Tag Archives: Architecture

Adaptable Designs for Agile Software Evolution

Posted on May 5, 2013 by Hayim Makabee

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.” – Charles Darwin Big Design Up Front (BDUF) is considered a very bad … Continue reading →

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IASA IL meeting with Prof. Rick Kazman

Posted on December 7, 2012 by Hayim Makabee

The International Association of Software Architects (IASA) in Israel organized a special event with the participation of Prof. Rick Kazman, who talked about ”The Metropolis Model for Software Development”. Dr. Rick Kazman is a Professor at the University of Hawaii … Continue reading →

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On Information Hiding and Encapsulation

Posted on November 25, 2012 by Hayim Makabee

This month I participated in IBM Haifa’s Programming Languages and Software Engineering (PLSE) Seminar. There I had the opportunity to have lunch with David Parnas, one of the world pioneers in the field of Software Engineering. Parnas is the father … Continue reading →

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The Psychology of Reviews: Distinction Bias, Evaluability Hypothesis and the Framing Effect

Posted on October 21, 2012 by Hayim Makabee

Design Reviews are one of the most important activities in the software development process. If a bad design is approved and implemented, it is very expensive to correct that afterwards. Therefore, we want to have high confidence in our decisions … Continue reading →

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Yahoo! Cocktails: When the client is in the cloud

Posted on November 16, 2011 by Hayim Makabee

One of the reasons I’m proud to work at Yahoo! is that we have some very nice products that reach hundreds of millions of people worldwide. Another reason is that Yahoo! is behind the development of several advanced technologies and … Continue reading →

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The Agile Architect

Posted on June 28, 2011 by Hayim Makabee

The International Association of Software Architects (IASA) in Israel was honored to host a talk by Johanna Rothman last week (June/21/2011). Johanna Rothman is a consultant, author and speaker with vast experience with project management. She was visiting Israel and … Continue reading →

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Effective Design Reviews

Posted on October 24, 2010 by Hayim Makabee

This is the definition of Design Review from Wikipedia: “A design review is a process whereby a design is tested against its requirements prior to implementation.” There are at least two problems with this definition: The first problem is that … Continue reading →

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