Sander Hoogendoorn

In the framework ADF.NET state can be temporarily stored by calling the StateManager.

To all the dear people in the agile community and to the faint-hearted: this will not be an easy blog post.

After having promoted agile and iterative approaches to software development projects for over a decade, I finally find that, like Bob Dylan says, the times they are a-changing.

In any given system under development, the business domain of that system is key.

Enterprise Architect by Sparx Systems is a commonly used modeling tool, targeted at modeling UML and BPMN diagrams.

Enterprise Architect by Sparx Systems is a commonly used modeling tool, targeted at modeling UML and BPMN diagrams.

Not all agile processes and approaches recognize the role of testing explicitly, other than stressing the importance of unit testing.

We are working very on implementing a new version of our free online agile dashboard.

One of the major items on my wish list – that is on the professional half of it – is to write a book that displays my ideas on software architecture, patterns and frameworks.

From April 12-14 the next edition of Microsoft’s MIX Conference will take place in Las Vegas.

Handling events in ASP.NET is not always as straightforward as it seems.

Om kosten te besparen, een veelgenoemde aanleiding voor Business Intelligence (BI) projecten, wilde een bekende overheidsinstantie weten hoe effectief de bestrijding van uitkeringsfraude was.

To cut to the chase, those of you who have worked on enterprise or service oriented projects before already know this.

As agile is becoming more and more mainstream, organization are starting to do enterprise software development project using well-known but fairly basic lightweight agile processes.

Vorige week gaf ik – voor de zoveelste keer – training in het identificeren en modelleren van smart use cases.

Extension methods are a powerful feature in .NET, and have been increasingly adopted by the developer community.

Sometimes there’s these really little things that hardly seem worth the effect blogging about.

Every now and then you see really horrible examples of software development.

It’s a mildly sunny April morning in 2002 when I park my car outside of a huge government agency office in a small suburban city near Utrecht.

Suppose you are in the IT department of a (very) large organization and have been developing systems for your organization for quite some years.

Let’s suppose for a moment that it’ is 1986.

Despite misunderstanding and resistance of his space-flight loving people president Barack Obama recently aborted the Constellation space program.

Smart use cases are a great technique for specifying standardized requirements in many types of projects.

The Accelerated Delivery Platform’s (ADP) Agile Dashboard is a pragmatic and publicly available tool (free) for managing project progress online.

Last week my daughter Sam (13), her friend Joey and I went to see the movie Avatar in 3D at the IMAX theatre in Rotterdam.

As you might have heard from me before (endlessly), smart use cases are a fairly straightforward reqirements technique.

As you might have heard from me before (endlessly), smart use cases are a fairly straightforward reqirements technique.

As you might have heard from me before (endlessly), smart use cases are a fairly straightforward reqirements technique.

This post was originally written to be published as a chapter in an upcoming book on IT architecture.

This post was originally written to be published as a chapter in an upcoming book on IT architecture.

The Capgemini blog called Capping IT Off has been nominated by Computer Weekly.

This DevTweet column by @mariannerd and @aahoogendoorn is published in SDN Magazine, December 2009.

Although I do publish occasionally, I've reached a novelty this month.

This post is published in Software Release Magazine, and in slightly adapted form as an expert opinion on the Computable website.

Published in my Interesting Things column in SDN Magazine, November 2009.

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This column will be pulished in the September 2009 issue of Software Release Magazine.

If you are still in doubt whether social media will change they way we communicate and do business, please check out this brilliant presentation, with stunning figures.

This post was published in .NET Magazine.

The following conversation between Marianne and me will be published as our DevTweet column of SDN Magazine, issue 102.

For as long as I've been in this business, I've heard a lot of manager, project managers, architects and other non-coders compare software development to construction.

About a week ago, someone (from the UK) send me an email with the following question: I like your article on Smart Use Cases.

Speciaal voor Software Architects organiseert het SDN op donderdagavond 25 juni een SDN Event met twee hoogstaande sessies die architectects zeker zullen aanspreken.

In any project, and especially in projects that run under a tight schedule – as most projects do these days, it is helpful to list all elements that can possibly be (re)used to crank up your project, such as guidelines, documentation templates, existing c…

Later this week I will be doing a talk at the Microsoft DevDays conference at the Congrescentrum in Den Haag.

Smart use cases serve as a very good unit of work in agile projects.

In most cases where a form of agile software development is applied, projects are challenged with difficult issues, such as a swaggering scope, unclear and incomplete requirements, unstable software architecture, are quickly approaching dead lines.

Smart is an easy to implement agile process, that is essentially smart use cases driven.