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Co-Existence of Agile and Architecture
Agile approaches have gained popularity as a mechanism for reducing cost and increasing ability to handle change in dynamic market conditions. However, there is a significant concern about the role and importance of the issues related to the software architecture of a system being developed using agile approaches. There seems to be quite a lot…
Cloud Computing Demystified Day
There wouldn’t have been a better way to end the ECSA2010 week than having a wonderful gathering of Danish industry with five international speakers discussing the potential opportunities, challenges, and proposed solutions for exploiting Cloud Computing paradigm. The Cloud Computing Demystified day was organized on August 27, 2010 at IT University of Copenhagen with around…
ECSA2010 ended – great satisfaction!!!
This has been a fantastic week for ECSA2010 organizing team as well as for me personally. Everyone took great satisfaction to see this relatively new conference raising the bar in terms of quality of the program, number of delegates, and fantastic keynote speakers. It was almost 15 months when it was decided that the fourth…
Role of Cloud Computing in Future of IT
Debate about the advantages and risks of Cloud Computing is heating up in industrial and academic circles. Proponents and skeptics appear to have forceful arguments to support their positions. This situation leaves an increasing number of practitioners and business executives forced to look for reliable sources of information that can help them to separate realty…
A day in Paris with EASI-Clouds Partners
A couple of weeks ago, I was in Paris to attend the EASI-Clouds partners’ meeting called to form a common vision of the project. This was an interesting day with full of presentations, discussions, and debates. It was decided that the overall objective of EASI-Clouds is not to focus on “Yet Another Cloud Stack”; rather…
Supporting Pervasive Awareness in GSD Projects
This blog post’s title is taken from Antonio Lagrotteria’s Masters thesis project, which he completed under my supervision over the last six months. Today, he submitted the thesis for examination and will be flying to his homeland for much needed R&R :-) No doubt, he worked quite hard and produced a very good piece of…
Evaluating Architectures in GSD Projects
The popularity of global software development is expected to continue growing for many reasons for example reducing cost, improving quality, shortage of skilled people, and improving time-to-market. Software development companies are discovering new ways of leveraging software development resources that are geographically dispersed. Hence, there is an increasing need to identify and understand mechanisms for…
Cloud Computing Demystified Day
Following on my previous post about organizing a day on Cloud Computing, I like to share the development about organizing the event. Each of the supporters for this event, IT University of Copenhagen,Alexandra Institute, CFIR (Copenhagen Finance IT Region) , and National IT & Telecom Agency have been mobilizing their networks to spread the word…
NxGT for GSD
Organizations are increasingly adopting geographically distributed development models, which are commonly known as Global Software Development or Global Software Engineering (GSE). There are many forms of GSD such as outsourcing, offshoring, nearshoring, software ecosystems, distributed development centres, and strategic alliances and partnerships for developing software at different places. GSD is not any more a phenomenon…
Summer School on EBSE
I am extremely delighted to annouce that I have seized an opportunity to run a summer school for PhD students on Systematic Literature Reviews and Systematic Mapping studies, two of the fundamental research methodologies of Evidence Based Software Engineering. The story is something like this – Jason Zhang was coming to Europe from Australia to…