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The Elephant in the Room: Using Brain Science to Enhance Working Relationships

The new brain science (social neuroscience, positive psychology, and imaging techniques) give us tools for understanding and enhancing the ability of men and women to work together. Companies like Deloitte & Touche and IBM have seen financial results including increased retention of women by training their managers to use gender intelligence.

Diana Larsen Sharon Buckmaster
on Oct 29, 2009
Building an Agile Team

Building an agile software development team is not easy. Many managers and team leads hire technically capable people, throw some form of an agile process at the team, and hope that everything works as well as the literature says it does. This approach is not only unrealistic, but is prone to failure. This article will describe the components of a successful team and how we built this team.

Darren Hale
on Oct 20, 2009
Book Review: Understanding SCA

Four years after the publication of the first SCA specification draft, SCA remains a technology that is not well known or understood. Yet IBM and Oracle have built key product suites with it.Jim Marino and Michael Rowley, both co-authors of the SCA specifications, have published a practical guide to get started with SCA which covers the entire programming model from persistence to presentation.

Jean-Jacques Dubray
on Sep 10, 2009
The Role of Project Managers in Agile

Agile, as per books does not talk of role of manager but talks of a coach/facilitator. This article first explains the role of project manager in general in any industry and then tries to map it with the role of coach/facilitator in Agile. During this discussion, the article also tries to widen the scope of being a coach/facilitator.

Vinay Aggarwal
on Sep 02, 2009
Book Review: Ladder to SOE

A review of Michael Poulin's book, Ladder to SOE. Michael's book shows how to use the principles of service orientation to align IT with the business, and the business with market dynamics - creating the Service Oriented Enterprise. Becoming an SOE requires new habits of service-oriented thinking and Michael points these out along with techniques for effectively using them.

Dave West
on Aug 14, 2009
Supporting Advanced User Interaction Patterns in jBPM

Boris Lublinsky discusses task management in the jBPM and then demonstrates how to implement four advanced user interaction patterns(4-eyes principle, nomination, escalation, and chained execution) using JBoss and the jBPM. He also notes the advantages and limitations of these patterns.

Boris Lublinsky
on Aug 06, 2009
Collaborative Leadership and Collaborative Management

What is the role of a leader in today’s dynamic environments? Does traditional management provide value in a market that requires agility and adaptability? In this article, we propose a leadership and management framework that fits well with the current need for innovation and distributed decision-making.

Chris Matts Niel Nickolaisen Pollyanna Pixton
on Aug 05, 2009
Orchestrating Long Running Activities with JBoss / JBPM

Orchestrating activities that extend over very long periods (hours, days, weeks) is a common design issue. Although technically BPM engines are specifically design to ideal with this issue, they do so with standalone processes with corresponding issues arising from callback mechanisms. This article we will show one of the approaches to use JBoss jBPM for solving this problem.

Boris Lublinsky
on Jul 01, 2009
Using JBoss ESB and JBPM for Implementing VMS Solutions

In a new article, Boris Lublinsky discusses how the JBoss middleware platform, specifically JBoss ESB and jBPM (JBoss Business Process Management) can be used to integrate both internal and third-party services to deliver composite services and content in customer-specific forms, including Web services, WAP, portals, and more.

Boris Lublinsky
on May 29, 2009
The Economics of Service Orientation

This article explores the structural economic changes brought up by service orientation. Most IT organizations today are under enormous financial pressure trying to keep rising costs and flat budgets in synch. The restructuring brought about by the concept of services and reuse at the service level promises long lasting relief from the cost treadmill.

Jackson He Mark Chang Parviz Peiravi Enrique Castro-Leon
on May 16, 2009
The Emergence of Virtual Service Oriented Grids

This article introduces and discusses three technologies, virtualization, service orientation, and grid computing, and then shows how they are combining to create new design and deployment options - "Virtual Service Oriented Grids." The business case for using this emergent model is also discussed.

Jackson He Mark Chang Parviz Peiravi Enrique Castro-Leon
on Apr 30, 2009
The Problem of Power Consumption in Servers

Power consumption by servers is of increasing concern to business and IT management. This Intel article discusses the sources of power consumption as a function of server form factor and workload; power consumption of other components, power supplies and conversion, plus heat generation and cooling demands. How to estimate consumption and design factors affecting consumption are also covered.

Intel
on Apr 01, 2009