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links for 2007-10-24

• IBM takes Jazz development tools to school
  “The University of British Columbia has developed an extension to the Jazz platform that recommends who on a team should be working on a current problem based on how files have been changed in the past and who worked on those changes”
  (tags: IBM Rational Jazz)
• Government Next: NIC Presentation » SlideShare
  A wonderful presentation recomended by elsua
  (tags: presentations government trust)
• Eclipse Gains a Pulse
  PoweredByPulse: a new service from Genuitec will greatly simplify finding, assimilating and using the myriad plug-ins that support the Eclipse open-source development platform.
  (tags: eclipse plugins provisioning)
• Web2Summit: Complexity + Tight Coupling = Catastrophe
  Risk and failure in complex systems
  (tags: complexity coupling catastrophe)
• Defining Agile SCM: Past, Present & Future
  “We wish to elaborate what that means in terms of SCM for Agile development, but even more importantly in terms of how we should apply Agile, Lean and their related principles to SCM processes and procedures.”
  (tags: agile scm)
• STSC CrossTalk – Life Cycle of a Silver Bullet – Jul 2003
  “the silver bullets for our executives are those new management trends that promise to transform the way business is done.”
  (tags: business improvement process trends silverbullet)
• Why you need to take risks | Steve Tobak’s views on dysfunctional corporate behavior – CNET Blogs
  “In my experience, the single biggest factor holding people like you back from fulfilling their dreams is unwillingness to take risks.”
  (tags: job career risk)

MIKE2.0 Methodology

Via Anant Jhingran blog, today I discovered MIKE2.0 (Method for an Integrated Knowledge Environment), a nice initiative from BearingPoint which aims to be a collaborative, open source methodology for Enterprise Information Management and to provide an organizing framework for Information Development:

MIKE2.0 is a comprehensive methodology that can be applied across a number of different projects within the Information Management space, including those that apply to: Information Governance, Data Quality Improvement, Data Integration, Data Migration (once-off batch migration and parallel runs), Data Warehousing, Master Data Management and IT Transformation.

I didn’t had time to review the wiki contents (I’ll do in the next few days 😉 ), but what I really appreciate is the fact that they are releasing most of their content using a Creative Commons license and that they are using a collaborative model. Quoting David Weinberger:

If You Love Your Information, Set It Free.

They encourage every information management professional to join this open source community, to fully participate in this effort and to let them know what you think about the intellectual property they have shared. So if your job is related to the IM field, take a look and share your opinions with them.

Comments

Comment by kellyd on 2007-10-24 01:14:37 +0000

Neat stuff, Ferdy. Thanks for the links … I too will be exploring it further in the next few days.

Comment by Sean McClowry on 2007-10-25 15:14:14 +0000

Ferran,

Thanks for the post. Hope you like mike2.0 and feel free to hop in and contribute!

Sean

Laws Of Software Development

It’s a bit old, but I discovered these links today. Phil Haack collected together in a post 19 Eponymous Laws Of Software Development, and Joey deVilla, inspired by Phil’s article, collected more laws, axioms and rules pertaining to mainstream software development and put them in a nice, easy-to-read table in Laws of Software Development.

My personal favorite is the Conway’s Law:

Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.

Which is your personal favorite law?

Comments

Comment by Xavier on 2007-10-22 02:45:13 +0000

The Heisenbug concept has been painfully familiar to me during all my career. But at least, I started to get a laugh out of them when I learned to call them Heisenbugs.

WP-chgFontSize v1.3 and WP-DOPPLR v1.1 released

Just a short note to tell you I have updated these WordPress plugins:

• WP-chgFontSize v1.3:
  • New feature: widgetized version.
• WP-DOPPLR v1.1:
  • Use the Dopplr AuthSub process.

links for 2007-10-17

• DB2 for z/OS community collaboration
  This space is to bring together the community who works with DB2 for z/OS, both the people who use the product and the people on the team from IBM who develop,test, and service it.
  (tags: IBM db2 z/OS community)
• Interface21 Team Blog » The Spring Tool Suite
  “Spring Tool Suite” will bring together Spring IDE, the AspectJ Development Tools (AJDT), AspectJ, and Mylyn to create a task-focused approach to the development of Spring-powered enterprise applications.
  (tags: springframework IDE enterprise mylyn aspectj tools)
• InfoQ: Presentation: Implementing Scrum In A Distributed Software Development Organization
  “BMC Identity Management decided to build their next generation product, including architectural changes and component integration, using Scrum to handle the uncertainty of their product’s requirements.”
  (tags: agile scrum BMC distributed video)
• InfoQ: IntelliJ IDEA 7.0 Adds Spring/Hibernate Support, Eclipse Interoperability, and Maven Integration
  Ann Oreshnikova about the so-called polyglot programming: “Thus an IDE capable of supporting productive multi-language development, through seamless language and framework integration, should become the best developers’ friend.”
  (tags: IDE IntelliJ IDEA polyglot programming)
• Adding Simplicity – An Engineering Mantra: Gartner’s Top 10 Technologies for 2008
  Dan Pritchett’s post are always a must read
  (tags: green computing virtualization metadata architecture)
• InfoQ: Does the Agile Community Need a Maturity Model?
  “Producing value for the company is the only thing that matters. If we can do that via Agile methods and practices, then cool. If not, then why would I want to be “more Agile”?”
  (tags: agile enterprise value process methodology)
• Pete Lacey’s Weblog :: The Human Condition
  “given the constraints above: project driven cultures within IT and without, rapid technological and business change in the face of sunk costs, and the fact that the enterprise (indeed the world) is an anarchic place, how do we get people to build systems
  (tags: enterprise culture IT business architecture)