JavaFX
JavaFX – The sweetest temptation since there is GUI JavaFX 2 Oracle has unpacked the old Sun Vision of a brand new UI toolkit and finally got up and running properly. You will notice this fact lies a...
View ArticleThe Best Drawing Tool
As a student I had an assistant job at the university for a creating computer graphics. Corel Draw was very useful this days .. Somehow, as developer I often was tortured using Visio, for whatever...
View ArticleBugtracking Board
Bugfixing can be Fun In my experience, even in spite of test-driven development, stabilization phase is often a hard job in the software projects. The bugs have to be fixed in the shortest time...
View ArticleModule Cards
Using Cards instead of Software Tools Todays software systems are becoming more and more complex. To get the complexity under control, it is therefore increasingly necessary to divide the system into...
View ArticleDesign Thinking
I’m a fan of visual thinking and creative techniques on the whiteboard with a pile of index cards making it easy for analyzing systems and new requirements. In my opinion a must. There was a workshop...
View ArticleThe Project Hero is riding lonesome
Sometimes it is a slightly different experience that trigger a wow effect and will change your mind forever … Once upon a time my Son Gabriel has participated in the “Wild West Camp” – organized by an...
View ArticleMore Smalltalk instead of Programming Java
Thinking about the Agile Community it seems ob obvious, how many approaches, best practices and even design patterns were invented in the Smalltalk Community (like TDD , Pair-Programming MVC Pattern)....
View ArticleMind Graph
A few days ago my sons started to design their own website. For a good start I adviced them to fixture their ideas on paper. So they started writing the complete navigation part using text labels. In...
View ArticleTeamware by Atlassian
inspired by Thomas Mueller: @zaroselectro, who give me the tip for using confluence at home … Atlassian is know for its jira issue tracker, but more and more the company has added solutions for...
View ArticleSlideology
Nancy Duarte has coined a term for the creation of a well-structured presentation with Slideology (nice before / after comparison), without the otherwise commonly used “Bullet Points Lists” – my...
View ArticleTable Decoration
Place cards Stakeholder Analysis Especially at the beginning of a project, it makes sense to create a map of all parties – who supports your ideas, but also who is more of an opponent? Product Owner –...
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Visual Thinking Dan Roam has developed a universal problem-solving methodology that relies on the power of images and the “Code of Visual Thinking” offers a suitable diagram for any application. His...
View ArticleKreativ durch Wissen und Erfahrung (GER)
(image found by @ValaAfshar on twitter) Schon seit Steve Jobs ist bekannt: nur den wenigsten ist es in die Wiege gelegt, etwas komplett neues zu „erfinden“: Alle Anderen kombinieren eher das Bekannte,...
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