Author Sieuwert van Otterloo
Dr. Sieuwert van Otterloo is a court-certified IT expert with interests in agile, security, software research and IT-contracts. He is a also an ISO 27001 and NEN 7510 auditor and AI researcher.
All candidates pass the ISO 27001 lead auditor exam
Congratulation to the candidates of our recent ISO 27001 lead auditor course. All candidates (Jan-Jasper, Joost, Floris, Sieuwert) that participate in this five day course have passed the exam. They can now call themselves IRCA certified information security auditors and are well equipped for key roles in information security teams.
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How to handle privacy issues in IT projects
New privacy laws have made it mandatory to consider any privacy issues in any IT project. In this blog posts we provide several examples of hidden privacy issues in software projects, and explain how a project manager can handle these issues.
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A checklist for improving IT project schedules
With ICT Institute we visit a dozen software teams every quarter, in order to review their work and help them improve their project plan. About half the teams work in an agile fashion, the other half are using traditional project management. Most teams, luckily, are functioning well and are delivering value. Many teams are however behind schedule. They have underestimated…
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Financial project analysis with NPV
Reducing a software project to a financial number like NPV and IRR might seem like a shallow way to look at a project, and thus not agile. It turns out however that such a financial analysis can be very helpful to find out what a project really is about. This year we added portfolio management…
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Predicting the most popular programming languages
Software researcher Erik Bernhardsson is trying to predict which programming languages are popular in the future, by counting the number of ‘switch from A to B’ blogs on the Internet. The results are surprising. The top 5 consists not only contains new language Go but also the older languages Python, Java, C and C++.
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