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Agile Development Team Charter

Project Charters have rightfully focused on scope & goals for the project. However, team members can be unclear on their roles, activities, and expectations. This is especially true for people new to Agile. The Agile Development Team Charter addresses this gap by reviewing the Agile Prime Directive, Incremental Innovation Statements, and Team Member User Stories to provide clarity and context.

Terry Bunio
on Feb 27, 2012
Evolution in Data Integration From EII to Big Data

With the emergence of inexpensive cloud-based storage and cost-effective ways to process large volumes and complex data there has been a shift in approach toward data integration.

JP Morgenthal
on Feb 22, 2012
Faster, Better, Higher – But How?

One of the main challenges when designing software architecture is the consideration of quality attributes. Not only their design turns out to be difficult, but also the specification of these attributes. Consequently, many problems in software systems are directly related to the specification and design of quality attributes such as modifiability or performance, to name just a few.

Michael Stal
on Feb 20, 2012
Interview and Book Review: The CERT Oracle Secure Coding Standard for Java

"The CERT Oracle Secure Coding Standard for Java" book covers the rules for secure coding using Java programming language and its libraries with the goal to help Java developers eliminate insecure coding practices that can lead to vulnerable code. InfoQ spoke with book authors about how the security rules discussed in the book compare to other security coding frameworks.

Srini Penchikala
on Feb 15, 2012
Pattern-Based Architecture Reviews

In this IEEE article, authors Neil Harrison and Paris Avgeriou discuss a pattern-based architecture review (PBAR) process to help with system-wide quality attributes. They also discuss how PBAR approach helps with agile practices like frequent releases, changes for user needs, and lightweight documentation. They illustrate the benefits of PBAR process with a real-world project.

Paris Avgeriou Neil B. Harrison
on Feb 14, 2012
10 tips on how to prevent business value risk

One category of risk that project teams need to ensure they address is business value failure – delivering a product that fails to provide value for the business investor. The authors provide insight into the underlying causes of business value risk and provide ten tips on how to avoid them.

Chris Matts Olav Maassen
on Feb 07, 2012
Interview: Software Systems Architecture: Working With Stakeholders Using Viewpoints and Perspectives

Nick Rozanski and Eoin Woods have continued their journey of building a comprehensive handbook on Systems Software architecture with the publication of the second edition of Software Systems Architecture. InfoQ spoke to the authors on a couple of new topics, the System Context viewpoint and Agile, that are covered in the latest edition.

Jeevak Kasarkod
on Feb 07, 2012
Your Brain on Scrum

Status, Certainty, Autonomy, Relatedness, and Fairness are wired into the human brain. Michael de la Maza how the latest neuroscience findings support agile software development and that there are good brain-based reasons why agile is so effective.

Michael de la Maza
on Feb 02, 2012
Book Review and Interview: Java Performance, by Charlie Hunt and Binu John

Java Performance, by Charlie Hunt and Binu John, provides performance tuning advice for both Java SE and EE applications. Specifically, it provides information on performance monitoring, profiling, tuning HotSpot, and Java EE application performance tuning. InfoQ reviews the book, and talks to the authors about their approach.

Charles Humble
on Feb 01, 2012
New Book: Agile Software Engineering with Visual Studio

“Agile Software Engineering with Visual Studio – from Concept to Continuous Feedback” is a new book that provides a deep-dive into the Visual Studio-TFS features, that can help Agile teams manage their application lifecycle better. It is written by Sam Guckenheimer (Product Owner, Visual Studio Strategy at Microsoft) and Neno Loje (Independent ALM Consultant and TFS specialist).

Roopesh Shenoy
on Jan 26, 2012
Interview and Book Excerpt: Service Design Patterns

"Service Design Patterns" catalogs design patterns that cover the entire lifecycle of web services. This book is the latest addition to the Martin Fowler signature series which also contains a section on consumer driven contracts contributed by Ian Robinson. InfoQ talked to Rob Daigneau, the author of the book, regarding various topics related to the core idea behind "Service Design Patterns".

Jeevak Kasarkod
on Jan 20, 2012
Codesign Challenges for Exascale Systems: Performance, Power, and Reliability

In this IEEE article, authors talks about how a codesign methodology using modeling can benefit exascale computing systems with improved performance, power efficiency, and reliability. The five factors discussed in the codesign process are algorithms, application, programming model, runtime system, and hardware architecture.

Kevin J. Barker Abhinav Vishnu Darren J. Kerbyson Adolfy Hoisie
on Jan 17, 2012

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