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First session of the last morning, Eduardo Chiocconi of BEA and Rob Wald of JPMorgan Chase talked about the ALBPM UI: what comes out of the box, and what you can build yourself. Out of the box, ALBPM has three... Read More..

I'm jumping around between tracks (and hence rooms): I started the afternoon in the ALUI Experience track, then on to the ALBPM Technical/Developer track, and now I'm in the ALBPM Experience track for a discussion of best practices for managing... Read More..

David Messerschmitt, a prof at UC Berkeley and the Helsinki University of Technology, finished the formal presentations for the day with a talk on how inter-firm cooperation can be improved in the software industry. This is an interesting wrap-up, since... Read More..

Bob Glushko, a prof at UC Berkeley, and Shelley Evenson, a prof at CMU, discussed different views on bridging the front stage and back stage in service system design. As a side note, I have to say that it's fun... Read More..

Martin Griss of CMU West and Adam Blum of Mobio Networks had a fairly interactive discussion about integrating traditional software engineering practices into modern service oriented development. Griss is a big proponent of agile development, and believes that the traditional... Read More..

Michael Cusumano is with the MIT Sloan School of Management, and has written several books on the changing software industry; he spoke today about the changing business of software. In general, there is a decline of new enterprise software product... Read More..

Often, when I receive a request for a meeting on something that's far outside of my usual BPM/Enterprise 2.0 interests, I'll turn it down. However, when the meeting is with various deans and professors at Carnegie Mellon University West about... Read More..

I had an email yesterday from my friend Robb, which I have his permission to publish here. Robb used to work for me -- in fact, I think that I hired him a total of three times -- and... Read More..

I was on the treadmill this morning with Malcolm Gladwell. Actually, he was on my iPod, and I was watching his talk from TED 2004, which was posted recently on the TEDTalks site (not sure if the timing is correct... Read More..

I've been a member of IEEE for over 20 years, and browse the periodicals that arrive at my door monthly, but have just become aware of the content that they offer to members and non-members on Spectrum Online. I've downloaded... Read More..