With the official launch of Visual Studio 2010 and Windows Azure last week, there have been welcome changes to Microsoft’s support of open source and open standards in web development.
Planned for launch late next year or in early 2011, Autolib’ will place 4,000 electric cars at 1,400 self-service rental and recharging stations around Paris for short-term, temporary use.
There are some interesting things happening around the world, when it comes to local government opening up data for use by the general public.
One of the most important things for any agile team to understand is their velocity. Velocity is a term used in agile software development to illustrate the “rate of progress” for a team, related to a project or program.
There is a great case study on from Forrester on United Business Media’s use of Social Business Software. UBM use Jive SBS as their platform and after a couple of roadbumps, demonstrated tangible hard cash benefits and employee satisfaction
As a proponent of customer-centric development efforts, agile methods, and frameworks such as Ruby on Rails, it probably comes as no surprise that I am also a big fan of story tests and test-driven development (TDD) in general.
You’ve heard of software-as-a-service (SaaS)? Well, Cisco intends to offer cities as a service, bundling urban necessities – water, power, traffic, telephony – into a single, Internet-enabled utility, taking a little extra off the top of every resident’s bill.
I have experimented with Agile project management tools over the years, trying to find something that has a good balance of simplicity and functionality. Nothing beats a good old-fashioned “project wall” or board for radiating information to the team and stakeholders … or so I thought, until I discovered Pivotal Tracker.
It appears that great minds think alike. Further to my post about the application of the cloud computing paradigm to other areas, Peugeot has just announced its new Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS?) offering.
As an agile and lean practitioner, I find that the theory of abstraction offered by the cloud meshes with my thoughts on business, and have started wondering how we can apply this more generally.
