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Agile Enterprise Architecture: Two Way Traffic

July 30, 2010

Yesterday evening, my new Whitebook about Agile Enterprise Architecture (see here, in Dutch) got published. In this Whitebook I pointed out that developing Enterprise Architecture is a Two Way process. And that it should be build Agile. First of all, a Business Case should be leading in the choices that are made in the architecture. [...]

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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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Fear and Complexity are the Main Project Killers

May 28, 2010

“Fear and Complexity within a project, can be an explosive mixture that makes sure any project can fail.” According to the experienced agile project manager Martin van Borselaer Fear and Complexity are the main project killers. “Fear restrains us from doing or saying the things we know are right”, Martin says during a great session [...]

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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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What are the Three Pillars of Strategic Software Development?

May 10, 2010

Looking at Software Development projects and the strategic implementation of this into any organization, we have to take three pillars into account. Technology, Policy & Management and Analysis & Design. All these aspects can make sure the build software will have an sustainable character and really adds value to the organization. But where do we [...]

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