Language, Artefacts, Systems, Teams: What Is Software?
It is interesting to see children grow up with the web and with software. Computers and hardware are becoming a non-topic. My 7-year-old s...| the-software-artefact.blogspot.com
It is interesting to see children grow up with the web and with software. Computers and hardware are becoming a non-topic. My 7-year-old s...| the-software-artefact.blogspot.com
Metrics collected by Capers Jones in the US show that the percentage of software professionals working on the maintenance of existing applications (legacy) rather than the development of new applications rose from 52% to 73% between 1995 and 2000. Undoubtedly part of the increase is related to Y2K projects, but the numbers have not come down after 2000; instead, Capers Jones estimated that by 2010 79% of software professionals were focused on maintenance.| Language, Artefacts, Systems, Teams
Semantics is one of the unfortunate words that has been hijacked by everyday IT jargon. The link between the Semantic Web and semantic modelling is comparable to the link between C++ and object orientation. Just as C++ is the result of incorporating object oriented concepts into an existing programming language, the Semantic Web is the result of incorporating semantic concepts into the web technology platform that is defined by W3C standards, which include HTML, URI, HTTP etc. And likewise, j...| Language, Artefacts, Systems, Teams
Software product development teams – and people in general - commonly over-estimate their ability to convey information in documents, diagrams, and in discussions. To make matters worse, they typically have too much faith in the validity of their personal mental models to frame the problems that need to be solved. As a result, misinterpretations often remain undetected for months, milestones are missed, and deliverables don’t meet expectations. Many failures are avoidable by recognising t...| Language, Artefacts, Systems, Teams
It is advisable to distinguish between a domain engineering process and an application development process. The application development process in turn comes in two flavours, a mature application development process and an experimental application development process.| Language, Artefacts, Systems, Teams
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