Software development has come a full circle states Alex Iskold in a scathing, pull-no-punches broadside upon the Waterfall model.
Read it here: the future of software development
SAP announced on Wednesday that it is acquiring privately-held Hyderabad, India based Yasu Technologies, which creates business rules management software.
Yasu’s flagship product is the QuickRules BRMS, launched in early 2000. The deal is designed to boost SAP’s business process management (BPM) offerings and will be tucked into SAP NetWeaver, which channels the ebb and flow of data to software applications via SAP’s back-end middleware.
The question on Slashdot was actually “Do You Like Your Workflow or BPM Software?“.
The questioner was interested in “firsthand experiences with these kinds of products and in unbiased reviews” and requested information on following products:
“The BPM industry is awash in hype” declares Kevin Spurway, warning that vendor hype has created market confusion about the proper role of IT with respect to BPM.
I could not help but smile sadly and nod my head at this… IT unfortunately perceive BPM as a threat rather than the powerful tool that it is can be.
What’s beyond the hype, and how is the industry addressing this dangerous situation, and help clear the smoke? Kevin identifies 3 intersting developments – “Standards“, “Free Modelers“ & “Communities and Social Network-based Approaches“.
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[Originally posted Friday, November 26, 2004 @ Caffeine Kick]
While I know that several Terabytes of data have been generated in the online and off-line feud over what’s the better, I decided I wanted to join in with my own rant as well.
I have several issues with J2EE and Java, at least the way we have it today. I’ll talk about one of them here.
There are just too many ways of doing any single thing.
Nostalgia time. tried to remember my old blog. Caffeine Kick. it used to be at caffeine.sabarish.com.
However, thanks to the Way Back Machine, I was able to sneak a peek at my old blog.
Apache ODE, as in “Apache Orchestration Director Engine” (wow thats a mouthful), is a Top Level Project under the aegis of the Apache Software Foundation.
The stated objective of the ODE is “to create a reliable, compact, and embeddable component capable of managing the execution of long-running business processes defined using the BPEL process description language“, and the focus has been on “developing small modules with minimal dependencies that could be assembled (and easily reassembled) to construct a full featured BPMS“. LEGO blocks of BPMS?
One of BPM’s early pioneers, Dr. Setrag Khoshafian, Vice President of BPM Technology at Pegasystems (previously Senior Vice President of Technology with Savvion), surely knows a thing or two about BPMS. In this short and interesting white paper he diffuses what he identifies are Six Myths of Rules and Business Process Management.
Nowadays, this question seems to figure at every technical interview that that I been involved with (at either side of the table). What would you choose – Waterfall model or the Iterative approach?
The correct answer – it depends.
The usual answer – some mumbling about extreme programming (followed barely disguised rant on how one was forced to use it).