A client I am working with is porting several green screen applications to J2EE and one thing that keeps popping up is that we need to develop an architecture that will support these applications for the next 20 years just like the last one did. Dan Appleman posted about how he doubts that Microsoft...

In many organization I've encountered there is this artificial distinction between the new development group and the maintenance programming group. Why on God's green earth would you want to do such a thing? Every time the topic comes up I point out that there is only "maintenance" since once you have...

A client I am working with is porting several green screen applications to J2EE and one thing that keeps popping up is that we need to develop an architecture that will support these applications for the next 20 years just like the last one did. Dan Appleman posted about how he doubts that Microsoft...

In many organization I've encountered there is this artificial distinction between the new development group and the maintenance programming group. Why on God's green earth would you want to do such a thing? Every time the topic comes up I point out that there is only "maintenance" since once you have...

Max Wideman got permission to reprint Jim Highsmith's article The Chaos Report - Reality Challenged . Jim takes on the Chaos report for their definitions of success and failure. This is something that has bothered me for years. I've been on several "failed" projects over the years that were wildly successful...