Software Best Practices

Getting back to the subject of my previous blog-entries on Software Architecture Views and Perspectives and Software Architecture Quality Attributes , I wanted to talk more specifically about the quality attribute of Modifiability . The Modifiability of a software system is related to how minimal is...

Following on to my previous blog-entry about Software Architecture Views and Perspectives , the book " Software Architecture in Practice " also describes a method called Attribute-Driven Design or ADD. This is not yet-another-design-method like BDD or TDD. ADD is concerned software architectural...

I'm fairly interested in the literature on Software Architecture Views and Perspectives. Folks here may remember by work on Dimensions and Views of SCM Architecture as one of the reasons why ... The text of the entire 2nd edition of the " Software Architecture in Practice " textbook is...

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...

There are a lot of REALLY GOOD manifestos over at ChangeThis.com ! Back in May 2006 I blogged about Simplicity in Design and included several links/resources on the subject. Turns out ChangeThis.com has a few good manifestos on the subject as well (and gets more every month). Here are the ones I liked...