Requirements Engineering for Agile development
Are you feeling overwhelmed as a product owner, business analyst or architect trying to determine the most crucial features for your product? Look no further! This article offers a …
Category: Agile Scrum
Scaling [down] the Mountain of Debt – Four dimensions of IT Debt
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WYSIWYG may not be true for all IT systems. What you see may be more than what you actually get. As a Product Owner, you have to be very …
Architecture in an agile world
October 5, 2021
Agile Scrum, Architecture, DevOps, Digtial Innovation, Software Development
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This year I had to work with a colleague for multiple internal poc’s that we could use to show customers. Together we started thinking about the approach and where …
The Release Formula: R = ΔF + ΔNF + ΔQ
TL;DR: a software release introduces changes in three areas: functional, non-functional and quality. Each change should contribute to identified objectives – and the contribution should be measurable. Product teams …
The True Cost of a Feature–Kill your darlings
TL;DR: the true cost of a software feature includes a long tail of operational and maintenance cost that should be taken into consideration when first implementing the feature. The …
How to build an Oracle Database application (that supports APEX, Java, React or any other front-end) (1)
March 5, 2021
Agile Scrum, APEX, Architecture, Continuous Delivery, Database, Deployment, DevOps, PL/SQL, Software Development
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What’s in a name? A title is important and I hope that it describes well what I do want to share with you in this series of articles. It …
How to build an Oracle Database application (that supports APEX, Java, React or any other front-end) (6)
February 26, 2021
DevOps, Agile Scrum, APEX, Architecture, Continuous Delivery, Database, Deployment, PL/SQL, Software Development
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Last time in “How to build an Oracle Database application (that supports APEX, Java, React or any other front-end) (5)”, I told you about Git, Subversion, Maven and Flyway. In …
How to build an Oracle Database application (that supports APEX, Java, React or any other front-end) (5)
February 26, 2021
DevOps, Agile Scrum, APEX, Architecture, Continuous Delivery, Database, Deployment, PL/SQL, Software Development
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Last time in “How to build an Oracle Database application (that supports APEX, Java, React or any other front-end) (4)”, I told you about the Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler. …
How to build an Oracle Database application (that supports APEX, Java, React or any other front-end) (4)
February 26, 2021
DevOps, Agile Scrum, APEX, Architecture, Continuous Delivery, Database, Deployment, PL/SQL, Software Development
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Last time in “How to build an Oracle Database application (that supports APEX, Java, React or any other front-end) (3)”, I told you about the Oracle Database and Oracle APEX. …
How to build an Oracle Database application (that supports APEX, Java, React or any other front-end) (3)
February 26, 2021
DevOps, Agile Scrum, APEX, Architecture, Continuous Delivery, Database, Deployment, PL/SQL, Software Development
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Last time in “How to build an Oracle Database application (that supports APEX, Java, React or any other front-end) (2)”, I did show you the database structure. This time I …
How to build an Oracle Database application (that supports APEX, Java, React or any other front-end) (2)
February 26, 2021
DevOps, Agile Scrum, APEX, Architecture, Continuous Delivery, Database, Deployment, PL/SQL, Software Development
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Last time in “How to build an Oracle Database application (that supports APEX, Java, React or any other front-end) (1)”, I gave you an introduction. This time I will elaborate …
Multiple products, one scrum team: Advantages and disadvantages of a multiproduct scrum team
Introduction According to the scrum guide, scrum is a framework within which people can address complex adaptive problems, while productively and creatively delivering products of the highest possible value. …
A DBA’s first steps in Jenkins
My Customer wanted an automated way to refresh an application database to a known state, to be done by non-technical personnel. As a DBA I know a lot of …
Continuous Delivery and the Oracle database (III)
April 22, 2016
Continuous Delivery, Agile Scrum, Architecture, Database, Deployment, Oracle, PL/SQL
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In this series of blogs about Continuous Delivery and the Oracle database, I describe how to automate deployments (installations). In the previous two Blogs I have described the tools …
Continuous Delivery and the Oracle database (II)
April 15, 2016
Technology, Agile Scrum, Continuous Delivery, Database, Deployment, Languages, Oracle, PL/SQL, Software Development
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In the previous Blog I have described how to implement CD for an Oracle database by using migration scripts. In this Blog I will describe how to create migration …
Discover 7 Agile Estimation Techniques That Outshine Scrum Planning Poker
Agile teams often rely on planning poker for their agile estimation. However, planning poker may not always be the most effective method. The estimation features might be too large, …
Stap voor stap, telkens verder vooruit
Woensdagavond keek ik weer met verwondering naar Zembla. Laat ik vooropstellen dat ik een aantal uitspraken tendentieus vind en iets te eenvoudig voorgesteld. De boodschap is echter duidelijk: grote …
Continuous delivery culture. Why do we do the things we do the way we do them?
Usually at first there is a problem to be solved. A solution is conjured and implemented. After a while, the solution is re-used and re-used again. It changes depending …
What is REST?
REST (Representational State Transfer) is a term often used in software engineering when talking about services or other API’s. A lot of these so-called RESTful services or interfaces are not RESTful …
Agile software development, the principles. Principle 11: The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams.
This is the eleventh of 12 posts about the principles of agile software development. Purpose is to go back to the start of the agile manifesto (http://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html) and discuss …
Agile software development, the principles. Principle 10: Simplicity -the art of maximizing the amount of work not done- is essential
August 3, 2009
IT, Agile Scrum, AMIS, Project Management, Software Development, Software Engineering
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This is the tenth of 12 posts about the principles of agile software development. Purpose is to go back to the start of the agile manifesto (http://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html) and discuss …