On March 2nd, we are organizing another PHP management seminar in The Netherlands. In one afternoon, we'll update IT managers, CIOs, CEOs, CTOs and (web) development managers on some of the latest developments in PHP development. Topics this year are:

• Service APIs; More and more applications are written using webservices, and in this session we'll show you why.
• Performance: As the internet presence of companies grows, performance is an area many people continue to struggle with.
• Cloud computing: In a few years time, we will all be working with clouds. Now is the time to prepare and learn what this means for your application development efforts.
• Make or Buy'; this eternal question deals with choosing between using off the shelf applications or building your own.

A few years ago we worked for other customers, had fewer projects and a smaller geographic workfield than today. Today we operate in the whole country and also in Belgium, the UK and Scandinavia. We obviously have expanded our work field. Furthermore the assignments we do today have a shorter lead time, are larger and more complex than before.

A few years ago we focused more on the development. We started an assignment without or with only a small description of the required functionality. Today we are really convinced that a project won't succeed without a comprehensively functional and technical design. When we noticed the need of the designs we specialized developers in this initial part of an assignment . We also added the design phases, functional and technical, to our standard process.

Ibuildings wordt groter: de uit te voeren opdrachten zijn omvangrijker en ook het aantal medewerkers groeit elke maand. Voor mij, als projectmanager en teamleider, betekent dit dat ook mijn team steeds groter wordt. Terwijl ik me afvraag of we met deze steeds verder doorzettende stijging niet uit het pand groeien, probeer ik me te bedenken hoe mijn team er over een jaar uitziet. En hoe was de samenstelling van mijn team 1,5 jaar geleden?