Agile Software Development in Large Organizations
I was unusually cynical in my consideration of 'agile' development a few days ago in a comment to John's posting. I was, however, sufficiently intrigued and did some more reading on the subject. I value the IEEE Computer articles and often treat them as authoritative. This is a good one on the subject but it is copyrighted - I cannot reproduce it here. I always urge people to join the IEEE (or at least its CompSoc).

A very strange story about how the Macintosh Graphing Calculator got built...

http://www.pacifict.com/Story/

I was looking at the SEI site for the latest on CMMI when I found they have been doing some work on Software Architecture reconstruction....
http://www.sei.cmu.edu/ata/ata_extraction.html

CIOC_AIC_Service Component Based Architectures _2.0_FINAL.pdf (application/pdf Object)I found this document very easy and useful to read. Highly recommended. Comments, please...

Web Services and Service-Oriented Architectures
This is a very good tutorial source, with meaningful diagrams which allow one to drill down for some more detail. See what you think; post some comments.

A good site for educating our brethren across the pond on the meanings of some 'real English' expressions...

http://www.effingpot.com/slang.shtml

This is another of Alistair's presentations. It brings a whole new meaning to methodology tailoring!

Methodologies As Swimsuits