What most people (80/20) seem to “know” about CMMI and the SCAMPI appraisal method comes from what people learned and how they used CMM and CMMI in the early adoption phase. However, instead of innovating and using engineering to create appropriate processes, they just reused old and often poorly-fitting processes …
Pursuing an unquestioning belief in economy of scale, managers of service organizations have industrialized their operations. Front- and back-offices, glued together by IT systems are now the norm. But being normal is not the same as being right. Building on the work of W. Edwards Deming (‘we invented management, we …
This video show the relationships between Unified Modeling Language use cases and sequence diagrams.
Sam Guckenheimer has been the chief customer advocate for VSTS, responsible for its end-to-end external design. He describes his book, Software Engineering with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System, as a framework for thinking about software projects in a way that can be directly tooled by VSTS. It presents essential theory …
Alex Plant interviews Simon Phipps, Chief Open Source Officer and Director of Open Technologies Practice at Sun Microsystems, in the studio at JavaOne 200.
