This thursday, november 24th, i’ll be speaking at LAC 2011. It’s a short talk in which i’ll mainly give a different perspective on Scrum and Agile and the role architecture needs to play in Agile projects. In my opinion it’s not a question of process but of content. I don’t think it’s enough for Architecture [...]
We’ll that’s the goal. Currently i have 5 ubuntu server instances running on my laptop (1 loadbalancer, 2 application servers, 2 database server), which are provisioned using Puppet. Next step is installing cloudfoundry. Some useful links: Howto: Install the CloudFoundry Server PaaS on Ubuntu 11.10 Getting started with the CloudFoundry Client in Ubuntu Vcap readme [...]
Here’s a useful manual how to create a Ubuntu 11.10 base box for Vagrant: Build Base Box Vagrant Ubuntu Oneiric 11.10 Server. I’m currently in the process of starting a 3 machine cluster on my laptop, it’s a shame you can’t run Vagrant in parallel. Now it takes me a full 10 minutes to create [...]
The Lean Startup concept of Minimal Viable Product is getting a lot of attention at the moment. It’s good to focus on a MVP, even if you’re not working on a Lean Startup. You want to start learning as early as possible. You can also apply MVP to software development projects, for example by defining [...]
Ironically, one of the more interesting presentations yesterday at the nljug jfall 2011 was a presentation by David Chou of Microsoft on Azure. The largest part of his presentation discussed and demoed how you can create and deploy a java application on Azure. But the part I liked best was where he discussed architecture patterns [...]
Just uploaded my first presentation to speakerdeck. It’s an introduction to scrum. I use it mainly as support for presentations, so it’s a bit lacking without me talking… I first discuss the goals of Scrum, before explaining the Scrum framework itself. I think the main object to understand is that you’re trying to manage uncertainty, [...]
The Future of Agile. … agile methods are more popular than ever. But what’s next? How do we get agile past having a few Scrum teams within an organisation? These are some of the questions asked in the invition to Agile Open Holland. How do you scale Agile? Amazon seems to have the answer. Yesterday [...]
The next web linked to a really interesting presentation by Amazon’s CTO today: Amazon’s CTO: “Amazon is a technology company. We just happen to do retail”. Lots of interesting information here: Scrum & Agile – small teams, fast innovation, all teams are customer focussed. How to scale. Architecture – what’s important when architecting large scale [...]
As architects we are mostly working on translating business models and goals to IT strategies, plans and designs. We accept the business model as it is, and work from there. Business models however, are not immune to IT changes. This blogpost, Amazon and the reintermediation of the spectacle, is a nice illustration of the fact [...]
My post Nice example of product development as a learning process is getting a surprising amount of hits from people looking for product development example in google. I’m curious to know what exactly it is that you are all looking for? Product Development is an interesting subject. Many people I talk to think that they [...]
