Agile & Lean Software Development Management

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Browsing Posts published in December, 2009

The most common model is the data model. Deep in the application architecture a physical model can be found, which is a straight representation of the database (ERD diagram).More superficially, in the core of the application architecture, a conceptual representation of the same data model can be found (UML diagram). However, it should be kept [...]

Did you ever used Eclipse? Never? Then, now is the time! Lets generate some crap… So, first we need Eclipse. Next, install the open-source modeling tool Topcased and code generator Acceleo into Eclipse. Next, spend a couple of hours in finding out how it all should work together.(To be honest, it didn’t take hours but [...]

With software architecture my rule of thumb is: less is more. I like lean. Developers – your primary audience – should get a good hunch of the path they must walk, but it should not be written down in such detail that it freezes their thinking organ. Therefore there is no room for micro-managers or [...]