Agile Cases » » AGILEcases http://www.agilecases.com a web of sketches, resources and comments Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:13:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 en Agile Case http://www.agilecases.com/agile-case/ http://www.agilecases.com/agile-case/#comments Sun, 23 Mar 2008 12:04:09 +0000 Peter http://www.agilecases.com/agile-case/ Agile Cases

]]> http://www.agilecases.com/agile-case/feed/ Defined a new categories and tagging sys … http://www.agilecases.com/2008/03/16/defined-a-new-categories-and-tagging-sys/ http://www.agilecases.com/2008/03/16/defined-a-new-categories-and-tagging-sys/#comments Sun, 16 Mar 2008 22:47:49 +0000 Peter http://www.agilecases.com/2008/03/16/defined-a-new-categories-and-tagging-sys/ Defined a new categories and tagging system for http://www.agilecases.com. Now I must describe the ideas and thoughts behind the new structure in a About page! And I most check all the existing topics to see if they are correctly placed in the new structure.

]]> http://www.agilecases.com/2008/03/16/defined-a-new-categories-and-tagging-sys/feed/ About http://www.agilecases.com/about/ http://www.agilecases.com/about/#comments Tue, 04 Mar 2008 03:32:57 +0000 Peter .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

.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 .com and started to use the site as an online notebook.

Why Agile Cases?

When I started .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 .com will be the notebook where I keep those notes.

The current structure of .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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