Is smart DM an alternative to MDM?
Frank Johnson has been taking me to task over my view of MDM in my recent blog. He thinks that that I'm being rather impracticable as far as smaller companies are concerned It was enough that...
Musings from David Norfolk, Practice Leader for Development & Governance.
The MDM Tarpit
As I look over my Governance landscape I find that I struggle to see how MDM (Master Data Management) really fits into it. Master Data isn't something new, as far as I can see, it's just data. And...
IBM Rational Software Conferance – Booch on Day 3
The highlight of the third day at RSC was Grady Booch's roundtable discussion session as usual. He expressed a certain disappointment in today's modelling tools—which are a long way now from...
Visual Configuration Management
I have to admit that I think that configuration management is a universal good thing—unless you know what you have, where it is running, how it is configured and who is allowed to use it, you...
Making BrITain Great Again
It's nice to talk about something positive for a change—and to meet a company actually trying to be positive about UK plc's prospects. Micro Focus collected a panel of the Great and Good to...
IBM Rational Software Conference 2009 – Day 2
Sorry it has taken a while to get my second report on RSC 2009 out—it's turning a braindump into respectable reportage that takes the time, I find. On Day 2, I was pleased that in the...
Day 1 at IBM Rational’s Software Development Conference
So here I am in sunny Florida at another RSDC (Rational Software Development Conference, now including an added Telelogic user conference). This one is in hard times and IBM seems rather keen on...
Systems Engineering and SysML
I've always been a bit depressed about Systems Analysis in practice, since rather enjoying it in my computer science courses alongside lectures on Systems Theory, because the only system Systems...
Is there more to Software Asset Management (SAM) than counting pennies?
It's hard to believe that anyone can question the need for SAM (Software Asset Management). After all, businesses run on software these days and if you don't know what software you have, how it's...
Snippets from Sybase
Well, I'm at the New York Stock Exchange, where Sybase is hosting the launch of its time-series version of RAP and the security is a bit OTT (although it is pretty close to where the World...