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CreativITy

Why it is a sad thing when project are in the IT domain

March 9, 2010

IT projects are in the IT domain, just like Marketing projects are in the Marketing domain. Makes sense right? No, it doesn’t.
When we take a look at IT projects, we need to understand the fact that the only right of existence is the fact that we support business processes. This means that we need to [...]

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Forced Agility and the Leap Forward

March 8, 2010

Last friday and saturday we, at Whitehorses, had our yearly DeveloperDerby. This beautiful and fun race for developers is for our developers, by our developers. This year we had an actual client case of one of our beloved clients, Ricoh. And this is where it all changed…
In previous years we developed an application for a [...]

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The solution that is not the solution

March 6, 2010

If solutions are our business, why is it that there are often solutions implemented that aren’t really solutions at all? Or, at least, don’t actually solve a real and existing problem. It is strange that we all earn our money resolving challenges for business, yet we tend to stick with the familiar technology driven solutions. [...]

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Cleaning up (or the application of your lifetime)

February 26, 2010

Who wants to Live Forever? Great song. Not so great approach to Software Development though.
When we take a look at Software Development, you’ve probably noticed the situation that any app that has even been build, still is fully running today. At the beginning of the lifecycle of an application or system, we like to think [...]

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CreativITy: Analysis and Design. The Fontys Venlo Session

February 24, 2010

CreativITy – Fontys Venlo – Analysis And Design – 24 February 2010
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This morning I did a great session for the Software Engineering department and its student at Fontys Hogeschool in Venlo. It was a great and interactive session.
Lots of student already did some actual software development [...]

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What is in an Idea within Software Development?

February 24, 2010

Most Software Development Project start with the same thing: somewhere in an organization, someone gets an idea. And there’s where our challenge starts…
All ideas tend to have the same properties: there not specific, unmeasurable, it’s not clear if there achievable, there non-relevant and specifically: there not time-bound. In other words: there not SMART. And no: [...]

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