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Just a recent observation. Agile vs. Formal processes in the context of factories - any confusion there? It's pretty much a given these days in software engineering we accept that we have been misled over the last couple of decades into believing that Read More...
Posted Monday, September 03, 2007 10:22 AM by jezzsa | 3 Comments

On Software Factories

They just published an interview I recently did about software factories on InfoQ magazine - Article link... Hopefully you will find some entertaining and useful explanations for understanding factories, DSL's and the like, especially if you come from Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 06, 2007 12:23 AM by jezzsa | 2 Comments

Re: Breaking the Cycle of Failed Development Projects

Tom is back in the field again after an honourable stint at patterns & practices, and asks in his post “Breaking the Cycle of Failed Development Projects” , “....While it is strange going back to the world of consulting, I'm sure my tenure with the Read More...
Posted Monday, June 04, 2007 7:36 PM by jezzsa | 3 Comments

EFx Factory Futures

Well, its time to (officially) announce the end of further development of the EFx Factory prototype! and open a new chapter on software factories for our customers. [In actual fact, not really hot-off-the-press news, this post has been pending getting Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 17, 2007 11:50 PM by jezzsa | 1 Comments

FAQ - Where are my skills going to be required with Software Factories?

In a previous FAQ we addressed some of the fears that our 'eager-professionals' are likely to have about the introduction of software factories into their projects and organisations. In this post I want to address one of the concerns that the expert solution Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 04, 2007 12:10 AM by jezzsa | 2 Comments

FAQ - Why do I need Software Factories?

OK, so first off I want to address the more personal, individual aspect of this question, rather than the more broader industry angle - which can be found in many other references online and offline (books, articles and the like). These other references Read More...
Posted Monday, December 11, 2006 10:18 AM by jezzsa | 1 Comments

The How, the What and the Why - Stages of software development

In the last year or so I have been on a 'mission', a crusade in fact, to complete and promote a software offering that's been under way for the last 3 years. Seems like a long project, but that offering has been evolving and really the journey has been Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 05, 2006 2:15 PM by jezzsa | 2 Comments

What use will factories have in our products?

Occasionally, I get asked by others internally at Microsoft, what role software factories are going play in their space, 'their space' as it were are server products we ship, such as: SharePoint, Exchange, BizTalk etc. Perhaps I'll start with a problem Read More...
Posted Monday, December 04, 2006 2:03 PM by jezzsa | 2 Comments

Meta-this and Meta-that

Now, I don't know about you, but after you have had your head around factories and modelling for a while, especially if designing features and tools for them, you would have encountered this term 'meta' a lot. And if so, then you have bound to have come Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 24, 2006 7:46 PM by jezzsa | 3 Comments

Factory Authoring Approaches – the “Rogers” and the “Johns”

For some time now I have been analysing how the EFx factory runtime has been evolved (and why it evolved that way), and how that could be harvested and generalised for others that that could be used as a possible basis for defining some authoring tools Read More...
Posted Monday, September 11, 2006 2:51 PM by jezzsa | 1 Comments

File | New | 'Blank Problem' (Part II)

So, we have now had a pretty thorough look at what a factory schema is in a number of previous articles , and now how it can be used from both the factory builder’s perspective and also the factory user’s perspective. In this article, I wanted to dig Read More...
Posted Saturday, May 27, 2006 10:30 PM by jezzsa | 1 Comments

The Construction Analogy

Whenever anyone asks what I am working on these days, I have trouble conveying the value that guidance automation and software factories are bringing to our industry - and getting the penny to drop in those who enquire. I find that even seasoned, experienced Read More...
Posted Saturday, April 08, 2006 1:38 AM by jezzsa | 9 Comments

The 'Visual Studio Stare'

If you were following the previous post on File | New | 'Blank Problem' you will see we are a fair way from a development environment that provides us a starting point for defining the requirements for a solution, let alone a single environment for defining Read More...
Posted Sunday, February 19, 2006 8:46 PM by jezzsa | 1 Comments

The Vicious Software Development Cycle (Part II)

So, I am picking you are here because you are looking for an answer to the previous posting on why software development projects are continuing to fail to deliver. 'The Vicious Software Development Cycle' . I should apologise that the previous posting Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 09, 2006 3:00 PM by jezzsa | 1 Comments

The Vicious Software Development Cycle

A while back I was forced to justify, in plain terms, why partners and customers require, and should adopt, an application framework like EFx or any automated guidance for that matter. After all, adopting this kind of offering (some see as an intrusion) Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 25, 2006 1:20 PM by jezzsa | 3 Comments
 
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