Why do 66% of all IT projects fail, 20% go over time and budget?! With over 20 years of IT experience, Sander Hoogendoorn talks about project anti-patterns stereotyping them as Titanic projects, Golf course projects and many more. Very enjoyable presentation.
In his role of principal technology officer at Capgemini, Sander Hoogendoorn is concerned with innovation of software development. He is also responsible for Capgemini agile software development platform, called Accelerated Delivery Platform (ADP) and is recognized as a global thought leader on agile development at Capgemini.
Sander's expertise ranges from (agile and non-agile) software development methodologies, software architecture, design patterns, modeling, UML, model driven software development, .Net, Java and tools. He coaches organizations and projects and has published numerous articles and columns in international magazines, such as OBJECTSpectrum, Internation Developer, Software Release Magazine, and has written books on UML and agile development. Besides that Sander is a frequent speaker at Dutch and international conferences, which include OOP, JAOO, SET, Javapolis, TDWI and DevDays. Sander also runs seminars and worshops on UML, ..Net, design patterns, agile development both in the Netherlands and in Belgium.
The ADP platform allows Capgemini and its customers to industrialize projects using the accelerators the platform offers, such as Smart lifecycle, the use of smart use cases, pragmatic smart use case based estimation techniques, agile dashboarding and burn charting to monitor project progress, model driven development, code generation, frameworks and unified testing techniques. Elements of the platform are adopted by a fast growing international community, as well within Capgemini as with its customers. ADP accelerators have been used by several types of projects, including .Net, Java, Sharepoint, and more recently in SAP implementations and BI.
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