Tag: agile

Agile & Modeling new way of life!

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 and design models (and maybe code generation rules if used for this purpose). The idea

The Sustainable MDA Manifesto: 1st draft

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 and programming are by very nature different activities. The “IT world” does love programming, mainly

Should MDA be the Holly Grail of Agile Manifesto?

OK, I’m in a teasing mood… But let’s take the four Agile Manifesto values and have a look on MDA(*)  through these values. Individuals and interactions over processes and tools The fact is that tools have a huge importance in MDA. Individuals, even interacting well, will not succeed if MDA tools don’t work (modeler and model-to-code