Software Best Practices

Peter Eeles and I must be subconsciously on the same page. Because at the same time I was blogging about Software Architecture Views and Perspectives and Software Architecture Quality Attributes and their direct applicability to SCM/ALM solution architecture (and software process in general), Peter was...

Extending the analogy of software architecture views and quality attributes for software process architecture , I'd like to spend some time discussing how software product lines relate to software process architecture and "common processes" across an enterprise. Many organizations strive...

Continuing the previous discussion on software product-lines ... Central to the notion of product-lines and product-families are tracking and managing three different kinds of software assets: common/core assets that are shared by all the products in the product-line shared assets that are common to...

Extending the analogy of software architecture views and quality attributes for software process architecture , I'd like to spend some time discussing software product lines . According to the SEI website on software product-lines , A Software Product-Line is defines as follows: A software product...

After my previous postings on Software Architecture Views and Perspectives , Software Architecture Quality Attributes and Software Modifiability Tactics , the question remains as to what all this has to do with Agile processes or with CM. Well, about a year ago I wrote that Software CM is NOT a Process...

After my previous postings on Software Architecture Views and Perspectives , Software Architecture Quality Attributes and Software Modifiability Tactics , the question remains as to what all this has to do with Agile processes or with CM. Well, about a year ago I wrote that Software CM is NOT a Process...

Getting back to the subject of my previous blog-entries on Software Architecture Views and Perspectives and Software Architecture Quality Attributes , I wanted to talk more specifically about the quality attribute of Modifiability . The Modifiability of a software system is related to how minimal is...

Following on to my previous blog-entry about Software Architecture Views and Perspectives , the book " Software Architecture in Practice " also describes a method called Attribute-Driven Design or ADD. This is not yet-another-design-method like BDD or TDD. ADD is concerned software architectural...

I'm fairly interested in the literature on Software Architecture Views and Perspectives. Folks here may remember by work on Dimensions and Views of SCM Architecture as one of the reasons why ... The text of the entire 2nd edition of the " Software Architecture in Practice " textbook is...

April 2007 marked the release of the Object-Oriented Analysis & Design with Applications, 3rd edition by Grady Booch et.al. For many, this book was the one that first turned them on to object-orientation as more than just a particular programming language or two, but as an overall way of thinking...