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  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 templates. And who is to blame them, as the templates that are offered nowadays contain ...

  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 of requirements attributes (all valued High, Medium or Low):Customer ...

  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 specifications, 98% of the content is text. Requirements are often written in ...

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 is: https://hij2mc.wordpress.com/feed On some readers, like RSS Bandit, you have to uncheck ...

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. I really enjoyed blogging at Infosupport and heard that my (mostly) non-technical posts ...

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, and currently I'm transferring all kinds of knowledge to him. We found it is difficult to ...

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

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 the ‘must have’ requirements rule, that does not differentiate you from your competitors, since ...

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 checklists to help reduce the risk of missing important ...

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 of Highly Effective Programmers Seven Habits of ...