Posts Tagged ‘use cases’

19 Feb

Perspective: User Requirements for Technology Projects

Posted by ssmusoke in enterprenur, frugal innovation, software delivery, tips and tricks. Tagged: , , , , .

I was asked to talk about the handling of user requirements, how to link them to implementation within technology projects, by The Medical Concierge Group (TMCG) a digital ehealth service provider.

The key principles are being able to respond to change (agile), keep learning, and how to capture business/customer outcomes as well as improving communication across different departments and external stakeholders.

16 Jun

Software Development Process – The Journey

Posted by ssmusoke in java, software development lifecycle, web development. Tagged: , , , , .

I am starting a new set of topics on my experiences in the practical application of the software development lifecyle (SDLC). The tools are as important as the people, however a versatile process will always allow you to change one without the other.

My initial exposure to the SDLC was through the Rational Unified Process (RUP – http://bit.ly/mJq8Fu) in 2001 which along with the Unified Modelling Language (UML – http://www.uml.org/) during my days of Java development. Over the next 5 years there were a number of other influences:

  1. Eclipse (http://www.eclipse.org) vs JDeveloper
  2. Hibernate (http://www.hibernate.org/) Object Relational Mapping project, to ease the SQL needed to save and update POJOS (plain old java objects)
  3. Spring Framework (http://www.springsource.org) the first step towards a useable Java Framework from Rod Johnson, with Dependency Injection, XML bean configuration, Application Contexts all dealing with POJOS. I basically memorized his whole book J2EE Design and Development
  4. Martin Fowler, Refactoring – Changing the Design of Existing Code without affecting functionality
  5. Scott Ambler – Object-Relational Mismatch, Coding Standards, and Database Refactoring
  6. Kent Beck – Junit
  7. Design Patterns from the Gang of Four – while these were not immediately applicable, they were extensively referred to in refactoring and the spring framework
  8. Alistair Cockburn – Use cases – did not make so much sense till about 2 years ago
  9. Javaworld and the Serverside.com (http://www.theserverside.com) – excellently written articles on solving common problems and experiences before Google and StackOverflow (http://stackoverflow.com)
  10. Not forgetting the good old version control, have been using CVSNT (http://www.march-hare.com/cvspro/), yes CVS on Windows, however the product has been retired, so its almost time to move, though to what – Subversion, Mercurial, Bazaar???

Also mid-way was a change of programming languages from Java to PHP mainly due to ease of deployment for web applications.

Therefore the journey will touch on the different influences to a practical process that is still evolving.