SD Magazine Jolt Productivity Award 2005- March 24, 2005 Wow! We heard that our Software Factories book was awarded a Productivity Award in the General Books Category at the Software Development Magazine Jolt Awards last week. http:www.sdmagazine.compressroomjolt_winners_2005.pdf This is a great honor, and we are deeply grateful to the judges and organizers for this result. Unfortunately, neither Jack Greenfield nor I was able to attend the ceremony at Santa Clara.http://blogs.msdn.com/keith_short/archive/2005/03/24/401949.aspx On Definitions- March 17, 2005 In Steve Cooks interview, Steve gives a great one sentence definition of a Software Factory. I realize I should have provided a one sentence definition as part of my elevator story posted earlier. I was inspired by Steves statement to dig out an earlier attempt we had to produce a single brief sentence that defines what a Software Factory is: A set of integrated tools, process and content assets used to accelerate life cycle tasks for a specific type of software component, application or.http://blogs.msdn.com/keith_short/archive/2005/03/17/397957.aspx Steve Cook on Software Factories and DSLs- March 16, 2005 Steve Cook, my colleague based in Cambridge, UK, has just posted a very interesting interview with journalist Matt Nicholson: http:dnjonline.comarticle.aspxID=mar05_stevecook It comes complete with a rather fetching picture of Steve at his desk in Cambridge Jhttp://blogs.msdn.com/keith_short/archive/2005/03/16/396942.aspx Software Factory Elevator Story- March 8, 2005 To start the ball rolling, I thought Id write down the Software Factory elevator story. People are always asking us Can you please just quickly summarize what one is Thats right, boil down a 600 page book, and thousands of words in white papers and articles to just three points. So heres what I think are the key ideas, resisting the urge to expand on them here (thatll come later). 1. Models are firstclass artifacts in software development Model-driven...http://blogs.msdn.com/keith_short/archive/2005/03/08/389777.aspx Restarting My Blog- March 7, 2005 Its been a long time since I wrote to my blog. This posting is my restart. One of the reasons Ive been so quiet is that Ive been involved in some start up projects here at Microsoft that we are not yet ready to blog about. These have taken quite a bit of my time, and although are related to the general universe of modeling, are concerned with longer lead projects. Fortunately, much good discourse on the topics of Software Factories, Visual Studio Team System, DSLs and model-driven...http://blogs.msdn.com/keith_short/archive/2005/03/07/387276.aspx |