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There are a number of ways to implement the Software Factory Principle (Remember the principle says that any method to enable mass-production of software (especially standardized non-functional requirements) at a lower cost and in a shorter time constitutes a software factory of sorts.
Here are a few of the more common approaches:
1. Service orientation
Common Services (standard [...]

Software Factories: Part 2 will be coming along on Monday, but for now a change of topic onto Systems Management

Out-of-the Box Systems Management Tools
There are numerous systems Management tools out there and a lot of corporates own a lot of diverse instances of these. Each one has its place in the market and plays [...]

Introduction
I have been aware of the Concept of a Software Factory for around 3 years or so. The Principle is very simple: If you are producing software, tool-up in order to produce good quality software that meets your requirements, at a very low marginal cost (cost of delivering one more business requirement) and in [...]

My post “Dismount!” last Friday (goodness it’s already almost a week ago!) left an open question about how you may have found yourself riding a dead horse (in the figurative sense).
Now in the context of this blog and on the topic of IT, a dead horse would most likely refer to a system that is [...]

I was reminded yesterday of an old American-Indian saying that says when you discover you’re riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount, but a colleague pointed out that there were other options available.
So I quickly Googled “How to ride a dead horse” and found a few sites quoting alternate strategies, which are [...]