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CreativITy

CreativITy and the Pragmatic Project

June 13, 2010

CreativITy – Fontys Venlo – The Pragmatic Project – 26 May 2010 View more presentations from Douwe Pieter van den Bos. The principles of Agile Software Development are known to most of us, but how we put them into action can be the tough challenge. At the second session I had on CreativITy at the [...]

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IT Project misstep: To Serve and Protect

May 26, 2010

At this very moment I’m waiting to give one of my lectures at Fontys Hogeschool on Venlo. A long drive, so I got here early. One of the things I’m going to talk about are the missteps in Software Development, and project especially. One of these missteps is that we tend to think that we [...]

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All IT projects need Vision: Why and How

May 25, 2010

Software Projects don’t have a great success factor. According to some, this is because projects are too big, not measured right or simply didn’t have the right steer on it. These factors can all be true. But there’s more to it. Maybe even simpler. Most successful projects have been seen like a success from the [...]

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The times for Change in Software Development are Now

May 21, 2010
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The Move from Servicing to Innovation

May 15, 2010

In the may 2010 edition of Profit Magazine (an Oracle issued magazine on executive decisions and application implementation) Minda Zetlin (Tech-author, journalist and pro-speaker) writes a very interesting article on the changing insights in IT for corporations, and the CTO role in particular. One of the main focusses is the momentarily change from the servicing [...]

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Where’s the Money at?

May 14, 2010

IT solutions can’t be measured, or at least, it’s hard. Not my statement, but something I hear very frequently. This is, by default, not the problem we’re facing here. It’s the logical outcome of looking at the different things. We should not be focusing on measuring the outcome of the IT project, the thing we [...]

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