I recently obtained the TOGAF Foundation Certification. That’s nice to be successful at first time with a certification exam, my first exam since at least 25 years! I’ll talk about TOGAF in other posts but, you know, when you just…
Some background (click to show) [show][hide] Almost nine months after my last post on this blog. What happened? I got a baby! She’s ten months old now and she has taken a big place in my “spare life”. Also I…
Nice title, isn’t it? I’d like to share the idea that we can associate agile project management and software development practices (two different things!) to build sustainable software. In doing this, the sustainable artifacts would be source code AND analysis…
Inspired by Model practice’s last posts I will try to illustrate a business logic’s paradox on the barber’s paradox taken as a business rule ;) The barber’s paradox: “The barber shaves only those men in town who do not shave…
This post is my shifted comment on Rafael’s post & discussion. Rafael talks about analysis vs design in the software life-cycle, where problem is the requirement and solution the software to build. First of all, IT or not, any answer…
The story begins with two quotes from Paul Valéry’s work I put on Twitter: “What is simple is always false. What is not simple is useless” (1) “There is science for simple matters and art for complicated matters” (2) My…
Nice live discussion with @edseidewitz last week, with some good wine! One subject was UML: past, present and future. UML became a standard: what does that mean? Let’s see OMG’s web site: “The Unified Modeling Language™ – UML – is OMG’s…
Say that lazy means not going till something’s end. Lazy modeling means doing models that don’t hold all the material they could carry. Say we talk about MDD(a) (What else? ;D), so we talk about a PIM(b) which describes business/functional/architectural requirements. This…
Yesterday I met Rémy Fannader, author of Caminao: a simple but very powerful modelization approach compatible with MDE practices. During a part of the discussion about how wide was the modeling state of art (as wide as at least one…
Following recent discussions, with MDA and Executable UML OMG’s initiatives in background, here is my proposal for a Sustainable MDA Manifesto. It’s a first draft, so feel free to contribute. Introduction Even if one want to see them overlapping, modeling…
Following my post on round-tripping, a discussion raised again on “what is model?” on Think in models. Here I try to focus on why “model is not code” in an MDA/MDD context. First of all, let’s define the investigation field: MDA/MDD:…
In MDE life-cycle, round-trip engineering means ability to update a model based on source code reverse modeling. Funny practice: as the source code is issued from this model during the generation step, it’s a kind of “shoe is on the…
