Let me begin this issue of CBR with a statement of full disclosure: I have not often been a fan of modeling-based approaches to software development, at least not in some of their common manifestations. Software modeling is a practice that often, in my opinion, succumbs to a "forest for the trees" problem. Managers confronting business problems are often justified when they ask, amid mind-numbing discussions about abstract diagrams of yet-to-be-built systems, whether modeling efforts truly move them toward real solutions in an efficient manner.
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An Update on Software Modeling: Practices and Patterns
Posted November 1, 2003 | Technology | Cutter Benchmark Review
About The Author
Robert D. Austin is a Cutter Consortium Fellow and a member of Arthur D. Little's AMP open consulting network. He is a regular speaker at the annual Cutter Summit and often delivers Cutter Bootcamps. Dr. Austin served as a professor on the faculty at Harvard Business School for more than a decade, and then as Professor of Management of Innovation & Digital Transformation at the Copenhagen Business School in Denmark. He is currently Professor… Read More
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