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Generation Y

Last week we had a quarterly meeting at Info Support. One of the presentations warned us about a new generation of people entering our workforce, and the workforce of our clients. Generation Y is a term used for people born between the late 1970's...

Published 16-09-2009 23:40 by HarryN

Filed under: Requirements, Soft skills

"Shall" lost in translation

"Shall" does not translate very well. Scott from Tyner Blain presumably read the post on optimal options for sleep schedule . At least he apparently had some time left to get to the bottom of a problem . Scott translated the word "Must"...

Published 18-05-2009 0:49 by HarryN

Filed under: Requirements, Fun

Useful techniques alongside Use-Case modeling

Alex Papsworth ( stating he is a Dogsbody doing unpleasant work ) actually did a nice post on his Business Analyst Mentor blog on useful techniques you can use alongside Use-Case modeling . He mentions storyboards , wireframes and prototypes . One of...

Published 12-03-2009 14:06 by HarryN

Filed under: Requirements, Analysis and Design, Tools

Making life easy - helping others succeed

In our profession we are constantly searching for ways to make our life and our work easier. Sometimes, you ask an outsider to help you, to facilitate you. Once in a while you get great help. You don't know what the facilitator did, but somehow your...

Published 05-03-2009 23:26 by HarryN

Filed under: Requirements, Soft skills

When a Vision is not a shared Vision

Some years ago, the project manager of our software project was having a hard time collecting all the stakeholders for our project. In the mean time, in order to do something useful (or maybe not so useful, see later) the project team crafted part of...

Published 04-02-2009 17:46 by HarryN

Filed under: Requirements

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

Why you would need a modeling tool to do the requirements job

People often ask me why you would need a modeling tool to do the requirements job. They often argue that requirements is mostly text, so using a wordprocessor would do the job. And indeed, when you look at a RUP Vision document, or examine RUP Use Case...

Published 25-11-2008 0:22 by HarryN

Filed under: UML, Requirements, Analysis and Design

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

Harry Nieboer: How I Work

Who wants to know what Harry Nieboer, Senior Systems Analist, Member of the Professional Development Center at Info Support, Teacher and Weblogger does on a day-to-day basis? Richard Zaat does! Richard has been appointed as my follow up at InfoSupport...

Published 19-04-2006 12:28 by Anonymous

Filed under: Software Engineering, Other, Requirements

Important tips for pointy-haired managers

Top ten tips for preventing innovation -Tyner Blain , Dilbert's manager would not hesitate to implement them:

Published 09-03-2006 23:14 by Anonymous

Filed under: Requirements, Project Management

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

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

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