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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 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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CreativITy: Analysis and Design. The Fontys Venlo Session

February 24, 2010

CreativITy – Fontys Venlo – Analysis And Design – 24 February 2010 View more presentations from Douwe Pieter van den Bos. This morning I did a great session for the Software Engineering department and its student at Fontys Hogeschool in Venlo. It was a great and interactive session. Lots of student already did some actual [...]

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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, [...]

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It never is about the Details

January 10, 2010

When we are designing and developing a brand new, or even just changes on an existing, applications, we tend to get stuck on Details. Nasty details. The thing is, we are, as most developers nowadays, pretty good in what we do. We develop code, design UI’s and really think we know we understand the problems [...]

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