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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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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’s it Worth?

April 29, 2010

Within IT, and the rest of the world for that matter, we tend to think in orders of cost. How much money, effort, or any other measurable amount will something cost us. There are a few problems with that. First of all, within large companies and governments we’re not talking to the budget owner. Second, [...]

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Enterprise Architecture is the Beginning of any Project

April 23, 2010

I know, tough one. When we take a look at Enterprise Architecture we tend to think of it as a fast and enormous endeavour. An extensive part of IT that only belongs in large organisations and within the service management organisation, not the project. At least, this is what I used to think about it. [...]

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