David Frankel Consulting

Software Industrialization and the New IT 

An Executive Overview of Model-Driven Architecture^®

Audience: IT executives

Duration: 90 minutes

Prerequisites: None

Abstract: Model-Driven Architecture (MDA^®) and model-driven technology in general are part of a trend toward industrializing software development, deployment, and operational management. The increasing demands that value chain driven business places on IT is driving this movement.  Commoditization of IT infrastructures, pointed out by Nicholas Carr in the Harvard Business Review, is part of the industrialization picture. However, the convergence of MDA with Business Process Management will create a new kind of IT that Carr hasn't factored into the picture.

Outline:

      Commoditization: Where Carr is Right
         Commoditization of Infrastructure
         Commoditization of Labor
      The Demands of Value Chain Business     
      MDA: Industrializing Software
         Blueprints 
         Components
         Patterns
         Product Lines
      The New IT: What Carr is Missing
         Computer-Assisted Business Process Management