In a post today called BPMN 2.0: no longer for Business Professionals, Keith Swenson of Fujitsu (lead author of Mastering the Unpredictable) builds on a recent post on BPMN from Gartner’s Jim Sinur (BPMN for Business Professionals: Burn Baby Burn). Both focus on how the BPMN standard is out of the reach of “the business” [...]
Posted on Wednesday, September 1, 2010 by Neil Ward-DuttonUncategorized
Yesterday I spent the evening at a dinner in London as a stand-in for my colleague Bola Rotibi, talking about Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and governing software delivery to a group of around 20 senior IT leaders. Due to my own disorganisation I’d not realised that this was a stand-up talk with no visuals or [...]
Posted on Friday, March 20, 2009 by adminUncategorized
This is the third in our Software Delivery InFocus series of podcast episodes, starring Bola Rotibi – the Principal Analyst of MWD’s Software Delivery competency area. In this episode, she discusses the opportunities and challenges associated with using cloud-based software development services. Bola’s guest is Debbie Ashton, Product Director for CODA – a provider of [...]
Posted on Friday, January 30, 2009 by adminUncategorized
Bob McIlree wrote an interesting blog at the start of October about watching the amount of ‘technical debt’. The term is one that I had not previously encountered. Ward Cunningham first defined it back in 1992 and Martin Fowler provided an additional and perhaps slightly clearer perspective in 2003. “…You have a piece of functionality [...]
Posted on Friday, November 14, 2008 by adminUncategorized
Following the first Software Delivery InFocus podcast which we published in September, October sees Bola Rotibi’s second podcast episode, in which she discusses a series of questions focused on the topic of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). Her guests are John Leegte (ICT Architect at the Dutch Tax and Customs department, Belastingdienst) and Steve Jones (Head [...]
Posted on Friday, October 31, 2008 by adminUncategorized
After an extended hiatus, we’re relaunching our podcasting efforts with a planned series of discussions focusing on the challenges and issues associated with software delivery processes and competence in enterprises. We’ve called this podcast series "Software Delivery InFocus", and it’s hosted by Bola Rotibi, MWD’s Principal Analyst for Software Delivery. Each podcast in the series [...]
Posted on Friday, September 5, 2008 by adminI recently finished some research on the cost and quality benefits of upfront, automated code and design review (i.e. prior to and during the development and build process) through static analysis. One of my conclusions was that the case for “good enough” is no longer good enough in delivering software. But some might argue that [...]
Posted on Monday, August 11, 2008 by adminIn our most recent report, our new analyst Bola Rotibi looks at Embarcadero’s recent acquisition of CodeGear (the Borland subsidiary that it’s been trying to offload for many months) – and asks: has Embarcadero made a smart move or a stupid one, and what does it mean for organisations looking at investing in development tools? [...]
Posted on Monday, June 9, 2008 by adminUncategorized
You might think having been a senior analyst for 8 years that I’d have seen most things. Well, this has definitely been a week of firsts for me. My first ever JavaOne conference; my first week in joining MWD as a principal analyst covering the application delivery and lifecycle management market (moving from 8 years [...]
Posted on Monday, May 12, 2008 by adminUncategorized
I was chatting to a friend who’s a top-notch Java developer over the weekend: we were shooting the breeze about Groovy, Rails, Spring, Hibernate and various other Things That Get People Excited (let’s call them TTGPEs), and discussing how far they were likely to penetrate into your average IT shop. “Why do so many people [...]
Posted on Tuesday, February 19, 2008 by admin
