Contents tagged with General Software Development
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Quote of the Week
"All too often, customers and managers don't know what they want until they don't get it."
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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.
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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 is one that is delivered on time, on budget and to specification. Delays, budget overruns and the delivery of solutions that aren't actually of value to stakeholders are common symptoms.
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Quote of the Week
"BPM is SOA’s killer application, while SOA is BPM’s enabling infrastructure." - Ismael Ghalimi
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Developers, Inheritance and Skills
Julian Bucknall (DevExpress) has written a great post on interface versus implementation inheritance, that also touches on developer skills.
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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 of the problem is that one really needs to clarify the perspective or audience the definition is addressing. For example to a .NET developer, a component might be "an object that implements IComponent", whereas, to a general audience a component might be "something that is a part of a larger system or structure".