Software Best Practices

Peter Eeles and I must be subconsciously on the same page. Because at the same time I was blogging about Software Architecture Views and Perspectives and Software Architecture Quality Attributes and their direct applicability to SCM/ALM solution architecture (and software process in general), Peter was...

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...

Charles Betz' book Architecture and Patterns for IT Service Management, Resource Planning, and Governance: Making Shoes for the Cobbler's Children really ought to be required reading for anyone that fancies themselves a "CM professional" (especially Software CM) or an "Enterprise...

In my last blog-entry I wondered if the interface segregation principle (ISP) translated into something about baselines/configuration, or codelines, or workspaces, or build-management. Then I asked if it might possibly relate to all them, Here's a somewhat scary thought (or "cool" depending...