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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

• 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 Read More... Posted Thursday, March 09, 2006 10:57 PM by Anonymous | 0 Comments 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 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

• 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 Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 04, 2006 10:09 PM by Anonymous | 0 Comments 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), 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

• Root Cause Analysis with a template

  "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 An best practice in doing projects with RUP is understanding the problem before jumping to solutions. Read More... Posted Monday, November 14, 2005 12:02 AM by Anonymous | 3 Comments Filed under: RUP, Requirements

• 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