About
AgileCases.com is my own private online notebook. I use it to capture my personal thoughts as little stories or sketches whenever I am online.
History
AgileCases.com does exist for some years now, mostly as a not so serious sandbox environment for playing with MediaWiki and WordPress. Some evidence of that can probably still be found in some dark corners of the Google databases :-).
Begin 2008 when I saw the Prologue theme for WordPress I installed WordPress an Prologue on AgileCases.com and started to use the site as an online notebook.
Why Agile Cases?
When I started AgileCases.com Agile was at the peak of its hype cycle. I was and still am interested in how systems are constantly being influenced by their environment and at the same time how systems are constantly influencing that same environment in a chaotic manner. In order to survive in a increasingly complex chaotic world a system and its direct environment must become more and more agile to be able to timely and adequately adapt to changes.
My first intention was to write a blog of cases of systems that succeeded or failed in being agile. But when I gained more experience as an Infrastructure Architect I have become more interested in thinking about why it is so hard to make a success of ICT projects while at the same time so many people acclaim their ICT-related processes, methods and tools which should make ICT projects a great success.
So after installing WordPress and Prologue I decided that my notes will be related more or less to the subject of “how to make a succes of ICT projects” and that AgileCases.com will be the notebook where I keep those notes.
The current structure of AgileCases.com
After some creative thinking and some failed trials I did implemented the following structure to my notebook. I use the words Agile Cases as acronyms for the following categories, which is the fixed part of the structure:
Activity
Goal
Information
Lesson
Event
Creativity
Architecture
Systems Thinking
Elements
Sketches
I’m using tags to define dynamically the different areas on which I focus with my notes. The five focus areas to which the most recent notes relate are listed at the top, the other focus areas are shown in a cloud based on popularity (which means the number of related notes).
For searching based on keywords I’m using the standard WordPress functionality.
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