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Templates considered harmful

At least one hundred times the last few years, while introducing collegues and clients to our processes, the infamous "Where are the templates?"-question popped up. For some reason lots of people think using a process is mostly filling in the...

Published 30-11-2008 22:35 by HarryN

Filed under: RUP, Requirements

Prioritizing Use Cases in an Iteration

As part of an IBM Rational training on Requirements Management which I regularly deliver at Info Support, is an exercise aimed at prioritizing a set of requirements. In that exercise, students are asked to prioritize a set of requirements giving a set...

Published 25-11-2008 23:55 by HarryN

Filed under: Use Cases, RUP, Requirements, Project Management

New blog moved to WordPress

I moved my new blog to http://hij2mc.wordpress.com/ . (hij2mc = how I jump to my conclusions, I continue the name of the blog) I used Blogger some time but changed to Wordpress as it offers better ways to organize your content. The RSS Feed for my blog...

Published 03-06-2006 9:47 by Anonymous

Filed under: Use Cases, RUP, UML, Software Engineering, Other, Requirements, Business Modeling, Project Management, Analysis and Design, Testing, User interface design, KUN - Ninja - Radboud

Moving on and making place ...

This night I set up a new weblog, How I jump to my conclusions with Blogger at Blogspot.com, since I'm switching from my current employer Infosupport to Getronics PinkRoccade. Unfortunately, Getronics apparently does not (yet?) have a company blogsite...

Published 05-05-2006 0:08 by Anonymous

Filed under: Use Cases, RUP, UML, Software Engineering, Other, Requirements, Business Modeling, Project Management, Analysis and Design, Testing, User interface design, KUN - Ninja - Radboud

fun stuff Fridays and the differentiator developer

Scott (Tyner Blane) introduced some (to me) new terms describing approaches he uses to build the right software. The problem he addresses is: how to decide which features to include on your first release. Even though we all know the including 100% of...

Published 09-03-2006 22:57 by Anonymous

Filed under: RUP, Requirements, Project Management

Spending time on features that are never used

We spend too much time on features that are never used, so where do they come from? On the Rational Edge, Laura Rose wrote on Involving customers early and often in a software development project as a solution to this problem. Laura included several sample...

Published 24-02-2006 0:58 by Anonymous

Filed under: RUP, Software Engineering, Requirements, Project Management

Agile works, says Scott…

One of the reasons, according to Scott Ambler, Why Agile Software Development Techniques Work , is that they reduce the feedback cycle between the generation of an idea (perhaps a requirement or a design strategy) and the realization of that idea. Of...

Published 14-02-2006 23:41 by Anonymous

Filed under: RUP, Software Engineering, Project Management

Sixty-three Habits

Some variants on the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People from Stephen R. Covey From Stephen R. Covey self: Seven Habits Revisited: Seven Unique Human Endowments If you run short of time: Seven Habits Condensed Summaries From Technicat: Seven Habits...

Published 09-02-2006 0:44 by Anonymous

Filed under: Use Cases, RUP, Software Engineering, Other, Requirements, Project Management, Analysis and Design, User interface design

The waterfall process is back!

Forget everything you learned the last 20 years and get back on track. Waterfall 2006 - International Conference on Sequential Development Including valuable tutorials from Martin, Cockburn, Beck, Kroll, Kern and many others. Read about the WUP! (Tip...

Published 02-02-2006 21:44 by Anonymous

Filed under: Use Cases, RUP, UML, Software Engineering, Other, Requirements, Business Modeling, Project Management, Analysis and Design, Testing, User interface design

Some OOP and Design Pattern Resources

David Hayden presents some OOP and Design Pattern Resources

Published 31-01-2006 23:25 by Anonymous

Filed under: RUP, Software Engineering, Analysis and Design

Scott Sehlhorst started a Use Case series

Scott Sehlhorst started a Use Case series ( Tyner Blain » Use case series: Introduction ) and as we share some common interests, he asked me to comment on it. I started commenting today and looking forward to his reactions.

Published 04-01-2006 23:54 by Anonymous

Filed under: Use Cases, RUP, Software Engineering, Requirements

Integrating Prince2 with RUP

An online course on integrating PRINCE2 with RUP .

Published 04-01-2006 23:18 by Anonymous

Filed under: RUP, Software Engineering, Project Management

Sample Use-Case specification

I wrote a sample Use-Case specification , which will be used as a sample on upcoming posts and articles on this blog. It relates to the formal Use-Case specification written by Scott W. Ambler in Introduction to System Use Cases . Please feel free to...

Published 04-01-2006 22:09 by Anonymous

Filed under: Use Cases, RUP, Requirements

Ivar Jacobson leads an effort to deliver a lightweight unified process to the Microsoft Solutions Framework.

Jacobson said the first fruits of his company's (Ivar Jacobson Consulting LLC, of Alexandria, Va.) relationship with Microsoft will be through the delivery of the Essential Unified Process (Essential UP, a simplified or lighter-weight alternative to RUP...

Published 15-11-2005 22:26 by Anonymous

Filed under: RUP, Software Engineering

Bad processes, good processes and good software

Ivar Jacobson's presentation “ What CMMI cannot give you: good software ” features a short story about a Foolish Farmer and his Thirsty Cow. Jacobson uses this story to help illustrate a significant difference between bad processes and good...

Published 15-11-2005 21:54 by Anonymous