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Mik Kersten

Mik Kersten började sin karriär som forskare på Xerox PARC där han skapade den första aspektorienterade utvecklingsmiljön. Han var sedan pionjär i integrationen av utvecklingsverktyg med Agile och DevOps som en del av sin doktorsexamen i datavetenskap vid University of British Columbia. Mik grundade Tasktop utifrån den forskningen och har skrivit över en miljon rader öppen källkod som fortfarande används idag, och han har tagit sju framgångsrika produkter med öppen källkod och kommersiella produkter till marknaden. Miks erfarenheter av att arbeta med några av de största digitala omvandlingarna i världen har fått honom att identifiera den kritiska bristen på kontakt mellan företagsledare och tekniker. Sedan dess har Mik arbetat med att skapa nya verktyg och ett nytt ramverk - Flow Framework™ - för att koppla samman nätverk för värdeskapande av programvara och möjliggöra övergången från projekt till produkt. Mik bor med sin familj i Vancouver, Kanada, och reser världen över för att dela med sig av sin vision om att förändra hur programvara byggs. Han är författare till Project To Product, en bok som hjälper IT-organisationer att överleva och blomstra i programvarans tidsålder.

Interview on ALM getting a bad name, how Agile and open source are changing that

Here is a short interview from The Server Side conference, with Jan Stafford of Software Quality Insights, on how ALM got a bad name from heavyweight methodologies like RUP, and why the move to Agile, open source and developer-centric tools is changing that. Yes, I am in fact holding an invisible crystal ball, which is...

Prediction #4: The single vendor ALM stack becomes extinct in organizations with more than two developers

Development managers at large organizations with monolithic application lifecycle management (ALM) stacks once had it good. ALM components were well integrated, played nicely with one another, and when they didn’t, there was someone to call. But lightweight issue trackers started to move into the organization, popularized by the need for developer-centric collaboration facilities. At a...

Mylyn Atlassian JIRA Connector Moving

The Mylyn JIRA Connector has been developed as part of the Eclipse Mylyn project since 2006 (Bug 109905), when Wesley Coelho and I met in a Vancouver coffee shop and decided to start collaborating on an idea for a startup that involved extending Mylyn’s open source integrations to commercial tools. A year later Wesley became...

Eclipse ecosystem: Open discourse at the risk of open conflict

Open discourse brings conflicts out from behind closed doors. A while back I was involved with an open source conflict that degraded technical discussions to power struggles. I looked to Bjorn Freeman-Benson and Mike Milinkovich the help resolve that conflict. This week, countless eyes were peeled on Planet Eclipse as a very public conflict arose...

Interview: How Software is Built

I very much enjoyed doing this interview for the Microsoft-created How Software is Built series. In terms of length, it may go against the less is more mantra, but for that I blame the skills of Scott Swigart and Sean Campbell, who raised some very interesting questions and insights. The interview covers building communities, bridging...

Tips on paying for free software

Comments on The Server Side have been voicing concerns about SpringSource’s new maintenance policy, which gives incentive to purchase a support contract if you’re building mission critical apps on Spring. I’ve been amazed at some of the dialog, which ranges from suggestions that SpringSource has neglected its community to recommendations that they should instead ask...

Living inside Eclipse, embedding browsers and Google Chrome

I just spotted a neat post about Living inside Eclipse. This line of reasoning is where Gail Murphy and I were at a couple of years ago when laying out plans for bringing the benefits of Mylyn and Eclipse to activities outside of programming. We had created an RCP version of Mylyn, coined the “task-focused...

Rich Editing for Tasks via Mylyn WikiText

Last April, David Green, Principal Tools Architect at Make Technologies, started a conversation with me about how neat it would be to have Mylyn’s task editor support markup for descriptions and comments. David is a long-time Mylyn user, and we brainstormed about providing this as a new feature for Bugzilla users in addition meeting the...