James Taylor (no, not that James Taylor, the other one) had an interesting article about SOA’s, agility, and architecture. While the article is a riff on another article (which makes this a meta-riff, I suppose) , it got me to thinking about the development lifecycle. I think it is very ironic that in ETL and data-oriented programming we run into the same contradictions all the time: [...]

Classifying ETL It will help to take a bit of time to discuss how software development is classified. Historically, classification of software development were done around methodology and/or representations. Some common ways to look at development are: Procedural Programming (C, Fortran, BASIC, and many, many, many others) Object Oriented Programming (Java, C++, Smalltalk) Pipe Oriented Programming (Shell Scripting) Set Oriented Programming (SQL) Hybrids [...]

Project X Discussions has an interesting article about project staffing and the bloat that often occurs with data related projects. In a number of client environments I have often been amazed by the number of people that can be assigned to a project. Project Managers, Business Users, Business Analysts, Architects, Technical Analysts, Developers, Database Analysts, Database Administrators, Data Modelers, Subject Matter Experts, Testing specialists, Data [...]