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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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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 [...]

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The solution that is not the solution

March 6, 2010

If solutions are our business, why is it that there are often solutions implemented that aren’t really solutions at all? Or, at least, don’t actually solve a real and existing problem. It is strange that we all earn our money resolving challenges for business, yet we tend to stick with the familiar technology driven solutions. [...]

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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 [...]

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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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