Architect Consultant blog

Nowadays there are a lot of standard processes within healthcare, school and IT. That takes away our ability to think for ourselfs. I see that people use the processes as an excuse and do not think for themselves anymore. How can i help my customer for the best, or how can i teach this child for the best. I have read the following book of Barry Schwartz: Practical Wisdom I really liked the book and i can recommend it, because it gives inspiration to think about. How can i help my customer for the best? Is this the solution that will help my customer? I understand that we need rules, standards and processes, but that does not mean that those are the holy grail. That's why i like a more Agile approach than working out big plans, that may have changed before you even finished the plan. Sitting together with the customer thinking about the best solution at that time. Very inspiring book !

On Thursday the 12th of september I visited the Dream Event in Houten. This is a small recap of the event. Theme Dream stands for Dutch Requirement Engineering And Management and is the only event within the Netherlands specifically about Requirements. The event had some very interesting speakers, of which James Taylor is probably the most famous one. The presentations were very diverse and with some kind of relation towards requirements of course. James Taylor - Simpler, smarter and more agile processes His talk was about making processes simpler, smarter and more agile by using business rules. So looking at if-the-else constructions within the processes, that have high impact on the processes. Not the best presentation i have seen, but this is my personal opinion. It was very formal and not much new information for me. It should be common practive when you want to have your processes flexible and agile. I do understand though that this is probably not common sense in most o...