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" All too often, customers and managers don't know what they want until they don't get it. " Hitchhiker's Guide to Visual Studio and SQL Server, 7th Edition: Best Practice Architectures and Examples ( Amazon ) R. Vaughn William, Peter Blackburn Addison...

Posted Friday, August 31, 2007 2:50 PM by Alex Hoffman | with no comments

Forrester and Gartner - BPM Tools Research Online
The Proforma site, currently has the Forrester Wave and Gartner Magic Quadrant documents for BPM tools available online. IDS Scheer via ARIS maintains its lead, but is being challenged by Proforma and MEGA.

Posted Saturday, December 02, 2006 10:59 AM by Alex Hoffman | 2 comment(s)

Our Industry's Dark Side?
It's generally acknowleged that bringing a non-trivial software project to a successful conclusion is problematic. Sadly statistics confirm that few projects can be regarded as successful when one strictly applies the criteria that a successful project...

Posted Thursday, July 20, 2006 3:19 PM by Alex Hoffman | with no comments

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"BPM is SOA’s killer application, while SOA is BPM’s enabling infrastructure." - Ismael Ghalimi

Posted Monday, July 17, 2006 6:49 PM by Alex Hoffman | with no comments

Developers, Inheritance and Skills
Julian Bucknall (DevExpress) has written a great post on interface versus implementation inheritance, that also touches on developer skills. For me, having developers produce loosely coupled objects that have a single responsibility and which support...

Posted Monday, May 29, 2006 2:27 PM by Alex Hoffman | 4 comment(s)

Definitions and "Application"
Ralf Westphal has been pondering the meaning of the term "application". I always find definitions important because all too often I find myself talking at cross purposes with others, because we are actually talking about different things. Part...

Posted Sunday, May 01, 2005 9:50 AM by Alex Hoffman | with no comments

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