Tony van Büüren van Heijst

This was a great session by John Rymer and Dave West.  They provided some interesting stats: •    80-90% of IT spend is on software maintenance •    Business are demanding innovation •    Time to market is more critical now than ever before. These three stats should be staring you ri... (more)

Last week, I attended Forrester's IT Forum in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.  In looking back over my notes I wanted to share some of the highlights.  The first keynote started off with the resounding words:  "Never Waste a Good Crisis".  Bobby Cameron, Vice President, Principal Analyst... (more)

Michael Krigsman recently asked the questions "Do CEO's *really* care about IT?"  and reviewed a panel discussion by CEO's from tech companies talking about the issues of Business-IT alignment. He says, after listening to that discussion "it appears little progress has made been ... (more)

During last week's Agile-in-a-Day workshop in the Netherlands, I participated in an interesting discussion with the group of 25+ current and future Agile practitioners - on the impact of Agile methodologies on well established corporate processes and culture. In particular, on th... (more)

Recently industry analysts, press, and bloggers have been writing about the state of service-oriented architecture (SOA) and whether it's "dead" or in the "trough of disillusionment." These discussions have been fueled by surveys that suggest a decline in the number of organizat... (more)

If you are wondering what NextStep'09 was all about, the following highlight reel from our 2009 event shows all our Agile conference attendees in action - from keynotes to sessions, partner pavilion and opening reception. If you attended the event this year - OutSystems customers,... (more)

As promised, the customer, partner and OutSystems presentations that were given at the NextStep '09 conference are now available online. These include great case studies on Agile development, Agile technical tips and tricks, and discussions on the future of agile, adoption and bu... (more)

Yes, it took an entire weekend to recover from NextStep! But we're back and just wanted to wrap-up an amazing Agile conference. First, the OutSystems team would like to thank everyone - guest speakers, customers, partners, members of the press and OutSystems employees - for comin... (more)

Gem, User Experience Engineer of OutSystems, closed track 2 sessions by talking about how usability and agility can work well together. Gem started by highlighting the similarities between usability and Agile, including the fact that they are iterative and that they both mean extra... (more)

The last session of track 1 was presented by OutSystems Partner Normatica, represented by Alexandre Mano, and OutSystems Customer Dr. Marcelo Mendonça de Carvalho of Gabinete do Secretário de Estado Adjunto da Administração Local. Alexandre introduced the RJUE Project (Regime Ju... (more)

Ana Paula of Whatever Consulting spoke this afternoon on "OutPractices: Agile Transformations of any Software Development Process". She talked to us about a subject close to her heart - the Eclipse Process Framework (EPF) which aims at producing a customizable software process en... (more)

Hugo Sousa, IT Director of Turismo de Portugal, started out by sharing with the audience his commitment to the business goals of Turismo de Portugal. For that, he showed us his project goals:  Measure and get 90% satisfaction People are all that matters Do IT better This is a ve... (more)

Our next presentation was by Stefan Meier, Associate Director, Software Development, Information Sciences Department at XDx. Xdx is a biotech company that relies on software and technology for their Molecular Diagnostic Technology. They assess patients who have had a heart transp... (more)

Eric ten Harkel, founder and manager of COOLProfs, started this really insightful and humorous look at some provocative reasons a company shouldn't use Model Driven Development:  You want to hide behind technologyProducing hours is all that mattersMethodology over deliveryYour ... (more)

Miguel Barreto, CEO of Home Energy spoke to us next on "Launching a New Company in a Fast and Agile Way" Home Energy is a new company that's part of the Martifer, a Portuguese renewable group. Home Energy was established in May 2008 with a goal of being a market leader in a new s... (more)

Nuno Teles, Service Operations Director at OutSystems, launched the afternoon here at track 2 by talking about the challenges of scoping and sizing an Agile project. Agile projects are not based on lengthy specifications and piles of documents. Instead, they are focused on a clea... (more)

Next up at NextStep - Marteijn Mout who is the project managers of the 'New meter market model' at E.ON Benelux. E.ON is one of Europe's largest Energy providers with over 30 million customers in 30 countries.  E.ON Benelux has around 270,000 customers and they have been a custom... (more)

This morning's last presentation on track 2 was delivered by Rui Afonso, OutSystems Channel Manager at Hyfas. The presentation was about Hyfas success story at Refrige.  Refrige had a very complex material creation process, that spanned across 7 distinct departments. Communicatio... (more)

In this NextStep session Pedro Rosa Santos who leads the consulting services team for Keep it Simple, an OutSystems Partner, addressed how Dynamic Business Applications can play a big part in the Insurance industry. Pedro described the quantum leap experienced in the Insurance indu... (more)