In 2003, Methods & Tools published the article “ASP Tools for Software Development“, where ASP did not stand for Microsoft’s Active Server Pages, but for Application Service Providers. This was the “acronym of the day” for companies that were offering hosted software tools. Most of the companies mentioned in this …
Methods & Tools is a free e-newsletter for software developers, testers and project managers. Summer 2008 issue’s content: * UML versus Domain-Specific Languages * We Increment to Adapt, We Iterate to Improve * Building Products with Acceptance TDD * Getting and Keeping Control over your Project 60 pages of software …
Architecture is an important asset for good programming and the notion of “pattern” is here to help us apply already trusted code architecture solutions to common problems. Jason McDonald has done a wonderful job to group some of them in a document that should be useful to most software developers. …
This book from Henriette Baumann, Philippe Baumann and Patrick Graessle is a very good introduction to the power of modeling with the Unified Modeling Language (UML) approach. After an initial presentation of the basic principles of modeling and UML, the book presents the diagrams used to model both business and …
As it was confirmed by a recent Methods & Tools survey, the adoption of agile approaches has been increasing recently. Following these results, I asked software practitioners on different discussion forums to share their opinion about the substance of agile adoption. As agility is now becoming “trendy”, we could see …
A you move ahead, keep in mind the following: * Never confuse the map with the journey – The project plan is only an outline (and a guess at that), so you should believe the team’s results and not the plans. Remember, it is the achievement of the objectives that …
