"I would say where I am in Australia there's not much talk about MDSE so maybe its failed to get traction with large projects as a way to deliver systems. However, when I look at some of the tools that we use every day they look a…"
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Juha-Pekka Tolvanen May 7, 2009.
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Michael Osmond replied to Jorge Ubeda's discussion Selling MDD
"I think Peter’s article is an excellent summary of the problems facing using MDD when selling software. The question is how do you turn your investment in MDD and code generation into money through the door. I think Peter has covered many of…"
Juha-Pekka Tolvanen replied to Michael Osmond's discussion Competitive Advantage
"The reason why most DSLs are not public is exactly the fit of activities as Michael described it. For the same reason we at MetaCase can only show screenshots of the languages created (as about 20 cases here:…"
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Competitive Advantage
Does Model Driven Software Engineering result in a true “competitive advantage” for an organisation? From what I have read of things promoting MDD/MDA the answer is supposed to be “yes”. However…..Michael Porter in the article “What is Strategy” (Harvard Business Review, Nov-Dec. 1996) suggests that strategic competitive advantages comes from choices about what activities a company undertakes and the trade offs required in making those choices. A simple example is McDonalds chooses to make…See More
Sean Kavanagh replied to Michael Osmond's discussion Competitive Advantage
"A very interesting observation. It highlights the fact that using MDD simply to make a specific project more efficient or better in some way is not an end in itself. MDD only becomes a strategic advantage when a whole software department (or…"
Jorge Ubeda replied to Michael Osmond's discussion Competitive Advantage
"It depends on your focus, in my opinion. It´s important to make a difference if your business is Software Engineering, building tools or selling consultancy. If your business is outside and is looking for better ways for building your business…"
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Competitive Advantage
Does Model Driven Software Engineering result in a true “competitive advantage” for an organisation? From what I have read of things promoting MDD/MDA the answer is supposed to be “yes”. However…..Michael Porter in the article “What is Strategy” (Harvard Business Review, Nov-Dec. 1996) suggests that strategic competitive advantages comes from choices about what activities a company undertakes and the trade offs required in making those choices. A simple example is McDonalds chooses to make…See More
Michael Osmond replied to Rui Curado's discussion How to make MDSD more attractive to the "mere developer mortal"?
"My first reaction to the question is the problem is right there - "mere developer mortal", do we have to be more than mere developer mortals to get this?
However, I will try a left field answer: how about we stop paying people by lines of…"
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- My interest in Model Driven Software Development:
- Configuration Management, Processes, Release Management, Install and Deployment
Key question: How do we apply MDD/Generation techniques to the confirguration management and process automation needed for software product lines etc? How do we make it easier?
- My experience of Model Driven Software Development:
- Built and manage the build and release processes for a Software Product line built on Model Driven Development.
Modelled and now generate the installer packages for our product delivery.
Comment Wall (3 comments)
- At 8:54 on February 12, 2009,
Neil Loughran said… - Sure Michael, shall we take this offline?
My email address can be found by typing in my name in google (I won't type it here in case a bot picks it up ;-) )
- At 17:53 on January 30, 2009,
Mark Dalgarno said…
- At 18:39 on December 14, 2008,
- Hi Michael,
Any comments on how to make the site useful are most welcome.
Mark
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