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• 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 Read More... Posted Saturday, June 03, 2006 9:47 AM by Anonymous | 2 Comments 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. Read More... Posted Friday, May 05, 2006 12:08 AM by Anonymous | 0 Comments Filed under: Use Cases, RUP, UML, Software Engineering, Other, Requirements, Business Modeling, Project Management, Analysis and Design, Testing, User interface design, KUN - Ninja - Radboud

• 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 Read More... Posted Friday, February 24, 2006 12:58 AM by Anonymous | 0 Comments 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 Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 14, 2006 11:41 PM by Anonymous | 0 Comments 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 Read More... Posted Thursday, February 09, 2006 12:44 AM by Anonymous | 0 Comments 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 Read More... Posted Thursday, February 02, 2006 9:44 PM by Anonymous | 0 Comments 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 Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 31, 2006 11:25 PM by Anonymous | 0 Comments 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. Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 04, 2006 11:54 PM by Anonymous | 0 Comments Filed under: Use Cases, RUP, Software Engineering, Requirements

• Integrating Prince2 with RUP

  An online course on integrating PRINCE2 with RUP . Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 04, 2006 11:18 PM by Anonymous | 4 Comments Filed under: RUP, Software Engineering, Project Management

• 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), Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 15, 2005 10:26 PM by Anonymous | 0 Comments 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 Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 15, 2005 9:54 PM by Anonymous | 0 Comments Filed under: RUP, Software Engineering

• The Ultimate RUP Quiz

  On his blog, Anthony Crain published his Ultimate RUP Quiz. The quiz consists of five questions . The first four questions are yes/no questions and the fifth is a pick choice A or B. These questions are NOT meant to be trick questions. The answers are Read More... Posted Sunday, November 13, 2005 5:47 PM by Anonymous | 0 Comments Filed under: RUP, Software Engineering

• A software development process for a team of one.

  In 2002, The Rational Edge published an article by Philippe Kruchten called A Software Development Process for a Team of One . It's an article well worth reading about a single person doing a 4-day project, showing that the principles behind RUP are universal Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 01, 2005 10:17 PM by Anonymous | 0 Comments Filed under: RUP, Software Engineering, Requirements

• Modeling service-oriented solutions with RUP

  The combination of the IBM Rational Unified Process Update for Service Oriented Architecture (RUP Update for SOA) and the Rational Software Architect implementation of the UML Profile for Software Services provides both a modeling approach as well as Read More... Posted Monday, July 18, 2005 10:56 PM by Anonymous | 0 Comments Filed under: RUP, UML, Software Engineering, Analysis and Design

• Book review of Balancing Agility and Discipline

  Book Review: Balancing Agility and Discipline from the hardcore XP'er Ronald E. Jeffries. He has a few disagreements, and may agreements. Worth reading. He also suggests to change the title of the book, but not many writers are really waiting for such Read More... Posted Monday, July 18, 2005 9:00 PM by Anonymous | 0 Comments Filed under: RUP, Software Engineering, Project Management