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Why it is a sad thing when project 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 to [...]

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Forced Agility and the Leap Forward

March 8, 2010

Last friday and saturday we, at Whitehorses, had our yearly DeveloperDerby. This beautiful and fun race for developers is for our developers, by our developers. This year we had an actual client case of one of our beloved clients, Ricoh. And this is where it all changed…
In previous years we developed an application for a [...]

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Five thoughts on the Cloud

March 1, 2010

The first time I encountered Cloud Computing, which was a few years ago, I realized that this just might be the future of our business. But why? At first I couldn’t grasp it exactly. Whether we take a look at Software as a Service, SaaS, Platform as a Service, PaaS or simply hiring some computing [...]

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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 no: [...]

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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, analysis [...]

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How User Experience can help the Democratic Process in Software Development

February 16, 2010

A few weeks ago I dropped some balls on the question if Software Development is, or is not, a Democratic process. And of course it is. We just need to listen to the right people and have to decide who our civilians are (if we still like to work with the metaphor). This simply means [...]

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