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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 ...

Last week the Eclipse Process Framework project released a new version of their tooling and processes. EPF is basically a tool to build a process web site with, as well as open source versions of popular processes like OpenUP (RUP), Scrum and XP. With the new release EPF also provides a collection of "practices". The published EPF ...

This year I attended the IBM Rational Software Development Conference (RSDC) 2008 in Orlando, Florida. One can really see what is going on inside IBM Rational at the moment, and where the Rational world is turning to. There were 300+ sessions, divided into 14 (+ one executive summit) tracks. What I have taken back from this conference ...

A few weeks ago the Eclipse Process Framework (EPF) released a new version of their tools and process libraries. Part of the release is the OpenUP process definition. OpenUP is a spin-off from RUP, and is a more "agile" and lightweight variation. It is released under the EPL, which unlike RUP, means OpenUP is free and open source. You ...

RUP itself has many different roles (Project manager, System Analyst, Software Architect, Technical Writer). So what's the use of having so many roles, while you know that you surely will not easily have enough people in your team to have a 1-1 relation. Most teams I come across are 6-15 people. According to the Standish Group it is best to ...

Iterative/agile software development methods like IBM Rational Unified Process, XP and Scrum are very popular lately. To some, they are like a silver bullet, the 100% fail safe way to develop software. To others, software development methods are just fancy names for common sense stuff, and therefore a waste of time and money. I don't think ...

RUP itself has some clear milestones, for each phase (Inception, Elaboration, Construction, Transition). Trouble is that you usually can't just say: I've saved the last document of Inception, now we are ready for Elaboration. Reaching a milestone is something which doesn't happen all of the sudden. And this means that closing out a ...

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 ...