July 17, 2008

Brownfield Model

My arms hurt. Typing little. Read a book today about Brownfield Model: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownfield_(software_development)

Wondering where the Agile Model breaks down... and think I may being doing something Brownfield-ish already. Not sure.

Concerned about the future as we develop more and more complex systems, and build on top of those. Good to read formal treatments of this.

2 comments:

Mark said...

Very cool! I've been looking for something like this. Think I'll order myself a copy of the book.

Keith said...

I think this is where the work is needed. I don't understand it really or how to inject it, but my feelers tell me that this is important and significant.

I think what the book said about "parochialism" (sp?) is true.

I didn't understand the practical process in the iterative "view".

Actually, their VITA business didn't completely make sense to me, but there was something good tasting about it.

I think the correspondence to building architecture is a good one. Design patterns are cool.

I think much of the struggle is stemming from seeing the fleeting use of hard work... and trying to pin what lasts.

Off the keyboard, Vetter!