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The Seven Information Smells of Domain Modelling

Domain modelling is a powerful technique that many IT professionals have in their toolkit. Unfortunately a couple of issues with domain modelling have caused it to fall out of favour over the past few years, especially in Agile circles. Two real problems with the approach are that it takes too long, and that it is prone to “analysis paralysis”. This is an approach that addresses these issues.

Kent McDonald Chris Matts
on Apr 18, 2013
Ember.js - Web Applications Done Right

This article explains the Ember.js application development model and shows how to use it to build your first client-side JavaScript web application with the framework.

Joachim Haagen Skeie
on Apr 17, 2013
Agile Software Architecture Sketches and NoUML

Understanding the software architecture of what you're building can prevent chaos and encourage collective code ownership. In the race for agility though, many teams struggle to do this, particularly since they've abandoned UML in favour of "boxes and lines" sketches. Moving fast requires good communication, but how do you do this without resorting to big design up front and UML?

Simon Brown
on Apr 16, 2013
Joe Duffy on Uniqueness and Reference Immutability for Safe Parallelism

We interviewed Joe Duffy, author of Concurrent Programming on Windows, about his research into the use of type systems to ensure safe parallelism. This work was presented in the paper titled Uniqueness and Reference Immutability for Safe Parallelism. We asked for this interview because there seemed to be a lot of misconceptions about this research project.

Jonathan Allen
on Apr 11, 2013
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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
The Real Question is Why?

The Agile movement has driven a revolutionary change in the way we build and deliver software solutions. In the past few years Agile frameworks have become mainstream. Agile has solved the problems of the 90's and early 2000's. Now a new kind of problem is emerging that needs an equally elegant solution, how do we build the right solution? Do we know Why we are building it?

Gordon Weir Russ Miles
on Apr 08, 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
Bridging the Management Gap

As Agile becomes widely accepted within IT organizations, one roadblock to more significant organizational change is becoming clear - resistance from management. Traditional command & control management no longer suffices in a globalized, knowledge-based economy. When will we reach the tipping point where organizations unshackle themselves from the limitations of command & control?

Tiago Garcez
on Apr 01, 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
Kanban Pioneer: Interview with David J. Anderson

David J. Anderson, pioneer in Kanban for software development, recently came to Brazil. A group of InfoQ Brasil editors interviewed David about Lean, Agile and Kanban. See the highlights of the interview.

Anselmo Martelini Rafael Buzon Eric Fer Leonardo Campos
on Mar 26, 2013

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