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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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Thoughts on Sustainable Software Development

February 5, 2010

Sustainability is hip. When we look at the footprint of our actions in the world, IT (or ICT) is responsible for some of the carbon-dioxide emissions (don’t ask me how much, but I can imagine there’s a lot to win). It must be possible to reduce this by working more efficient and by creating more [...]

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Input as a part of automation

January 21, 2010

I’ve seen it more than once. A beautiful, automated business process that as only entry point has a printed form that gets typed over. Too bad, there goes your consistency. The point of failure is obvious and the faults come piling up.
Once data enters a, perfectly set up and thought about, process, and it’s already [...]

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CreativITy: When IT gets creative

October 2, 2009

In IT, or even ICT, we tend to look to the obvious: how do we get from A to B without any hassle? Or: in which way can we make sure that we know what to expect. This often means that we make the wrong choices, that we do whatever we did for the past [...]

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Just do It!

August 31, 2009

When we look at complex, or less complex, software development projects, we tend towards knowing everything (if anything) in advance. What will be the obstacles in our way? What problems might we expect and which hazardous encounters do we need to overcome in order to make this a success? In 2007 I met with a [...]

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Business Process Improvement: Inspiration

August 6, 2009

When an organization is working on improving their Business Processes there is always one fundamental component that a lot of books don’t write about, inspiration. Because we need the vision and ‘plain guts’ to dare and make large changes (changes are always there, stop try and fight them) we need to have the inspiration to [...]

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