PUBLIC MARKS from tadanderson with tags PLE & process

If you want a current look into the state of enterprise software deliver at a global level, then this is the book for you.

This book is truly a holistic view of software architecture.

All in all this is a very high quality book packed with very valuable information any architect at an level of experience will benefit from. Hi highly recommend this book!!!!

Anyone considering venturing into Software Product Line Engineering should read this book. It contains essential information needed to succeed.

This book is the bible of documenting software architectures. It is a mandatory read for all software architects.

The authors of this book represent an all-star lineup of the best of the best in the Software Product Line Engineering (SPLE) field. They do a great job of providing a snapshot of the current SPLE best practices in the industry today....

Len Bass, co-author of Software Architecture in Practice, discusses quality attributes.

The first in a series of 3 Webinars on Software Product Lines is available to watch on line.

If you are involved in software development in anyway, you should read this book. It is the story of how it is supposed to be.

This is not for the happy go lucky requirements gatherer. It is a detailed breakdown of everything requirements engineering for software intensive systems. It will make you think.

The book is a goldmine of information and guidance. ....

SEI has published a new report titled "Proceedings of the First Workshop on Service-Oriented Architectures and Product Lines". It discusses the commonalities and the differences with service-oriented architecture (SOA) and software product line (SPL) approaches.

What I have seen come out of patterns and practices are not software factories as prescribed by the initial movement.

My team is currently in the process of purchasing simulation software for use with process engineering. This paper's release was perfect timing for us to show what we are trying to achieve with the new software.

The new blog category "Software Process Engineering" on this blog site is dedicated to news and updates that take place on our new web site "Real World Software Process Engineering".

This is a very good thesis on Synthesis-Based Software Architecture Design. I have pasted the Chapter titles and the abstract from the paper below.

Markus Völter has put together a nice slide deck on Software Architecture Documentation in the Real World.

Modifiability and Extensibility are two of the most important Quality Attributes, yet they are often overlooked. SEI has compiled a new paper on Modifiability tactics that is definitely worth checking out.

I posted a few sets of links a few months ago. Here is another list. There has been a ton of new info to keep up with. Topics - .NET 3.0, 3.5, Acropolis, TFS, AJAX, Visual Studio 2008, CAB, WPF, Silverlight, SQL Server 2008, Architecture, WCF, LINQ, MVP, Repository Factory, etc...

A problem that I see with a lot of process instances (RUP, OpenUP, etc.) is that the templates provided are static word documents. I know that has been par for course over the years, but SPARX EA gives us a better option for Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Enablement.

A new version of the Framework for Software Product Line Practice (version 5.0), is being built and is supposed to be released sometime in late summer.

A new Software Product Lines Community Wiki site has been set up, where contributors can submit patterns of variation mechanism usage.

The First International Workshop on Variability Modeling of Software-intensive Systems (VaMoS) has posted their proceedings and have made them available for free download. It covers a wide range of topics related to Software Product Line Engineering.

Product Line Engineering is at the heart of Microsoft's Software Factory movement. Although we have benefited greatly from the release of the Mobile Client Software Factory, the Smart Client Software Factory, the Web Client Software Factory, and the Web Service Software Factory, we still do not have any new tools to create our own. I am still defaulting to the UML Profile that has served me well in the past. This series cover the PLE UML profile and contains a Sparx EA template with the profile pre-loaded.

Two processes to keep an eye on in the upcoming months are the EssUP (Essential Unified Process) and PLE (Product Line Engineering).....