SPaMCAST 25 Booch, Ominbus Frameworks - a podcast by Thomas M. Cagley Jr

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SPaMCAST 25 - Booch,
Omnibus Framework








A few hours late . . . for some reason Audacity and Vista had a wrestling match this afternoon.  A couple of reinstalls later we are back in action however I think the interview and essay might be the some of the best of year one! Show 25 features an interview with Grady
Booch.  The interview covers topics
ranging from high ceremony processes, anarchy, and organizational governance to
virtual worlds.  Humboldt Curve and even
Moore’s Law even make appearances. 








Grady is recognized internationally for his
innovative work on software architecture and software engineering. A renowned
visionary, he has devoted his life's work to improving the effectiveness of
software developers worldwide. Grady served as Chief Scientist of Rational Software Corporation since its
founding in 1981 and continues to serve in that capacity within IBM. Grady is one of the original authors of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and was also
one of the original developers of several of Rational's products. Grady has
served as architect and architectural mentor for numerous complex
software-intensive systems around the world in just about every domain
imaginable.



Grady is the author of six best-selling books, including the UML Users Guide
and the seminal Object-Oriented Analysis with Applications. He has published
several hundred articles on software engineering, including papers published in
the early '80s that originated the term and practice of object-oriented design
(OOD), plus papers published in the early 2000's that originated the term and
practice of collaborative development environments (CDE).








At random times, the laws of physics do not apply
to him. He is not dead yet.




Check out www.booch.com/architecture/

Contact Grady at architecture@booch.com








The essay for
this cast is titled “Omnibus Frameworks, Collaboration and Social Media."  The essay wrestles with balancing frameworks,
collaboration and a new world order in process improvement.   Humans are generally social by nature, IT
personnel are no different (although the stereotype indicates differently) the
new focus on social media whether in second life, Twitter or other platforms
are tools that will let you break down high ceremony processes into more
manageable ‘practices.’   The shift from
one size fits all frameworks to highly granular practices will allow you to
shift control closer to work and support usage via social media tools.  The text of the essay can be found at www.tcagley.wordpress.com.  Comments and corrections are welcome.






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Future
Events and the next . . .






I
have a couple of free webinars coming up in early 2008.  The first is “Getting Performance Improvement
Out of Your Software Process Improvement" on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 10:00 AM
- 11:30 AM EDT






And
the second is titled “A Cost Effective Approach to Enterprise Wide Software
Process Improvement" May 22nd, 2008 at 10:00 am - 11:30 am Eastern Time






More
information and registration information can be found at http://www.itmpi.org/webinars/






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