Category: Standards

  • Who is to blame? Try the I-shikawa diagram.

  • Is Agile a cancer to be eliminated?

    Back in September 2014, Erik Meijer, a Dutch computer scientist, gave a remarkable keynote speech at Reaktor Dev Day in Helsinki, Finland.  It began with a claim that “Agile is a cancer that we have to eliminate from the industry”. You can follow the full video at Vimeo . This speech incited a large number…

  • Agile + Waterfall = Hybrid

    Not only cars, also projects can be hybrid.  An upcoming theme in the last couple of years are waterfall-planned and agile-driven projects, or hybrid, if you like. A rule of the thumb seems to be that going hybrid makes sense when software development and infrastructure deployment are equally represented. A number of interesting blogs, articles,…

  • Will ISO 21500 help?

    Will ISO 21500 help? Well, you tell me. ISO is telling us the background and offers to purchase the document. A pocket guide can be pre-ordered at Amazon.  You should go for that one; I had it in my hand.  But beware of other initiatives. Some have already offered pricey courses for a kind-of-certification for certificate-hungry organisations and…