My interests

I support projects (conceptual and hands-on), coach, and provide seminars in the following (often overlapping) three topics: Java/JEE, Agile strategies (including tooling), ALM/SCM.

Do you ask yourself one of the following questions?

• How can we create software the customer loves and do it quickly?
• How can we get the right mixture of isolation and team work to create the best collaborative environment?
• How can we set our customer up to win?
• How do we deliver our software products on time every time?

For 15 years, I have been teaching solutions to these questions and issues and passing along insights about the latest tools that make it possible to deliver beyond the customer's expectations, and I have found that Agile strategies and environments are critical in this regard.

In common business projects, technologies and frameworks are constantly extended or even replaced by new ones. Projects should not follow the herd, but rather seek out the best solution for a given problem, taking into account both short-term and long-term concerns. Cross cutting tasks spanning the complete software development lifecycle backing the core development process are also rapidly evolving. Such aspects include ALM, and the process model. The process model can be one that is feature-rich, traditional, a model nowadays associated with Agile, or a mixture.

For implementing requirements, a balanced approach is optimal, aligned to your concrete requirements and individual basic conditions. After chosing the right tools, they should be used and integrated in the most efficient way. This can be a selective adoption, or a "full lifecycle tooling", including tools for build management, testing and auditing. ALM protects your assets and boosts productivity. Although not a must, ALM should be enriched with Agile strategies.