- Agile Software Management Accounting for Systems
- Feb 20, 2004
- Throughput Accounting can be generally applied for the management, control, and reporting of any system. Throughput Accounting is appropriate for managing general systems because it focuses on Throughput, which is the desired adaptive behavior of the system.
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- Agility in Software Development
- Mar 17, 2002
- In this excerpt from his book, Jim Highsmith looks at agility in software development and its success in other fields such as manufacturing; and explores the concept of Agile Software Development Ecosystems.
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- Aligning IT to the Business: Managing Customer Expectations
- Oct 5, 2001
- If your IT customers expect one thing, and you deliver something else, they might be satisfied -- but that's highly unlikely. The best way to keep customers happy is with a four-part strategy, as Harris Kern explains.
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- Alternate Data Streams: Threat or Menace?
- Sep 16, 2005
- By now, you're probably aware of how easy it is to accidentally leave metadata in your Microsoft Word documents, offending or amusing recipients who can easily uncover your mistakes. Did you also know that bad guys might be helping you to even more embarrassment (or danger), by using the alternate data streams (ADS) capability of Windows NTFS to hook warez, pornography, or even hacker's tools to your innocent files?
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- Alternatives to LAMP
- Jun 2, 2006
- The LAMP configuration (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) is familiar to the open source universe. But just because this combination of products is comfortable, that doesn't mean that it provides the best solution for your systems. David Chisnall suggests some alternatives that might make a better match for your needs.
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- An Academy for Software Craftsmen? An Interview with Founder Ken Auer
- Dec 20, 2011
- For all the talk of craftsmanship and apprentices, there is only one commercial school in the world offering a journeyman rating: The RoleModel Software Craftsmanship Academy in Holly Springs, North Carolina. We interviewed Ken Auer to find out where the idea came from, how the program works, and why it's necessary today.
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- An Agile Approach to Estimating and Planning
- Aug 20, 2009
- With the four value statements of the Agile Manifesto in mind, Mike Cohn considers what it means to have an agile approach to a project, as well as what it means to have an agile approach to estimating and planning.
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- An Enterprise IT Renovation Roadmap
- Mar 25, 2005
- This chapter closely looks at the problems faced by enterprise software today, the resulting requirements for an enterprise IT architecture such as an SOA, and how such an architecture can be established on the organizational level.
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- An Exploration of Extreme Programming in Practice
- Oct 5, 2001
- This chapter from Extreme Programming in Practice give you a glimpse into real-life, real-time stories of how XP projects really work.
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- An HP UX-11i Performance Management Methodology
- Oct 15, 2004
- Optimizing the performance of a system can save your company a considerable amount of money. In this chapter, you'll see how to streamline your system for maximum efficiency.
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- An Information Technology Management Reference Architecture
- Aug 16, 2002
- This article describes the results of a proof-of-concept process to create an IT management reference architecture that displays IDC mail and messaging, as conducted at Sun's iForce Ready Center.
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- An Information Technology Management Reference Architecture Implementation
- Aug 30, 2002
- This article, the fifth in a series on Solaris OE data center management infrastructure, focuses on the implementation of the management infrastructure.
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- An Initial Look at ITIL Version 3 – Part One
- Sep 28, 2007
- Does ITIL version 3 live up to its highly touted prerelease billing?
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- An Initial Look at ITIL Version 3 – Part Three
- Oct 12, 2007
- Rich Schiesser looks at the "Service Operation" and "Continual Service Improvement" books.
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- An Initial Look at ITIL Version 3 – Part Two
- Oct 5, 2007
- Rich Schiesser examines the changes in the de facto standard for infrastructure best practices.
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- An Interview with Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt, the Pragmatic Programmers
- Apr 15, 2010
- Larry O'Brien interviews Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt on why programming pragmatically still holds true today.
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- An Interview with John deVadoss on Patterns and Practices at Microsoft
- Dec 1, 2009
- Larry O'Brien interviews John deVadoss, the product unit manager of the patterns & practices team at Microsoft, about the purpose of the p&p group, how p&p extends beyond Microsoft, and how disruptive the many-core era will be in terms of software patterns and practices.
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- An Interview with Paul Clements on Documenting Software Architectures
- Sep 21, 2010
- John Morley interviews Paul Clements about why he wrote Documenting Software Architectures: Views and Beyond, Second Edition. Paul explains why we need to be able to document an architecture so that others can successfully use it, maintain it, and build a system from it.
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- An Interview with Robert Sedgewick on the Analysis of Algorithms
- Aug 1, 2013
- Andrew Binstock interviews Robert Sedgewick, co-author of An Introduction to the Analysis of Algorithms, about the new edition of his book, the role of analysis of algorithms in computing, and his favorite books on algorithms.
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- An Interview with the Authors of "Stand Back and Deliver: Accelerating Business Agility"
- Aug 26, 2009
- Amr Elssamadisy interviews the author of "Stand Back and Deliver: Accelerating Business Agility" about their book.
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