The Sympriser Blog » Featured http://blog.symprise.net Synergising the Enterprise through Software & Management Innovation Fri, 13 Jan 2012 05:46:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Revisiting Fowler’s Video Store: Refactoring Code, Refining Abstractions http://blog.symprise.net/2009/04/revisiting-fowlers-video-store-refactoring-code-reengineering-abstractions/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=revisiting-fowlers-video-store-refactoring-code-reengineering-abstractions http://blog.symprise.net/2009/04/revisiting-fowlers-video-store-refactoring-code-reengineering-abstractions/#comments Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:42:42 +0000 Rafael Peixoto de Azevedo http://sympriser.wordpress.com/?p=744 Why we still find hard to change, anaemic or overly complex object oriented structures? What is missing in our design practices? In this series, we use Fowler's didactic Video Store program to show practical advanced refactoring strategies that effectively improve design simplicity, expressiveness and flexibility.]]> http://blog.symprise.net/2009/04/revisiting-fowlers-video-store-refactoring-code-reengineering-abstractions/feed/ 3 PM Effectiveness – The Experience Trap http://blog.symprise.net/2008/05/pm-effectiveness-the-experience-trap/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pm-effectiveness-the-experience-trap http://blog.symprise.net/2008/05/pm-effectiveness-the-experience-trap/#comments Mon, 05 May 2008 17:23:54 +0000 Rafael Peixoto de Azevedo http://sympriser.wordpress.com/?p=403 Really?

This "conventional truth" is contradicted by INSEAD professors Sengupta and Van Wassenhove's research on experience-based learning.]]> http://blog.symprise.net/2008/05/pm-effectiveness-the-experience-trap/feed/ 0 Most Requirements are just Design Decisions http://blog.symprise.net/2008/04/most-requirements-are-just-design-decisions/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=most-requirements-are-just-design-decisions http://blog.symprise.net/2008/04/most-requirements-are-just-design-decisions/#comments Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:30:24 +0000 Rafael Peixoto de Azevedo http://sympriser.wordpress.com/?p=392 The language we use both reflects and influences our thinking. The term “requirements” has its roots on cartesian and bureaucratic thinking, that supposes a static and impersonal business world where specialists would be able to uncover, extract and document the definitive specifications for software systems.]]> http://blog.symprise.net/2008/04/most-requirements-are-just-design-decisions/feed/ 0