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Cleaning up (or the application of your lifetime)

February 26, 2010

Who wants to Live Forever? Great song. Not so great approach to Software Development though. When we take a look at Software Development, you’ve probably noticed the situation that any app that has even been build, still is fully running today. At the beginning of the lifecycle of an application or system, we like to [...]

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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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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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Do it different: SPIN

January 26, 2010

This is a sales technique, SPIN. Situation, Problem, Implication, Need-Payoff. But it’s also very applicable to Software Development. In essence: analysis and design.The technique, written-up by Neil Rackham, tells us how to listen to clients and (creating) their needs. It’s said to be the most used sales technique in the world, but that’s not how [...]

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