Software modernization for business applications is often driven by the need for supporting additional frontend channels such as web or mobile. At the same time, business logic encapsulated by services and the underlying persistence implementation should be reused. In contrast to writing new...

This is the first chapter in Part 3. Its purpose is to contrast the value structure of platform systems with step processes from a technological perspective. I first review the basic technical architecture of computers and argue that every computer is inherently a platform for performing...

This paper investigates whether investments in lean agile software development via training, specifically retraining and coaching, increase software development productivity and produce commensurate improvements in financial performance of the software development firm. Two experiments involving...