What is architecture? Which could be the shared properties among diverse schools of thought and practice of architecture? Complexity management is possibly a common property among these kinds of design disciplines. Such complexity is present in many respects;...

A presentation by Bjarne Stroustrup, creator of C++, about good programing styles. This presentation was dedicated to Dennis Ritchie, creator of C. Note of relevance: The C programming language, in one way or another, is at the bottom of all existing...

The creation of software-based business solutions, also known as application development, could benefit a lot from specific kinds of development processes; in particular those controlled empirically, like those with an iterative and incremental kernel...

Time ago I posted about the obsolescence of some theories for project management ( The underlying Theory of Project Management is Obsolete ) and, hence, about the need for better theories not just for management. In my journey as a software professional...

How bad could organizational hierarchies be for the advance of professionalism in the business of software creation? In particular, command and control organizational hierarchies derived from misinterpretations of the concept of ‘governance’...

Building trust is precisely what I look for when I think about adaptive development in general. We, as creators and as consumers of software, need better levels of trust at many levels. The directors of the European Space Agency surely wanted a better...

In addition to this : Do you think that instead of "We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it." people tend to adopt "We are uncovering the only ways of developing software teaching others."? Yes,...

For those interested in answer a survey or questionnaire by Giancarlo Succi and Andrea Janes: http://darkagilemanifesto.org Let me also post here my comments for further discussion: Part 1 Do you think that instead of "We are uncovering better...

Task: as a breadth developer, I need to analyze a set of VB6 legacy applications and enlist all stored procedures invoked per subroutine per application. Is this a task for a breadth developer? Let’s consider this criterion: if the number of...

There is the notion of breadth developer, which encompasses the attitudes of the practical mindset: How can I do such and such task in a straightforward way? For example, I need to analyze a set of VB6 legacy applications and enlist all stored procedures...

The subject matter of « software engineering » has been of enormous interest to me since youth. As usual for novel things, in the beginning it represented the most advanced form of professional thinking and behavior in software. The reason...

Phillip G. Armour, in his work The Laws of Software Process: A New Model for the Production and Management of Software , proposes that software is a mean for the preservation of knowledge as have been the deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), the brain, tools...

I attended a wonderful talk about me: being wrong . That is, the talk was about a persistent trait of we humans.

Creative thinkers and great designers often share a scientific view of life. Scientific thinking has propelled technological inventions. Technology repeatedly has been of great help for mankind; software technology is key, as Bjarne Stroupstrup has said...

The event La Ciudad de las Ideas occurred in the city of Puebla, Mexico, 11-13 November 2010, included a debate between theists and atheists. In a format similar to the debate occurred during the same event of the year 2009. Does the universe have a purpose...

Watts S. Humphrey , founder of the Software Process Program at the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute (SEI) and recipient of the National Medal of Technology, has passed away Thursday, Oct 28, 2010 . He wrote extensively about software...

I have heard through many years that a certification-based curriculum is very, very important for those who want to be considered competent. I have tried hard to understand this perspective. I have been told the importance resides in the fact that business...

Often I hear phrases or calls, on the part of people in a hierarchical position in an organization, such as the following examples. I listen to them either directly or endorsed by such persons: "By questioning we are open to critical positions that...

Taylorism* still has strong mental roots in the endings of post-industrial era; hence, many still try to reason about the creation process of software-based business solutions in terms of an old-manufacturing mindset: trying to characterize analysis,...

Latest Microsoft Application Architecture Guide is available from the following hyperlink: Microsoft Application Architecture Guide, 2nd Edition This is a good resource to consider when thinking about the design of concurrent and distributed software...

A normal and healthy situation in a team of peers is open communication. This is precisely what is expected in an agile team: The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation...

Browsing the Internet is like going alone outside, like walking on the streets of cosmopolitan urban centers of today. Where you can find very good things to your own good or disturbing events can find your way. This post is open to the world of Internet;...

I have waited some years for this work to be published, it is out there now: The Design of Design: Essays from a Computer Scientist by Frederick P. Brooks Jr. An agile practitioner could find this useful because (1) one basic insight in the history...

Finally, there is work on software theory on the hands of programmers (most of them), it is the Software Engineering Method and Theory (SEMAT) initiative . There is a meaning for the word ‘theory’ as in “In theory, there is no difference between theory...

How do you know if all this about Agile is not a scam? How do you know if all of it is about a whimsical fashion? Are there not enough cases of sophistry in History by which people have been fooled to put their resources in the hands of swindlers? (Sophistry...