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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 Read More... Posted Sunday, November 30, 2008 10:35 PM by HarryN | 0 Comments Filed under: RUP, Requirements

• It's all about teamwork, isn't it?

  When you think you have seen all about teamwork, you have not seen despair.com yet! This is the place to go for your demotivators ... Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 26, 2008 12:52 AM by HarryN | 0 Comments Filed under: Fun

• 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 Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 25, 2008 11:55 PM by HarryN | 0 Comments 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 Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 25, 2008 12:22 AM by HarryN | 0 Comments Filed under: UML, Requirements, Analysis and Design

• ... And moved back to Info Support again

  After two years and three months I'm happy to announce that I'm back at Info Support again. In those two years I did some interesting work at Getronics on their Getronics Delivery Process (a RUP based Software Factory), worked on several project Read More... Posted Thursday, November 20, 2008 10:34 AM by HarryN | 2 Comments

• 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

• The Onion Router (TOR) Network & DNS Security Extensions

  This item (an invitation for a presentation) is in Dutch Dinsdag 9 mei a.s. vindt de 22e lezingenavond van NINJA plaats. De sprekers van die avond zijn Merijn Vogel en Miek Gieben. (zie ook overzicht eerdere lezingen) Het verhaal van Merijn Vogel heeft Read More... Posted Sunday, April 30, 2006 9:42 PM by Anonymous | 0 Comments Filed under: Software Engineering, KUN - Ninja - Radboud

• Dr. Angry and Mrs. Smiles

  On a close-up view, you can see on the left face, an angry man and on the right face, a woman with a neutral facial emotion. But further back (walk some 5 meters back from your computer monitor), the faces change expression and even genders! If you squint, Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 25, 2006 10:39 PM by Anonymous | 0 Comments Filed under: Other

• Four essentials of good management

  In The Deadline , Tom DeMarco tells stories to pass on wisdom, like this one : Four essentials of good management: · Get the right people. · Match them to the right jobs. · Keep them motivated · Help their teams to jell and stay jelled Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 25, 2006 10:31 PM by Anonymous | 0 Comments Filed under: Software Engineering, Project Management

• 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, Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 19, 2006 12:28 PM by Anonymous | 0 Comments Filed under: Software Engineering, Other, Requirements

• Busy, Busy, Busy

  Last two months I did not post as much as you would expect me to. I had two reasons for that. First reason is that my 77 year old mother broke her hip again. She had to go to the hospital and since it is the second time in two years she broke the same Read More... Posted Monday, April 17, 2006 12:00 AM by Anonymous | 2 Comments Filed under: Other

• Don't use wishy-washy language

  I referenced Marcus earlier when he presented some tips on staying calm during presentations. Recently he added some more presentation tips, including the wishy-washy one: - From start to end: Some more presentation tips - The soft side of presentations Read More... Posted Saturday, April 01, 2006 12:14 AM by Anonymous | 0 Comments Filed under: Software Engineering

• INXS uses wishy-washy language!

  INXS Song Lyrics Wishy Washy (From the album "INXS") I got a place with a view You can see the cars As they travel down the freeway To clubs and bars There's a woman downstairs With matt-grey hair And she smiles when she tells me There's no room for me Read More... Posted Friday, March 31, 2006 11:36 PM by Anonymous | 0 Comments Filed under: Software Engineering

• Harry Potter and Snape have different training styles

  The IT Training Doctor: Harry Potter and the Trainer of Dire A nice, LEGO-illustrated story on how following the right course saved Dobby's life. Read More... Posted Thursday, March 30, 2006 9:54 PM by Anonymous | 0 Comments Filed under: Other