Steve Force

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Agile Tools, etc

• Version One
  VersionOne is recognized by Agile practitioners as the leader in Agile project management tools.  By simplifying the process of planning and tracking Agile software projects, we help development teams consistently deliver software faster.
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Agile Links

• Extreme Programming.org
  The first Extreme Programming project was started March 6, 1996. Extreme Programming is one of several popular Agile Processes. It has already been proven to be very successful at many companies of all different sizes and industries world wide. (more)

 

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Web 2.0

• Web 2.0 defined

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OMG General

• The Object Management Group (OMG)

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Model Driven Architecture (MDA)

• Model Driven Architecture (MDA)
• Model Driven Architecture (MDA) - FAQ
• Zachman Framework and the OMG's Model Driven Architecture (PDF)

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Meta Object Facility (MOF)

• Meta Object Facility (MOF)

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Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)

• SOA Plus UDDI: The top seven dangers in tacking the service-oriented architecture (SOA) without a business service registry
• SUN Developer Network (SDN): What's New in SOA and Web Services?
• Connecting the SOA dots with UDDI
• IBM Whitepaper: SOA development using the IBM Rational Software Platform: A practical Guide
• Enterprise service bus defined 
• MSFT MSDN: SOA
• Web Services and Service-Oriented Architectures
• SOA and web services
• Message oriented middleware (MOM) defined
• Sun & SeeBeyond: A Technical Overview of SOA - Webinar

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Web Services

• Web Service defined
• OASIS UDDI: UDDI Products and components

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Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Defined
• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Software From SAP
• Microsoft Dynamics Defined
• Microsoft Dynamics website
• Oracle E-Business Suite Defined
• IBM: Solutions: ERP (Enterprise resource planning)

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BPM/ECM/EAI

• Business Process Management (BPM): defined (Wiki)
  Enterprise Content Management (ECM): defined (Wiki)
• Enterprise Application Integration (EAI): defined (Wiki)
  
  
  Industry Standards: BPEL and BPMN
  
  
• BPEL - Business Process Execution Language (Wiki)
• BPMN - Business Process Modeling Notation (Wiki)
  
  Enterprise Process Management (EPM) Products
  
• Savvion
• Pega Systems
• Lombardi Software
• Oracle bought BEA after BEA bought Fuego

Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Products


• SeeBeyond
• Documentium defined (Wiki)
• EMC2 ECM (Documentium)
• IBM's description of Documentium
• Configuring the Google Enterprise Connector for EMC Documentum
  
  
• IBM's FileNet defined (Wiki)
• IBM® FileNet® Content Manager
• IBM's Enterprise Content Management
• "Open Text"(Wiki)
• Open Text Corporate website
  
  
• Stellent (now Oracle) (Wiki)
• Oracle/Stellent
• Oracle Universal Content Management (UCM) Resource site
• Vignette Corporation (Wiki)
• Vignette corporate site
• Interwoven (now Autonomy) (Wiki)
• Interwoven corporate site
• Open Text corporate site

       Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Associations/Certifications

AIIM Enterprise Content Management (ECM)

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Microsoft .NET

• Microsoft .NET- Defined
• Microsoft .NET main website

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IBM Websphere

• IBM WebSphere - Defined
• IBM Websphere main website

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IBM Websphere MQ

• IBM WebSphere MQ - Defined
• IBM Websphere MQ main website
• IBM Redbook - MQ Series Primer

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Rational

• IBM Rational
• Rational Unified Process (RUP) - Defined
• Rational Unified Process (RUP)
• RUP overview whitepaper
• Use Case" - Defined
• Forrester report: Big changes coming for RUP
• Gartner Magic Quadrant for IT Project and Portfolio Management, 2005
• Other Rational Analyst Reports..
• Rational Rose -  defined
• Rational Method Composer
• Rational RequisitePro
• Rational ClearQuest
• Rational ClearCase

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Enterprise Architect

• Enterprise Architecture - Defined
• The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) - Defined
• Zachman Institute for Framework Advancement (ZIFA)
• Bredemeyer Consulting
• Gartner's Enterprise Architecture Process and Framework Help Meet 21st Century Challenges
• Enterprise Architecture Interest Group (EAIG)

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Software Architecture

• Software Engineering Institute (SEI) - Carnegie Mellon

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Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)

• CMMI

Apache Software Foundation

• Apache Software Foundation main page
• Struts

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Unified Modeling Language (UML)

• Practical UML: A Hands-On Introduction for Developers

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Development Resources

• Ruby on Rails
• Code Gear Developer Network - Borland

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Software Testing/QA

• Software Testing - Defined
• Software testing tools - IBM
• Software testing tools - Open Source
• QA tools - HP (old Mercury tool, etc)
• Traceability Matrix - Defined
• Test Cases - Defined

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General Resource

• Menlo Institute White papers

 

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Virtual Worlds

• "Virtual World" Defined
• "Emerging Virtual Institutions" Defined
• "Metaverse" Defined
• "Simulated reality" Defined
• "Virtual globe" Defined
• "Virtual reality" Defined
• "Web3D Consortium" Defined

• "Second Life" Defined
• "World of Warcraft" Defined

• "SLEntrepreneur Magazine" - a publication dedicated to business in the virtual world Second Life.
• "The Metaverse Journal" - a site devoted to bringing an Australian perspective to virtual worlds.

 

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