In his book, The Goal, Eliyahu M. Goldratt presents a way to optimize a plant using his Theory of Constraints. This book lays out the concepts that later will inspire the agile methodologies, which is applying the Theory of Constraints to the development of software. The book The Phoenix Project relates the concepts explained in The Goal with IT and software development.
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In my last post I informally introduced the notion of metamodel and mentioned that one of the tools that is used around them is Eclipse Modelling Framework (EMF). In this post, I am presenting EMF because it is at the heart of a lot of other MDE technologies. What Is EMF?
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This is an informal introduction to metamodeling. The target audience for this post are developers that find themselves working with metamodeling tools but have never been introduced to them and need a basic understanding to finish the task at hand. What Is a Metamodel? Let us start with a simple example, your software needs to represent arithmetic expression additions.
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