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Project Management

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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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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Developing with a touch of the Divine

February 23, 2010

Assumptions are Lethal. This is a thing we probably can be sure of. Maybe lethal is an overstatement, but you guys probably know what I’m talking about. Actors in our projects that don’t seem to listen, because they already ‘know’ how the solution must look like and how the functionality works.
Creating an extensive Functional Design [...]

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Where is the Value in Analysis and Design?

February 21, 2010

Right now, I’m creating a presentation for a session I will give on wednesday at the Fontys college about Analysis and Design. Even on the first slide, I created a deadlock for myself. I state, the only real value is to be found in a working product.
So, I would like to state the obvious, analysis [...]

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How User Experience can help the Democratic Process in Software Development

February 16, 2010

A few weeks ago I dropped some balls on the question if Software Development is, or is not, a Democratic process. And of course it is. We just need to listen to the right people and have to decide who our civilians are (if we still like to work with the metaphor). This simply means [...]

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Oracle Unified Method: Implement the Oracle Stack with an Agile Vision

February 15, 2010

Last week I talked about it briefly: Oracle Unified Method, OUM. A way to, completely implement the Oracle Stack, with an Agile vision. The vision Oracle is talking about here is to support the successful implementation of every Oracle product, application, middleware and database. And this is where it gets extremely interesting.
The OUM is based [...]

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