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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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Where’s the Money at?

May 14, 2010

IT solutions can’t be measured, or at least, it’s hard. Not my statement, but something I hear very frequently. This is, by default, not the problem we’re facing here. It’s the logical outcome of looking at the different things. We should not be focusing on measuring the outcome of the IT project, the thing we [...]

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Enterprise Architecture is the Beginning of any Project

April 23, 2010

I know, tough one. When we take a look at Enterprise Architecture we tend to think of it as a fast and enormous endeavour. An extensive part of IT that only belongs in large organisations and within the service management organisation, not the project. At least, this is what I used to think about it. [...]

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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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When Software Development is (or is not) a Democratic Process

January 31, 2010

Although the Agile Manifesto tells us that the team in a Software Development Project is self steering it also tells us that we should build a project around motivated individuals. How large is the team? And why do organizations still support a strange, overly large and democratic system when it comes to Software Development Projects? [...]

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Blank Page: Six Basic Questions

January 18, 2010

Earlier I talked about using a ‘Blank Page’ for analysis. This is not my own idea, at least, I cannot imagine that no one else took this for granted. For every project the first idea is set upon an inspiration, a thought. These thoughts, that probably some smart guy or gal had before you came [...]

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