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Standardized IT-platforms are essential for Business Agility

February 21, 2012

There’s a lot to do about Business Agility in our line of work (I realize I do a large assumption here, but I guess a save one). Software Development is more and more about facilitating change for the business. This is, as I see it, an essential move forward. But when looking at agility, we [...]

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Agility as a Goal, not as Means

December 14, 2010

Agile. Within the Software Development business we look at the principle mostly as a way to deliver functional solutions to the business. Agile Software Development. But rarely we look at the solution itself to be agile. Is this the right way to look at our business? Isn’t the solution itself the highest goal? (Which, in [...]

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Governmental ICT waste

September 22, 2010

Last week I wrote an article for one of the large Dutch newspapers following the news about a 12 million euro project gotten killed . Unfortunately the article was too specialistic to be actually placed in the paper. But that also means that I now have the opportunity to publish it here on Ome-B.nl. I [...]

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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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