Lots of conventionally-managed software projects do not include reliable execution by deadline, or are on budget, or to all features of the specification; it's a rare `managed' project that meets even one of these goals, let alone all three. Those projects do not appear to be market conform when it comes to cost, and those projects misses most of the time the ability to adapt to changes in technology and economic context during the project lifetime, either; the open-source community has proven far more effective on that score.

I was wondering if James Dobson statements could be backed up with our Gridshore thinking which is based upon the Open-Source community process and it can in my opinion.

Lets sharpen the saw by reacting on this post.

JavaPolis 2005 will take place on December 12th untill the 16th 2005 in Antwerp, venue MetroPolis.

I will attend with 10 of my Java group. This Blog entry can be used to comment on the JavaPolis.

The Dutch Java User Group has organised a succesfull JFall meeting.

I have attended this event with 20 people of my Java Group. And this blog will contain some of their observations.

This is the group attending the conference.

Freddie van Rijswijk is manager Custom Software Development (J2EE & Web). His main interest is improving people performance and to make their and his life better by looking for ways to be better prepared for the job (education, coaching) and to avoid unnessary traveling. He's doing this by encourage Continuous Improvement by coaching and education and by applying agile and lean programming principles. The Open-Source Community Model of working his it's main inspiration.