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How I jump to my conclusions
May 2005 - Posts
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StumbleUpon helps you surf the net. It's a free tool which lets you browse, review and share great webpages while meeting new people …. Read More...
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For everyone teaching classes (including my collegues who read most of my posts) a description of a bad training day and what others thought about it. Read More...
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Have you ever copied some text from a web page, a word document, help, etc., and wanted to paste it as simple text into another application without getting all the formatting from the original source? PureText makes this simple. Just copy/cut whatever Read More...
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Another on Smart Clients from David Ing's blog "From 9 till 2". David lists differences from Java's Desktop approach and argues that Smart Clients score well on the key drivers for choosing browser-based applications now: Reach, Maintenance and Scalability. Read More...
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Brian Kennemer endlessly obsessing about Project Server so that you don't have to… Take a look at projectified Read More...
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Johanna Rothman is doing a series on “Schedule Games” that is very good stuff. Read More...
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When doing a RUP project, traceability decisions are documented in your Requirements Management Plan. Brad Appleton wrote two nice articles on traceability. In the second, titled The Five Orders of Traceability Brad distinguishes five levels of traceability, Read More...
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When doing a RUP project, traceability decisions are documented in your Requirements Management Plan. Brad Appleton wrote two nice articles on traceability. In the first, titled Traceability and TRUST-ability , Brad lists the main goals that traceability Read More...
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Since long a point of many discussions. Personally I don't like the idea, since most problems in project find there roots in trying to do the impossible, resulting in overly complex projects. See for yourself in: Overlapping iterations in a RUP-based Read More...
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There has been written a lot about what iterative development means for developers. What it feels like for members of the customer team on a project to work iteratively and incrementally was described in a previous article. Two sides of the coin were Read More...
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This plug-in is supplied with a new template configuration, created to highlight the new concepts, guidelines, activities, artifacts and tool mentors that are offered in the RUP for SOA Plug-In, integrating support for Service-Oriented Architecture and Read More...
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When working on a RUP project, User groups are documented in the Vision document, and goals of the Actors are starting point for writing Use Cases. More on the combined use of Personas and Use Cases in Use-Cases and Personas: A Case Study in Light-Weight Read More...
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The term "Personas" was first coined by Alan Cooper in his book well worth reading "The Inmates are running the Asylum". In Perfecting Your Personas Kim Goodwin introduces the use of "Personas" as a tool used in designing good user interfaces. An overview Read More...
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Defining your product's release criteria is an essential part of laying the foundation for a successful project. Karl Wiegers ( author of Software Requirements, 2nd Edition (Microsoft Press, 2003) ) describes a whole list of possible release criteria Read More...
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Communication barriers, time zone and cultural differences all hinder offshore development. But what if offshore titans learn to work with collaborative techniques? By Scott W. Ambler Software Development Online: Agile Outsourcing Read More...
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"Every defect is a treasure, if the company can uncover its cause and work to prevent it across the corporation." - Kilchiro Toyoda, founder of Toyota Problems become apparent by the symptoms we see. Problem Analysis, the first step in the RUP Requirements Read More...
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Once upon a time thin clients were ok and fat clients were bad. For several months I encounter the term Smart clients. In JackG's WebLog : Client definitions a nice summary of the differences is given. Or at Microsoft, take a look at the Smart Client Read More...
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In a post from last year, Testing ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Web Developer , a nice look inside is given into the testing process. Lots of screen shots of Maddog (look blurry at first sight, just click and enlarge the images) and has a nice picture of part Read More...
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Four video's on Maddog (NOT part of the Team System) from Sara Ford 's blog. Maddog is (as far as I understand) a central console built and used internally at Microsoft for test activity management. Functionally Maddog is much like TestManager from IBM Read More...
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Anthony Bailey received Kent Beck's Test-Driven Development By Example as a Christmas gift last year. In his blog he presents his experiments working with the book's case studies in different languages and styles, and gives some hazy conclusions. Read More...
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An interview with David Sirota , co-author of "The Enthusiastic Employee: How Companies Profit by Giving Workers What They Want". Sirota believes far too many managers kill employee enthusiasm of all employees by using bureaucratic or punitive techniques Read More...
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Adam Greenfield published an interesting article for Vodafone's Receiver magazine on the subject of use cases, or more particularly perverting our current idea of use cases in favour of ‘designing for deception, dishonesty, and other happy facts Read More...
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OMG created OCUP to provide a certification, an objective indication, of your knowledge of UML®, OMG's Unified Modeling Language™. There are three exams for the OMG Certified UML Professional : Fundamental, Intermediate and Advanced. Read More...
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There has been written a lot about what iterative development means for developers. But what does it feel like for members of the customer team on a project to work iteratively and incrementally? Read about the two sides of the coin in: Part 1: the developers Read More...
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In an iterative project, you focus first on the breadth, and then pick a piece to focus on in depth. Anthony Crain relates the various RUP roles to the breadth and depth perspectives in Understanding RUP roles and suggests how to match role assignments Read More...
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In my courses students learn to express requirements using Use Cases and Actors. Common practice is that the Use Cases are initiated by an Actor and that the Use Case reflects some goal the Actor wants to achieve. A recurring question is how to handle Read More...
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Dean Leffingwell, the author of Managing Software Requirements: A Use Case Approach describes some of the key constructs used to define customer requirements for software systems in Features, Use Cases Requirements, Oh My! Read More...
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Welcome to my weblog, let me introduce myself: My name is Harry Nieboer and I work both as a Systems Analist and Trainer for Info Support in The Netherlands. My working field is mainly on Systems Analysis, Requirements Management en Process Engineering. Read More...
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