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Architectural Manifesto: Adopting Agile Development, Part 1 - Is Agile Development Right for Your Organization?: As agile development has grown in popularity over the past few years, many companies are considering how to take advantage of agile development processes and techniques. Though the author is not an agile evangelist, agile development techniques have proven to be beneficial in certain types of organizations and projects. Agile...; Tags: Development, Agile Development, Productivity; White papers 2008-03-18
Agile development, early warning, Darwin, and failure: Agile development, early warning, Darwin, and failureUp The ChainI'm not sure identifying projects that are doomed to fail, either because they are too hard or have a delusional value proposition, are usually pretty easy to identify.But you do you convince the guy a few layers up that not only is...; Tags: Development tools, Agile Development, programmer, early warning, Darwin; Discussion threads 2007-11-25
TIBCO boosts SOA-RIA market with donation of Ajax messaging bus to OpenAjax Alliance: TIBCO Software is easing the way for Ajax component interoperability with the donation this week of its core Ajax message bus technology to the OpenAjax Alliance OAA Hub project. TIBCO announced the donation today, at the same time as it released its PageBus, a related open source product. What's in...; Tags: Web Services, Software Infrastructure, Software Development, SOA architect, SOA, SaaS, Open Source, Internet, Enterprise 2.0, Developer Tools, Agile Development; Blog posts 2007-07-30
Red Hat takes SOA modeling tool concept to open source development: In an attempt to add grease to the skids of SOA adoption, Red Hat has agreed to take a patented concept for a services modeling approach and usher it through an open source community development process before eventually adding it to the JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform.Red Hat announced today that...; Tags: SOA architect, SOA, JBoss, Software Development, SOA Governance, Developer Tools, Software Infrastructure, Agile Development, Red Hat, Open Source; Blog posts 2007-07-24
SOA will fold into general enterprise architecture, Linthicum tells Open Group crowd: While enterprise architects EAs and services oriented architecture SOA architects are often at loggerheads today, the two will working hand in hand toward the same goals in a matter of a few years."In five years I don't think there will be SOA ... it's all going to fold back into...; Tags: Virtualization, Software Infrastructure, Software Development, SOA Governance, SOA architect, SOA, SaaS, ITIL, IT Service Management, IT Management, Enterprise 2.0, datacenters, Agile Development; Blog posts 2007-07-23

IT enters its most fertile development era ever: Information technology is now entering an unprecedented era of rapidly expanding development productivity. This is because of two unassailable facts: The number and types of people who can actively participate in software development are expanding, while -- at the same time -- we're seeing a rapid compression in the effort,...; Tags: Web Technology, Web Services, Virtualization, Software Infrastructure, Software Development, SaaS, Open Source, Microsoft Live, Microsoft, Internet, Google, Enterprise 2.0, Eclipse, Developer Tools, Application Lifecycle Management, Agile Development, .NET; Blog posts 2007-07-15
SOA and SaaS convergence points to new market demand for 'integration-as-a-service': Read a full transcript of the discussion. Sponsor: Cape Clear Software.Take SOA and SaaS to their natural maturation and adding more interoperability and integration into the online services mix becomes inevitable. When standardized services come from a variety of sources, then a variety of means to connect them makes more...; Tags: Web Services, Virtualization, Software Infrastructure, Software Development, SOA architect, SOA, SaaS, Podcasts, Internet, Enterprise 2.0, datacenters, convergence, Cape Clear, Application Lifecycle Management, Agile Development; Blog posts 2007-07-09
SOA demands a new 80-20 rule for application development: Services oriented architectures SOAs are not only forcing a new way of looking at how to construct applications and composite services -- SOA is now changing the meaning of what custom applications are and how they will be acquired. And this change has significant ramifications for IT developers, architects and...; Tags: Web Services, Software Development, SOA Governance, SOA architect, SOA, SAP, SaaS, Oracle, Microsoft Live, Microsoft, IT Service Management, IT Management, IBM, Intellectual Property, Enterprise 2.0, Developer Tools, Application Lifecycle Management, Agile Development; Blog posts 2007-07-08
Policy-based management may help bridge some pitfalls in SOA's evolution: I had a nice chat with Rich Seeley at TechTarget this week on SOA and management, and he produced this story. The major theme of the article is that SOA forces a new kind of management, one that's by necessity highly inclusive and crosses the borders of the emerging loosely...; Tags: Agile Development, Application Lifecycle Management, datacenters, Developer Tools, Enterprise 2.0, IBM, IT Management, IT Service Management, ITIL, management, SaaS, SOA, SOA architect, SOA Governance, Software Development, Software Infrastructure, Testing Tools, Web Services; Blog posts 2007-06-28
JBoss takes Exadel tools to Eclipse open source: JBoss.org and Red Hat this week took a significant step toward finalizing Red Hat Developer Studio with the introduction of the Exadel Eclipse plug-ins under open source.Tony Baer has a good write-up on this.Exadel contributed the plug-ins, along with Ajax4sf and RichFaces, to Red Hat last March with the goal...; Tags: Software Infrastructure, Software Development, SOA, Open Source, JBoss, IDEs, Enterprise Java, Eclipse, Developer Tools, Agile Development; Blog posts 2007-06-27
Telelogic acquisition takes IBM closer to the applications business: I just saw that IBM is buying Swedish development vendor Telelogic for $745 million, greasing the skids for the race of big software vendors to go even deeper on verticals and specialization.Just as IBM sidestepped the issue at their Innovate conference last month of whether they are getting into the...; Tags: Testing Tools, Software Infrastructure, IBM, Software Development, Embedded, Developer Tools, Application Lifecycle Management, Agile Development; Blog posts 2007-06-11
Mainsoft gives latest .NET developers a means to deploy widely without knowing Java: Mainsoft Corp. has sweetened the interoperability pot for .NET developers who want to run applications on Linux, Unix and Java EE platforms. The company today announced Version 2.0 of its Mainsoft for Java EE, which allows developers to code in the latest Visual Studio and run the applications on Java...; Tags: .NET, Adobe, Agile Development, Application Lifecycle Management, Developer Tools, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise Java, IBM, Java, Linux, Microsoft, Open Source, SOA, Software Development, Software Infrastructure, Windows; Blog posts 2007-06-06
SOA Insights analysts delve into SOA Consortium's advocacy objectives with OMG CEO Richard Soley: Read a full transcript of the discussion.When the hype curve descends, advocacy takes over. And so it is with the SOA Consortium, formed earlier this year to establish SOA as a business productivity benefit and to glean proven adoption paths and proof-points from primarily end-users and enterprises. The advocacy group's...; Tags: Agile Development, IT Management, ITIL, Podcasts, SOA, SOA architect, Software Development, Software Infrastructure; Blog posts 2007-05-25
Take a sneak peek at IBM Rational's Jazz collaborative ALM framework and community: Read a full transcript of the discussion.IBM helped the Eclipse Foundation score a huge hit with the Eclipse development framework and community. Now the software engineering target is even higher, but the methods and approaches are similar.IBM will in June will unveil details about its Jazz framework and community for...; Tags: Software Infrastructure, Software Development, SOA architect, SOA, SaaS, Podcasts, management, IT Service Management, IDEs, IBM, Enterprise Java, Eclipse, Developer Tools, Application Lifecycle Management, Agile Development; Blog posts 2007-05-20
ALM 2.0 era ushers application development into a managed business process: Read a full transcript of the podcast. Sponsor: Borland Software.Many people have defined software development as more art than science -- sometimes even a dark art. Thats why the business side of an enterprise is often perplexed by the Application Lifecycle Management ALM process. They see what goes in as...; Tags: Web Services, Testing Tools, Software Infrastructure, Software Development, SOA Governance, SOA, Podcasts, Open Source, management, Java, IT Management, Enterprise Java, Eclipse, Developer Tools, Application Lifecycle Management, Agile Development, .NET; Blog posts 2007-05-01
SOA architects must be as much evangelists and consensus-builders as technologists: Now that Service-Oriented Architecture SOA is percolating up inside enterprises -- sometimes as a set of strategic initiatives, but more often as discrete pilot projects -- the human resources needs are surfacing along with it. If youve got the right stuff, the budding role of SOA architect could be a...; Tags: Software Infrastructure, Software Development, SOA Governance, SOA architect, SOA, management, ITIL, IT Service Management, IT Management, Enterprise 2.0, Agile Development, .NET; Blog posts 2007-04-03
There's little chance Eclipse will suffer the same mistakes as Java: Colleague and frequent SOA Insights Edition contributor Tony Baer at OnStrategies has a nice context analysis of recent Eclipse Foundation news, and he wonders if Eclipse may be extending itself too thinly. He says this would follow the mistakes of the waning role of the Java Community Process JCP.I think...; Tags: Programming languages, Java development tools, Java, Sun Microsystems Inc., Eclipse; Blog posts 2007-03-12
OSGi gains momentum as .NET alternative at EclipseCon: Excellent story by Darryl K. Taft at eWeek on the Open Services Gateway Initiative OSGi framework. Its worth a read.Ill be digging into this more this week at the conference, for sure.; Tags: .NET, Agile Development, Apache, Developer Tools, Eclipse, Enterprise Java, Open Source, SOA, Software Development, Windows; Blog posts 2007-03-06
Red Hat strengthens tools-stack synergies with absorption of Exadel code into JBoss.org: Kicking off the EclipseCon developer pow-wow in Santa Clara, CA, this week, Red Hat will announce Monday that it has partnered deeply with Exadel to open-source the Exadel Studio Pro, RichFaces and Ajax4jsf tools under the JBoss.org community.Exadel Studio Pro provides a Web development environment for developers to work with...; Tags: management, GPL, JBoss, Red Hat, Agile Development, Developer Tools, Eclipse, Software Development, Windows, SOA, Linux, Enterprise Java, Open Source, Software Infrastructure; Blog posts 2007-03-04
SOA what else is new?: SOA actually stands for SOA Oriented Architecture. Let THAT bake your noodle.SOA is just one letter away from SOB. On purpose.The most dangerous animal in the IT jungle is the SOA constrictor. It has been known to squeeze the life out of all other IT initiatives.Software architects dont use SOA....; Tags: Agile Development, business intelligence, SOA; Blog posts 2007-03-03