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Michael Osmond
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Juha-Pekka Tolvanen May. 7, 2009.

 

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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 the iss…
June 28
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: http://www.metacase.com/cases/dsm_exampl
May 7, 2009
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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” (…
April 19, 2009
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 organis…
April 19, 2009
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 appli…
April 19, 2009
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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” (…
April 19, 2009
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 code, or…
March 18, 2009
Rui, I suspect it takes time and effort to get these groups going and growing, and also quite a large body of people to sustain it. So, it may be as simple as there is not enough people yet to really get this going. I think that you will find vari…
March 16, 2009

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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.

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At 8:54am 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 5:53pm on January 30, 2009, Mark Dalgarno said…
Hi,

You might also want to check out the recently launched Practical Product Lines network.

Mark
At 6:39pm on December 14, 2008, Mark Dalgarno said…
Hi Michael,

Any comments on how to make the site useful are most welcome.

Mark
 
 
 

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