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Interview with Michael Azoff from Ovum about How To Create the Agile Enterprise

Large enterprises face three challenges: to innovate and act as a start-up, to use a budgeting process that keeps the organization’s strategy in touch with changing market conditions, and to transform the whole IT department to agile. Principal analyst Michael Azoff explains Ovum’s view on creating an agile enterprise.

Ben Linders
on Apr 10, 2013
Interview and Book Review: DSL Engineering

Markus Völter, one of the authors of "Model-Driven Software Development", has published a new book in the field of model-driven software development (MDSD). "DSL Engineering" focusses on the design and implementation of domain specific languages (DSLs).

Ralph Winzinger
on Apr 09, 2013
Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon London 2013

This article presents the main takeaway points as seen by the many attendees who blogged or tweeted about QCon. Comments are organized by tracks and sessions: Keynotes, Distributed Systems / REST, The Java Developer Track, The Developer Track, Building for Clouds, Real Startups, Creative Thinking & Visual Problem-solving, Handheld Banking and many more!

Abel Avram
on Apr 05, 2013
Choosing the Right ESB for Your Integration Needs

Kai Wähner explains the differences between an integration framework, an ESB and an integration suite, following with advice for selecting the right one from existing commercial and open source solutions.

Kai Wähner
on Apr 02, 2013
Capturing Compliance Requirements: A Pattern-Based Approach

Assuring compliance across an enterprise is critical and necessitates a holistic approach for defining a consistent set of process and system level controls. In this article, authors discuss a new pattern-based framework to capture and manage business process compliance requirements. They also talk about implementation of the framework and two case studies in banking and e-business domains.

Amal Elgammal Willem-Jan van den Heuvel Oktay Turetken Michael P. Papazoglou
on Mar 27, 2013
Architecture & Design

How Would You Build Up a City from Components?

Aliaksei Papou explores how components and common design patterns such as the Observer and Finite State Machine make it possible to design an application such that it can grow and change according to your needs using the analogy of a house.

Aliaksei Papou
on Mar 25, 2013
Application Performance Management Maturity Model

In this article, author Jim Hirschauer justifies the importance of application performance management (APM) process in organizations. He also describes a maturity model for application performance management with three different levels of maturity.

Jim Hirschauer
on Mar 22, 2013
Evaluating Agile and Scrum with Other Software Methodologies

Historical data is a key resource for judging the effectiveness of software process improvement methods and also for calibrating software estimation accuracy. In this article, Capers Jones compares Agile and Scrum with a sample of contemporary software development methods using several standard metrics.

Capers Jones
on Mar 20, 2013
Hybrid Mobile Apps with ASP.NET MVC

Daniel Jebaraj demonstrates creating hybrid mobile apps with Android and ASP.NET MVC.

Daniel Jebaraj
on Mar 12, 2013
Growing EAI with Apache Camel

This article comprises practical examples of typical integration challenges and explores how Apache Camel can meet these challenges. These examples are presented in the context of an integration solution that starts simply but grows over time as new integration needs arise. The article concentrates on how Camel helps managing complexity and keeping the team productive.

Frans van der Lek
on Mar 06, 2013
Design Pattern Automation

Despite the high total cost of ownership of a line of code, a lot of boilerplate code still gets written every day. Much of it could be avoided if we only had smarter compilers. Indeed, most boilerplate code stems from repetitive implementation of design patterns that are so well-understood that they could be implemented automatically if we had a way to teach it to compilers.

Gael Fraiteur Yan Cui
on Mar 05, 2013
Self-Organizing Organizations (For Real)

This is a true story about a company that operates under principles of self-organization. It is organized according to the free will of each individual in the company, all of them freely choosing to co-operate for achieving some goals. All you’ve ever wanted to know about self-organized companies, without daring actually run one.

Emmanuel Gaillot
on Mar 04, 2013