I am doing some analytical work on a side project these days. Currently, we are in the process of defining the scope of the system, so as the good analyst that I am, I have fired up Visio 2013. Now, I didn’t get the big flashy version of Visio, which means that I don’t have all the stencils I need. In another blog post I wrote about the BPMN 2.0 stencil, but this time around I have to use the UML stencil as I am working on use case diagrams and data models. Luckily the Internet is my best friend,...
Getting my C# on
Computerworld has a pretty interesting article about the truisms of Hans-Joachim Popp. I am not sure how new these things are, but it is pretty refreshing to see a CIO making these statements. Here are the greatest hits: Huge projects will fail A rare and inexplicable error will come back – for sure Spec will be finalized in the course of system development Coding (the India part) is of less importance to the project success Database applications will have performance problems Professional project managers will make the project look on time until one day before release The genius super team...
As wrote earlier, I have been participating in quite a few digitization projects. Usually, the basic premise for the projects has been to emulate a human based process in a digital manner. Or, we have tried to make the shoe fit the foot. One of the things I have noted, is how requirements seem to be incompatible with the how a system works. In my experience, human processes are very agile and easily adaptable to any problems that may arise. As human beings, we are able to improvise very quickly in order to finish a process that has gone awry....
I have been in my new job for over a month now, and I a better grasp of the development methodologies. Obviously, I keep comparing the methods to how we did at my old job, since the differences are quite explicit. Whereas before I was submerged in a SCRUM world, I am now working in a team that applies a waterfall model for development. In all honesty, the beginnings were a little difficult to getting used to. For many years I have been moving at break neck speed with a release every two to three weeks. On top of that...
