Y Society

Y Society

Following the ideas of Gunter Dueck, philosopher and former CTO of IBM Germany, for an advanced society (focussed on a quarternary economic sector and a view of mankind that is based on theory Y by Douglas McGregor) some thoughts about how (project) managers become starry-eyed idealists (in a positive sense) improving their environment and society in the end.
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Blue Scrum Project Management

Blue Scrum Project Management

The classic project management style is changing to an agile one. The Scrum Framework is one of the leading techniques to do so and on its way to an industry standard. Although, if you have a look at it from the project managers point of view first of all you get a development process model. Important parts and roles are missing to describe a full-blown agile project management. Some thoughts about extending the Scrum framework with parts from the IPMA standard in preparation for the Scrum Blue Book – A Blueprint for an IT Project Management based on the Scrum Framework.
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Java Development

Java Development

The java development stuff you can find here is the result of my JEE web development years – with a focus on JSF/ICEfaces and the Spring Framework. The result of all this is my book ICEfaces 1.8: Next Generation Enterprise Web Development, Packt Publishing, 2009.
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