxford, UK. April 2013. Doing my talk Death by dogma versus assembling agile. See also ACCU 2013
Zeist, the Netherlands. March 2013. Delivered talk on building web applications on top of a COBOL back end. Software architecture, patterns, code. See SDN Event March 2013.
The Hague, Netherlands. April 2013. Will do talk about building web applications in ASP.NET op top of COBOL. See TechDays 2013
Berlin/Potsdam, Germany. March 2013. My updated talk on agile anti-patterns, dogmatic agile and assembling agile. See also Agile Dev Practices 2013.
Munich, Germany. January 2013. Doing two talks. One on structuring testing in agile projects using smart use cases. And the other on frameworks. See OOP 2013.
Vienna, Austria. January 2013. Doing a talk about agile anti-patterns. See Software Quality Days 2013.
Arnhem, The Netherlands. December 2012. I’m on the program twice. Talking about structuring agile testing with smart use cases, and about how to survive long-running agile .NET projects. See SDC.
Kiev, Ukraine. November 2012. Will be doing my “famous” talk on agile anti-patterns as closing keynote to the XP Days Ukraine. See XP Days Ukraine 2012.
Antwerp, Belgium. November 2012. Will talk about agile and agile anti-patterns with the students of the Karel de Grote-Hogeschool in Antwerp. See TI Conference Days 2012.
Kharkov, Ukraine. November 2012. Again doing a keynote at this great event. But more: tried out a new talk on smart use cases and Windows 8 development. Also lectured at Kharkov University. See NETWork 2012.
Amsterdam, The Netherlands. November 2012. Will keynote this event with a talk on agile contracting. See Agile Consortium.
Utrecht, The Netherlands. October 2012. Talk about surviving long-running agile projects. Titled Agile by Example.
Arnhem, Netherlands. September 2012. Presenting closing keynote on agile architecture. See Agile Architecture Symposium.
Zurich, Switzerland. June 2012. Presenting a talk on agile anti-patterns. Some feedback: “Just wanted to say thanks for your talk at Jazoon. I just wanted to say that it was for me the best session there.” See JAZOON 2012.
Oxford, UK. April 2012. Presented two talks at ACCU on agile anti-patterns and on how frameworks can kill your projects. See ACCU 2012
Bangalore, India. April 2012. Presented five talks on topics such as smart use cases, service oriented architecture, agile anti-patterns, frameworks. See GIDS 2012.
Manchester, UK. March 2012. Did keynote for UX conference on dogmatic agile. See Camp Digital.