Louis Taborda

Member for

12 years 6 months

Louis is the managing consultant and founder of the Alinement Network, operating out of Sydney, Australia. He has been chief technologist formulating the ALM vision for a leading tool vendor and works across the project lifecycle to streamline processes and bridge the business - technology divide. With over twenty-five years of software and systems experience he recently completed a PhD that applied Configuration Management (CM) and agile principles to managing change and architectural complexity. This work provides the foundation for the release-centric lifecycle described in his book, Enterprise Release Management: Agile Delivery of a Strategic Change Portfolio, published in late 2012 - see enterpriserelease.com

Company

Alinement Network

Job Function

Consulting

Job Title

Managing Consultant

Industry

Business Services - Consulting - Non-profit

Interests

Agile Development

Country

Australia

Louis Taborda

Louis Taborda works for alinement, an enterprise company that assists leading organizations across the Asia-Pacific region to design, create, and manage sophisticated technology-based products and solutions that drive business success. He lives in Australia.

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	Embracing Change and Complexity Louis J. Taborda explains that in order to be successful, we need to be able to embrace both change and complexity while being agile. The more quickly we develop software and the greater the sophistication of the solutions we build, the more difficult it is to maintain agility.
	SCM Predictions from the 1990's: Are We There Yet (2006)? Making predictions is fraught with danger and the last thing forecasters need is somebody to actually compare their predictions with reality. In SCM there were key attempts to project the future of the discipline and the tools that support it. As a dozen years have elapsed since these predictions were made, it is time to assess their accuracy and determine where SCM has been and where it still needs to go.
	Golden Patterns and Symmetries in Concurrent Development Patterns have provided a means of capturing recurring themes in software development and have been successful utilized to describe a number of software configuration management (SCM) practices [1, 2]. This article explores a higher-order pattern in concurrent development - more subtle and potentially powerful because of its applicability at a number of different levels of granularity.
	Convergence of Software Project and Configuration Management Whereas Project Management (PM) is a widely accepted, highly visible discipline, Configuration Management (CM) is too often seen as a low-level, technical discipline - a back-room activity that, while essential, does not command management attention.
	Delivering On Expectations: The Benefits of Integrated Requirements & Configuration Management The job of developing systems is a difficult and challenging one. In today’s business climate where the demand for capability is unparalleled and the expectation of quality ever increasing, taking a lifecycle perspective to the delivery of systems can provide a crucial advantage.