Sander Hoogendoorn

In the second half of last year, I did a guest lecture at the Hogeschool Arnhem Nijmegen (HAN) in Arnhem on an invitation by lecturer Rody Middelkoop.

Suffers from writers block!

Early in March Twan van den Broek, SAP solution architect at TopForce, got in touch with me if I would be interested to coach an agile SAP project at a very large logistics organization.

After a dozen years of promoting and evangelizing agile software development in the current years of economic unpredictability a breakthrough in applying agile processes and techniques is emerging.

I started using Twitter – no, this is not another post about Twitter – to investigate if it could help me innovate.

The process of creating a sound estimate for your project will take some time in any agile project.

One of the characteristics of most traditional – linear, waterfall – styled organizations is the extremely rigid execution of their software development projects .

De voorpagina van de Computable van 20 maart is opgesierd met een prachtige foto van een uit een witte limousine stappend bruidje in een even witte bruidsjurk en prachtige borsten.

We (my team and I and a lot of people that contributed from projects) have been working on the concept of smart use cases on and off over the last ten years.

Sometimes when you work hard, you’re rewarded with nice feedback.

Good to hear that I’ve made the program of this year’s Microsoft DevDays.

Go to episode three.

In our Accelerated Delivery Platform we generate code from our standardized smart use cases and the domain model, using our Tobago MDA tooling.

At this point in time, where we slowly shift from service orientation to cloud computing, building business software is more complicated then it has ever been.

Go to episode two Go to episode one Client / server could have been a much more successful era in software development, if it wasn’t for this copy-and-paste programming, leading to applications that slowly became unmanageable.

Go to episode one.

Despite the current economic crisis – or maybe because of the current economic crisis – my upcoming workshop on modeling in software development projects using UML and beyond, which is held on March 4 and 5 in Hilversum, is still fully booked!

This morning I proposed a second talk for the EuroSTAR 2009 Conference in Stockholm.

This morning I proposed the following talk for the EuroSTAR 2009 Conference in Stockholm.

Here I am, minding my own business.

I always thought that software was developed to make things easier.

Application migration is the process of migrating older applications (often referred to as legacy) to application that have more of less similar functionality, but are developed in newer technology.

YAGNI is a well known acronym in agile software development, which is short for You Ain’t Gonna Need It.

Projects that are run using the agile methodology Smart are split up into short iterations.

It’s too bad there’s only 24 hours in a day.

The general idea around (Smart) estimation is to be able to express project effort at any given time before or during a project.

Mensen die mij al langer kennen, weten het inmiddels.

While I was at the .NET Partner Advisory Council meeting in Redmond, one of the other members made us aware of the existence of Windows Live Writer, a small tool from the Windows Live group to edit blogs.

And still I am in Seattle.

Let’s be perfectly clear about one thing: 2009 will not only be known as the year the financial crisis hits in hard, it will also be known as the year everything turned agile.

The first business software I wrote professionally – that is, got paid for – was a set of small and similar calculation applications.

On January 13 from 14:30 – 16:00 the Hogeschool Utrecht organizes a guest lecture by Sander Hoogendoorn, Principal Technology Officer at Capgemini.

Calvin & Hobbes is one of my favorite comic strips of all time.

Over the past twenty or so years I have been involved in many software development projects, code reviews, and software factory implementations.

Suppose that while getting the groceries for the weekend, I decide to buy some steaks.

When reasoning about business domains in projects with customers, domain objects and their services are always discussed.

It’s hard to admit, but I only discovered the Scottish band Biffy Clyro by accident when I was browsing through the sales at an online record store.

Alhoewel ik het liefst code schrijf, heb ik een zwak voor het schatten van projecten.

Earlier this week I presented a talk at the inspiring Software Developers Conference 2008 in Noordwijkerhout, the Netherlands.

Dat is schrikken!

On LinkedIn I stumbled over this interesting question (posed by Tony Bruce).

I have a mobile device running Windows Mobile 6 which I use for synchronizing my contacts, tasks and appointments with Outlook running on my office laptop (yes, running Windows Vista).

Maybe you recognize the following situation: you are asked to estimate a new project.

Het is maandagmorgen.

Het is half vier ‘s middags als mijn vliegtuig in een zachte motregen landt op het vliegveld van Seattle Tacoma.

Vanmorgen bracht ik met mijn jongste zoontje Boet – net drie – een bezoek aan de dichtstbijzijnde kinderboerderij.

On Plaxo, a networking website, someone started a poll that was issued to answer the question: which region is the best one for offshore IT projects?

Can’t help it.

Omdat de grijzende stewardessen van Air Canada op de nachtvlucht van Honolulu naar Sydney nu eenmaal niet de Volkskrant rondbrengen, besluit ik genoegen te nemen met de Herald Tribune.

In the beginning in November, I was in Barcelona.