FamilySearch.org Case Study
Merlin Carpenter and Tim Stokes present the architecture of FamilySearch.org, a website and a system keeping track of historical data –birth, marriage, death, census records- of over 2 billion people.
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IBM’s Software Architecture for Astronomically Big Data
IBM has recently prototyped a software architecture that can deal with large amount of data flows. IBM’s software is built for the SKA telescope (Square Kilometre Array) and allows to automatically classify astronomical objects. Radio astronomer Melanie Johnston-Hollitt at Victoria University, Wellington , NZ, has collaborated with IBM for developing the system.
Can Agile Practices Prevent ERP Disaster
Will the U.S. Military's adoption of agile practices lead to ERP implementation success? This article explores the emerging trend of using agile practices in ERP implementations with a focus on the U.S. Military's recent announcement on November 3rd to abandon a waterfall approach and closed standards for its ERP system.
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JetBrains Developer Tools
JetBrains is one of the few companies that thrives selling developer tools. In this interview you get some insight in their strategies, current and new products and future plans.
Agile Finance: Story Point Cost
This article ties a rather abstract and developer centered concept (story points) to the real world of business (spreadsheets and ledgers). Making this connection is essential for management.
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Brownfield to Green
Nat Pryce presents the reengineering effort made to transform a legacy system through incremental improvement, the development process implemented, the results and some takeaway lessons learned.
Bushido, and the Art of Staying Sane in the Game Development Business
Lars Kroll Kristensen shares the lessons learned from the rise and fall of Runestone, lessons applied in another game development company, Unity Studios.
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Steve Levin on Challenges Developing for Multiple Mobile Platforms
Steve Levin, VP at scanR, shares his experience and insight on the challenges developing an application for multiple mobile devices and platforms. He mentions the hardware difficulties encountered, the common software incompatibilities they had to surmount, and some details on what it takes to sell an application through online application stores.
Dan Grigsby Shares Secrets of Successful Entrepreneurship
In this interview made by InfoQ’s Rob Bazinet during RubyFringe 2008, Dan Grigsby talks about programming and entrepreneurship, how a programmer can take his idea and transform it into a successful product.
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Scrum and XP from the Trenches
For those getting started with Agile, this book offers a detailed first-person account of how one Swedish company implemented Scrum and XP with a distributed team of 40 people, and how they continuously improved their process over a year’s time.
