Software, research, and leadership
I had to miss the second day of ICSOC, but was back for the morning of the third, and another great keynote, on Web-Scale Computing, from Peter Vosshall – a VP and Distinguished Engineer at Amazon. Amazon needs a highly reliable and scalable infrastructure internally to run its retail business, but has also been selling …
The 6th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing is on in Sydney this week. NICTA is a sponsor, and I managed to score a registration to attend. Ian Foster opened with an interesting keynote. (Preceded by a 30 minute delay fussing with Mac technology issues!) He spoke on “Services for Science” – how SOA is …
The NICTA lab where I work finally moved offices into a newly constructed building in September. The new building’s great – it’s such a nice change to have some natural light, and they’ve also installed a world-class coffee machine in the lunch room. The “designer rust” panels on the side of the building tend to …
Our paper “An Exploratory Study of Why organisations Do Not Adopt CMMI” has started to be cited in the literature. It’s been in the “hottest 25 downloads” for the journal since it became available 3 quarters ago, so I’m hopeful the number of citations might grow. On one hand, it’s great to cited! On the …
The recent announcement by Somasegar at Microsoft that F# is being “productized” has now started to be picked up by various news agencies. Being productized means some future version of the F# language and its Visual Studio integration will be officially supported by Microsoft. However, I see a couple of people are implying that because …
Our paper on why companies don’t adopt CMMI is now available online. This paper describes the details of some issues I’ve talked about previously to various industry audiences. In this study, we found that some companies (especially small ones) felt there were barriers to adopting CMMI. For example, often they didn’t get around to considering …
On Tuesday 26 September I got back from Rio de Janeiro, after having attended ISERN (a research network), IASESE (a school), and ISESE (a conference). A full week of empirical software engineering goodness, but sadly not much spare time to look around Rio. ISESE (the International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering) was the main reason …
Last Friday afternoon, Ian Gorton wrapped up the four days of the Australian Software Engineering Conference (ASWEC) 2006 programme with a simple closing address. It was a huge week, and fantastic to see it all go off so well. Kudos to Ian – the conference general chair – for making it all happen. Jun Han …
On Tuesday, Mahmood Niazi presented a conference paper of ours, “Experiences Using Systematic Review Guidelines” at EASE 2006.
NICTA has published a technical report (PDF here) containing the details of a systematic review of reasons why organizations adopt CMM-based SPI, which I co-authored with Mahmood Niazi. At the recent NICTA Software Engineering breakfast seminars I spoke about some of the results from this systematic review. Systematic review is a methodology for finding, collating, …