Software Best Practices

Extending the analogy of software architecture views and quality attributes for software process architecture , I'd like to spend some time discussing how software product lines relate to software process architecture and "common processes" across an enterprise. Many organizations strive...

After my previous postings on Software Architecture Views and Perspectives , Software Architecture Quality Attributes and Software Modifiability Tactics , the question remains as to what all this has to do with Agile processes or with CM. Well, about a year ago I wrote that Software CM is NOT a Process...

After my previous postings on Software Architecture Views and Perspectives , Software Architecture Quality Attributes and Software Modifiability Tactics , the question remains as to what all this has to do with Agile processes or with CM. Well, about a year ago I wrote that Software CM is NOT a Process...

The (hopefully) provocative title of today's blog-entry is inspired by Phil Armour's essay " Software is Not a Product! ", which is one of many profoundly insightful essay's from his book The Laws of Software Process . Armour maintains that: The core issue with the business of software...

Nice article on Defining Design Quality at InfoQ.com . The article heavily references the work of James Shore , who is currently working on a book with chromatic entitled " The Art of Agility ". It has a pretty nice definition of design quality: "A good software design minimizes the time...

Interesting paper from Linda Levine and the SEI about Reflections on Software Agility and Agile Methods: Challenges, Dillemmas & the Way Ahead (see the corresponding presentation slides ) Some other related documents from the SEI are: Systems of Systems: Scaling Up the Development Process ; by Watts...