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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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CreativITy: Reading Essentials

April 14, 2010

During the sessions about CreativITy, I get a lot of questions what books are a good read, what books reflect the theories and approaches I like to work with. The answer to this questions isn’t simple and therefore I mostly just answer that it’s the book I’m currently reading. Because I think literature always teaches [...]

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Through the looking glass: APEX as the Stray App Killer

March 15, 2010

Alright, APEX has been marketed as the Access killer. This, of course, is not entirely true. When we take a look at some real live implications of Oracle’s Application Express, it is put into action for developing new applications, within an Oracle environment. Not for killing Access within an organization. APEX can be put into [...]

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Develop as fast as you can

March 12, 2010

Software Development takes time. At least, that is what we hear all the time (or do we tell our end users this?). Software Development frameworks however, are getting more and more time efficient in the last few days. Even ‘old’ development frameworks like Oracle Designer can be extremely fast, if you know what you are [...]

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Why it is a sad thing when projects are in the IT domain

March 9, 2010

IT projects are in the IT domain, just like Marketing projects are in the Marketing domain. Makes sense right? No, it doesn’t. When we take a look at IT projects, we need to understand the fact that the only right of existence is the fact that we support business processes. This means that we need [...]

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