Tools don't solve problems, thinking does
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 […]
On March 10 and 11 I will present an intense two-day workshop on the pragmatic use of UML modeling techniques (and beyond) with lots of hands-on exercises for Array Seminars. Of course this workshop will cover smart use cases, domain driven design, service orientation and many other modeling techniques. donderdag, maart 10, 2011 All Day Workshop pragmatic modeling using UML […]
On March 3 and 4 I will present the 33th (!) edition of an intense two-day workshop on the pragmatic use of UML modeling techniques (and beyond) with lots of hands-on exercises. Of course this workshop will cover smart use cases, domain driven design, service orientation and many other modeling techniques. Participants modeling activity diagrams with smart use cases donderdag, […]
During this intensive and highly interactive full day seminar Belgian guest speaker Stefaan van Royen and I will cover a wide range of subjects on agile software development, including why waterfall doesn’t work, agile key characteristics, agile processes, Scrum, Smart, XP, and enterprise agile projects. Guest speaker Stefaan van Royen (TomTom) dinsdag, februari 15, 2011 2:00 Agile development in everyday […]
[Half-day interactive session at client in Wageningen] This is the last session in a series of half-day interactive training sessions I did this year for the developer community of a client in Wageningen. Over the year I’ve have addressed and discussed topics such as agile versus waterfall, service oriented architecture, software architecture, smart use cases, software estimation, design patterns, dependency […]
[Half-day training course at government agency, Apeldoorn] Smart use cases are quickly becoming a widely adopted standard for modeling requirements in various types of software development projects. Alongside with the modeling approach to smart use cases, estimating software development projects using smart use cases is also quickly gaining popularity. An example of how project progress can be tracked using smart […]
On November 29 I will be doing a series of three lectures for the IT audit program at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, introducing the students to the processes, concepts and techniques of software development, as they will most likely be auditing (software development) projects later during their career. During the second lecture I will address a variety of analysis […]
On November 29 I will be doing a series of three lectures for the IT audit program at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, introducing the students to the processes, concepts and techniques of software development, as they will most likely be auditing (software development) projects later during their career. During the first lecture I will go through the history of […]
[Two day hands-on workshop at IT Works, Hotel Crowne Plaza, Antwerp. ] On November 25 and 26 I will present the 32th edition of an intense two-day workshop on the pragmatic use of UML modeling techniques (and beyond) with lots of hands-on exercises. Participants modeling activity diagrams with smart use cases During this workshops we will go through the following […]
[One day seminar on agile software development for Array Seminars in Hotel Lapershoek in Hilversum] During this intensive one day seminar Belgian guest speaker Stefaan van Royen and I cover a wide range of subjects on agile software development. Guest speaker Stefaan van Royen (TomTom) The following subjects where on the program: Why waterfall won’t work. Agile manifesto. Agile key […]
Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. Earlier this year I was invited by prof. Arno Oosterhaven to do a series of lectures on software development at the post-doctoral program IT Auditor at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. The audience of IT Auditors is very mixed, ranging from accountants to actual software developers, which makes it difficult to address all interests of the students. […]
IT Works, Hotel Pullman Brussels Airport, Diegem, Belgium (www.itworks.be) Although agile software development approaches, principles and techniques are slowly becoming more mainstream, it is still necessary to promote them for the larger part of the IT community and organizations. Together with my Belgian guest speaker Stefaan van Royen (now of BoonDoggle), who can talk very lively on implementing Scrum and […]
Array Seminars, Hotel Amrath Lapershoek, Hilversum (www.arrayseminars.nl) Although agile software development approaches, principles and techniques are slowly becoming more mainstream, it is still necessary to promote them for the larger part of the IT community and organizations. Together with my Belgian guest speaker Stefaan van Royen (now of BoonDoggle), who can talk very lively on implementing Scrum and Smart, I’ve […]
IT Works, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Antwerp, Belgium I will present an intense two day workshop in the Crowne Plaza in Antwerp. During this workshop I follow 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) […]
Capgemini BAS, Faustlaan, Apeldoorn. With Capgemini BAS joining Capgemini in 2009, some new initiatiaves in model driven development opened up, more particularly, hoping I’ve interpreted it correctly, based on naterual language. I discussed this initiative in June with Freek Bosch, manager of the unit where this natueral langauge based approach originated. During the same inspriing conversation I illustrated the pragmaitc […]
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 and start working directly with UML […]
Web team, Nederlandse Spoorwegen, Utrecht. A growing number of organization slowly migrate towards more agile approaches of their software development. When starting with agile, Scrum is still the most popular process around, with user stories as the preferred requirements technique. Although Scrum and user stories apply well to many web projects, when it comes to handling large, service-oriented projects, in […]