By Feroz Sheikh on February 29, 2012
This post is the second part of a two-part series. The problem we were discussing was that there are other stakeholder categories in a software system apart from the end users – business stakeholders, operations stakeholders and development stakeholders. In typical software development projects following Agile methodologies, these other stakeholders often get neglected. Their concerns [...]
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By Feroz Sheikh on February 29, 2012
When it comes to Agile methodologies, the debate around prioritization of stories based on business v/s technical value is probably too skewed. Functional stories get priority over the quality attributes of a system such as maintainability & modifiability, which get pushed out to later releases leading to expensive refactoring.
This is a two-part post addressing the [...]
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By Satish Sukumar on April 14, 2009
Introduction
Current generation application systems are complex ecosystems—the various applications within the ecosystem have many interdependencies among them and are generally integrated at a platform level; they are not a collection of independent applications using application level integration schemes. There is a strong interdependency between business systems, IT systems, software systems, platforms, and IT infrastructure. As [...]
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By Nagaraju Pappu on August 1, 2008
This Article describes the nature of enterprise applications from one management point of view, and it describes the issues and challenges that need to be considered when designing an enterprise application management framework.
Posted in Business Service Management, Papers | Tagged Enterprise Architecture, Perspectives