[Originally posted on rtos.be] “Almost-Scrum” or what is also known more generally speaking as the Avalanche Model is not a good project approach to find yourself in with your development team. On Wiki you’ll find the following description: “The Avalanche model is a Software Engineering…
Introduction Talk about a difficult area of mobile development. Testing mobile applications and Web Sites. First we need to decide which platforms we wish to test: What is the lowest iOS device we’re testing on? 3GS, 4, 4S? (Worse) What…
Many cross-platform development frameworks exist in “native”, html or hybrid forms. It is very time consuming to track all these technologies, let alone implement a non-trivial application in each one of them. This is, however, exactly what the people at…
As we saw, Conway’s law states that you cannot design architectures that differ much from the organization’s communication’s structure. Clayton Christensen explains that big companies have a hard time innovating (read The innovator’s dilemma). And that most innovation happens outside…
The title is a bit of an exaggeration of course, or is it? Remember Conway’s law? It states that organizations which design systems … are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations Remember…
Recently someone asked me: “Say, how would you define architecture?”. This made me remember the IEEE definition which really captures the essence. I think it is worthwhile to repeat it here, since it speaks for itself: The fundamental organization of…
Ever wondered what frequencies are supported in different European countries? I did. I found the information on the Wireless Telecommunications blog (I only counted implemented frequencies and not planned ones). I added the information on Belgium to the ten countries…
As a first test-drive of prezi.com I created the TOGAF crop circles. Nothing fancy, just the crop circles. I use it to discuss the state of some architecture efforts I’m currently involved with. Here’s the link, hope it can be…
The results are in since Sunday last weekend and here are the results for the flemish part of Belgium in short: NV-A have won a lot. From almost any side you look at it they improved their positions considerably with…
Below you’ll find the final graphs I’ll plot. Top 9 for attention: PS SP.A NV-A MR GROEN OPENVLD ECOLO CDH CD&V Other parties got less than 2.5% Top 9 sentiment: SP.A GROEN PS ECOLO MR NV-A OPENVLD MG CDH According…