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Alistair Cockburn about software development PDF Print E-mail

In a recent talk, well-known 'agilist' Alistair Cockburn described the nature of software development. Among other things he claims that software development is about 'technology. people. value' (in our words, not his), and points out where scalable design fits (again in our words, not his): software development as a co-operative game that is open-ended or infinite. 

 
Scalable Agile Development--a first stab PDF Print E-mail

Agile development is currently popularized at great speed; and in general, that is great. However, this causes some misconceptions and simplicifications to catch solid ground in the development community; here we discuss particularly the role of (architecture) design in achieving solutions that scale with the changes that agile stresses so much.

 

 
"You don't know jack about software maintenance" PDF Print E-mail

this is the title of a recent CACM article, that argues that there is not enough focus on preparing software for maintainability.

 
Design patterns as composition operators PDF Print E-mail

Design patterns typically capture the composition and interactions among a number of objects; as such, they can be considered as excellent examples of domain-specific compositions.

 
Why "Scalable Design"? PDF Print E-mail

A brief discussion of the usage of the term scalable design as a potential company name.

 


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