Architectural Fidelity with Globally Distributed Software Development Teams

Software businesses that engage in offshore outsourcing face a number of risks. Of particular importance to the software architect, is the risk associated with the architectural fidelity of the company’s software products. Small and mid-sized enterprises (SMEs) and ISVs face greater levels of difficulty than do their large enterprise counterparts when it comes to managing [...] [...]

By Walter | March 19th, 2009 | No Comments | Read More »

Code Contracts in .NET Help Distributed Software Development Teams

Code Contracts are very useful under any circumstance; however, they are particularly useful in helping distributed software development teams increase team efficiency, improve product quality, and mitigate against risks associated with team dispersion. [...]

By Walter | March 17th, 2009 | 1 Comment | Read More »

The Importance of Cloud Abstraction

My colleague, Peter Palmieri, just penned a blog post about Microsoft’s recent announcement that the Azure platform will offer extensive and familiar relational database features via SQL Data Services (SDS). In his post, Leveraging Skills, Peter discusses the fact that .NET [...]

By Walter | March 16th, 2009 | No Comments | Read More »