Hilarious video about working in the visual effects industry (although it can be applied to any software development).

(Via Pensamientos ágiles)

• Software development magazine: UML, Agile, programming, testing, project management, jobs
  “Migrating to Agile is more than changing your process. It also requires a change in culture”
  (tags: agile methodology process culture)
• Dr. Dobb’s | Dr. Dobb’s Agile Newsletter 03/08 | març 26, 2008
  “Implementing process frameworks straight “out of the box” likely isn’t going to work very well for you, but picking practices from each one and developing an IT process which makes sense for your situation can work well if you have the expertise to do so
  (tags: process framework)
• XMI still a failure
  OMG XMI and the lack of tool interoperability
  (tags: MDD XMI tools interoperability)
• Software Process Improvement (SPI) Best Practices
  A collection of “best practices”, by Scott Ambler.
  (tags: software development bestpractices)
• OnStrategies Perspectives » Is SOA Getting Boring? A Conversation with Steve Mills
  “when you start thinking about enterprise SOA, you’d better expect rollback, compensation, and high availability features that are taken for granted with online transaction systems”
  (tags: enterprise SOA OLTP)
• Why should you Jazz ? « Sciology = Science + Technology
  IBM Rational Team Concert review
  (tags: IBM Rational Jazz review via:billhiggins)
• OpenProj | Projity
  OpenProj is a free, open source project management solution
  (tags: project Management tool)

• IBM Partners Blocked from Rational Conference
  A shoot in their feet.
  (tags: IBM RSDC partner block)
• IBM developerWorks : Rational Software RFE Community
  Rational community site intended for collaboration with Rational development teams. A distant cousin of Rational Team Concert.
  (tags: IBM Rational collaboration community)
• Eclipse IDE at a crossroads | InfoWorld | Analysis | 2008-04-04 | By Paul Krill
  “We started off as an integrated development environment, and now it’s become an integrated everything environment. And so, the trouble is finding what you want in it,”
  (tags: eclipse IDE)
• Java IDE adds Application Factories for code reuse | InfoWorld | News | 2008-04-01 | By Paul Krill
  “With Application Factories, reusable code is delivered as modules that contain code and knowledge about purpose and design.”. Wondering if this is similar to OMG RAS.
  (tags: codegear IDE reuse)
• Google Mondrian: web-based code review and storage
  A web-based code review system used at Google.
  (tags: codereview google mondrian)
• Review Board
  a web-based code review tool created at VMware.
  (tags: codereview VMware)

• alphaWorks : Architectural Decision Knowledge Wiki : Overview
  Architectural Decision Knowledge Wiki extends QEDWiki with widgets and commands supporting architectural decision capturing and modeling.
  (tags: enterprise architecture wiki collaboration)
• Patterns of Deployment – SmartFrog -
  Part of the SmartFrog wiki that tries to take a broader view of how best to deploy and configure server-side applications.
  (tags: deployment configuration management patterns wiki)
• If Version Control Systems were Airlines – The Changelog
  Fun: consider what the world might be like if version control systems were airlines…
  (tags: humour scm)
• Java Power Tools
  “Java Power Tools delivers 30 open source tools designed to improve the development practices of Java developers in any size team or organization.”
  (tags: books java opensource tools)
• Home – EA User Group
  Enterprise Architect User Group SPS site
  (tags: enterprise architecture documentation)
• People Over Process » Jazz Update from EclipseCon with Erich Gamma
  Erich Gamma interviewed by Cote
  (tags: software development interview erichgamma redmonk IBM Jazz)

• Eclipse at eBay, Part 1: Tailoring Eclipse to the eBay architecture
  How eBay tailors Eclipse to suit its architecture.
  (tags: ebay eclipse plugins architecture)
• Eclipse at eBay, Part 2: eBay’s plug-ins in action
  More on eBay and Eclipse
  (tags: ebay eclipse plugins architecture)
• The Art and Craft of Great Software Architecture and Development: It does not take a Superstar – Developer types enumerated
  Nice description of different developer types. I found It is always useful to know the strengths and weaknesses of your developers to make a great team.
  (tags: software developers types)
• Mike Walker’s Ramblings about Industry Architecture : Presentation: Changing the Face of Banking Development
  Presentation about financial services and Microsoft products
  (tags: microsoft banking financial services presentations)
• Architecture as a Separate Function – Coding the Architecture
  Sam list some problems that arise when the architecture team sit within a completely different organisational area to the development team.
  (tags: enterprise architecture problems)
• Agile Journal – Making Agile Reviews Effective
  Reviews are an important tool in the agile toolkit.
  (tags: Agile programming practices codereview tools)
• Wide Awake Developers: Outrunning Your Headlights
  Tracking development velocity and how agile methods allow us to move the constraint off of the development team
  (tags: software development agile lean process TOC)
• Productivity Variations Among Software Developers and Teams: The Origin of “10x” – 10x Software Development
  Software experts have long observed a 10-fold difference in productivity and quality between different programmers.
  (tags: software development productivity people)
• The difference between Agile methods and CMMI – Kevin Trethewey
  Different points of views about the main difference between Agile Methods and CMMI. Worth read.
  (tags: methodology agile cmmi)
• Open source software testing tools
  opensourcetesting providing users with an easy to use gateway to information on the wide range of open source testing tools available.
  (tags: opensource tools test QA)