Posts in 2021
  • Temporal Aspects of Rolling ERP Planning

    2021-07-01 in 2021

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    Agile approaches advocate dynamic planning and adaptation to new inputs and priority changes. The Beyond Budgeting Round Table movement promotes rolling planning, budgeting, and reporting. The beyond budgeting techniques recommend the complete …

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  • Agile Trends Switzerland 2021

    2021-06-15 in 2021

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    As a modern leader, you are aware of the importance of transforming your organization to become more agile. Indeed, you have successfully implemented the first steps. Trouble is brewing. Things are not moving forward as quickly as they should, …

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  • Reflections on Agile Fluency Model

    2021-06-01 in 2021

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    Agile fluency model is a powerful abstraction to better understand your agile transition. It does not matter which flavor of agile you are deploying in your organization; the agile fluency model can be applied in all cases. The agile fluency model …

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  • Certified Java Developer

    2021-05-15 in 2021

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    Java is celebrating 25 years of existence. I discovered the anniversary offer to certify for Java SE 11 Developer. This special certification has a cool logo with the remainder of the Java 25-year anniversary. Oracle offers this certification for …

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  • Agile Trends Switzerland 2020

    2021-05-10 in 2021

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    As a modern leader, you are aware of the importance of transforming your organization to become more agile. Indeed, you have successfully implemented the first steps. Trouble is brewing. Things are not moving forward as quickly as they should, …

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  • Agile Requirements Engineering

    2021-04-24 in 2021

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    Lately, I was asked which new approaches should be used for agile requirements engineering. Did we find a new silver bullet to write software specifications the agile way? The answer is easy. We do not need new approaches or complicated processes. …

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  • Self-Service for Developer Game Changer

    2021-04-20 in 2021

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    Often, I hear complain that the IT department is not reacting to developer’s needs. They are slow, clumsy, and too administrative. Harsher words state they are incompetent. I have observed a clear trend in Switzerland since around 2015 to solve …

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  • JDk 16

    2021-04-01 in 2021

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    I truly love the new release rhythm of the Java ecosystem. It is awesome to be able to use new features every six months. The migration overhead is held to a minimum thanks to incredible backward compatibility. The new features greatly simplify the …

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  • Agile Software Architecture is Mainstream

    2021-03-15 in 2021

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    Slowly, slowly major actors in the software architecture landscape acknowledge agile development is the state of the industry approach to building software products. They are still struggling to integrate their older views into a faster, iterative, …

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  • MicroStream 4.x

    2021-03-02 in 2021

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    MicroStream approach empowers Java developers. The library provides a cool and compact approach to persisting complex data models. You can persist your whole data model with less than a hundred lines of code. The library is efficient and works …

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