1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910784652303321

Autore

Guttman Michael

Titolo

Real-life MDA [[electronic resource] ] : solving business problems with model driven architecture / / Michael Guttman and John Parodi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

San Francisco, CA, : Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, c2005

ISBN

1-280-74693-9

9786610746934

0-08-046835-7

Edizione

[1st edition]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (223 pages)

Collana

The MK/OMG Press

Altri autori (Persone)

ParodiJohn

Disciplina

658.4/038

Soggetti

Information technology - Management

Computer software - Development

Software architecture

System design

Management information systems

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Title page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Compuware/State of Ohio Job and Family Services; Background; Why Ohio JFS Chose An MDA Approach and What They Hoped to Achieve; Challenges; Expanding Goals (or Lack Thereof); How MDA Was Used; Process and Tools; Division of Labor; Project Experience; Organizational Development; Ongoing and Planned Use of MDA; Chapter 3 Soluta.Net/Coopservice Case Study: Facilities Management Industry; Background; Why Coopservice Chose an MDA Approach and What They Hoped to Achieve

ChallengesExpanding Goals; How MDA Was Used; Process and Tools; Division of Labor; Project Experience; Organizational Development; Results and Benefits; Client Assessment of the MDA Experience; Chapter 4 Select Business Solutions/Austrian Health Authority; Background; Why Hauptverband Chose an MDA Approach and What They Hoped to Achieve; How MDA Was Used; Process and Tools; Division of Labor; Project Experience; Results and Benefits; Client



Assessment of the MDA Experience; Chapter 5 Inherit/Harris Case Study: Telecommunications Industry; Background

Why Harris Chose an MDA Approach and What They Hoped to AchieveChallenges; Expanding Goals; How MDA Was Used; Process and Tools; Division of Labor; Project Experience; Results and Benefits; Ongoing and Planned Use of MDA; Chapter 6 Data Access Technologies/GSA: Executable Enterprise Architecture; Background; Why GSA Chose an MDA Approach and What They Hoped to Achieve; Challenges; Expanding Goals; How MDA Was Used; Process and Tools; Division of Labor and Training; MDA and the Federal Government's Software Development Approach; Project Experience; Organizational Development

Results and BenefitsOngoing and Planned Use of MDA; Chapter 7 Interactive Objects/Daimler Case Study: Automotive Industry; Background; Why Daimler Chose an MDA Approach and What They Hoped to Achieve; Expanding Goals; How MDA Was Used; Process and Tools; Division of Labor; Model Driven Offshoring (MDO); Project Experience; Organizational Development; Results and Benefits; Ongoing and Planned Use of MDA; Assessment of the MDA Experience; Chapter 8 Summing Up the Parts; Making the Business Case for MDA; Separation of Concerns; Traceability and Governance; Stakeholder Communication

Agile and Iterative DevelopmentThe OMG's FastStart Program; MDA FastStart Activities and Deliverables; MDA FastStart Assessment; MDA Enterprise Architecture Review; MDA Transition Plan; MDA Executive Seminars; MDA Practicum; Appendix: A (Very) Brief MDA Primer; What is MDA?; Different Strokes; Further Reading; Glossary; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Model Driven Architecture (MDA) is a new approach to software development that helps companies manage large, complex software projects and save development costs while allowing new technologies that come along to be readily incorporated. Although it is based on many long-standing industry precepts and best practices, such as UML, it is enough of a departure from traditional IT approaches to require some ""proof of the pudding."" Real-Life MDA is composed of six case studies of real companies using MDA that will furnish that proof. The authors' approach MDA projects by describing all asp



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910973320903321

Autore

Lefkowitz Mary R. <1935->

Titolo

History lesson : a race odyssey / / Mary Lefkowitz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, Conn., : Yale University Press, c2008

ISBN

1-282-08945-5

9786612089459

0-300-14519-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 p.)

Disciplina

907.1/17447

Soggetti

History - Study and teaching (Higher) - Massachusetts

Postmodernism and higher education

Racism in higher education

Antisemitism in higher education

Academic freedom

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-187) and index.

Nota di contenuto

A racist incident? -- Discovering afrocentrism -- Two views of ancient history -- Turning myths into history -- A new anti-Semitism -- Truth or slander? -- Reparations? -- A racist polemic? -- Turning history into fiction.

Sommario/riassunto

In the early 1990's, Classics professor Mary Lefkowitz discovered that one of her faculty colleagues at Wellesley College was teaching his students that Greek culture had been stolen from Africa and that Jews were responsible for the slave trade. This book tells the disturbing story of what happened when she spoke out. Lefkowitz quickly learned that to investigate the origin and meaning of myths composed by people who have for centuries been dead and buried is one thing, but it is quite another to critique myths that living people take very seriously. She also found that many in academia were reluctant to challenge the fashionable idea that truth is merely a form of opinion. For her insistent defense of obvious truths about the Greeks and the Jews, Lefkowitz was embroiled in turmoil for a decade. She faced institutional indifference, angry colleagues, reverse racism, anti-Semitism, and even a lawsuit intended to silence her. In History Lesson Lefkowitz describes what it



was like to experience directly the power of both postmodernism and compensatory politics. She offers personal insights into important issues of academic values and political correctness, and she suggests practical solutions for the divisive and painful problems that arise when a political agenda takes precedence over objective scholarship. Her forthright tale uncovers surprising features in the landscape of higher education and an unexpected need for courage from those who venture there.