After the explosion of e- (e-mail, e-commerce, …) and the invasion of i- (iphone, i-card, …) is now the turn of the smart-. Just last night, when I returned from Rome, at the Florence station I saw “Italo” the latest cry for high-speed trains: trendy, technological, beautiful Italian design and … a “SMART” cross writing […]

It is commonly believed that business process analysis and handling is the core of a modern information systems, the most important pre-requisite of any other investigation or implementation. There is no doubt that business processes matter: business processes are the dynamic structure of the firm, events (messages, orders, goods tec.) are created and consumed, system […]

We have just celebrate intuition as an effective  tool to find a solution, to conceive a system instead of relying exclusively on the art of reasoning. In fact reasoning, a very important human faculty, has been long overestimated in all scientific areas and in computer science in particular. Even great minds, great geniuses like E.W. […]

There are many fad methods around that give you absolutely guaranteed recipes to design great software system. We have only one of such recipe: understand what has really to be done. This is a method and a moral duty: do not start coding until you have really understood the system you are going to design. […]

The classic “ten-steps-to-success” methods in system engineering should be regarded with distrust. It is almost impossible or, at least very improbable, to cope with an articulated reality made of light, darkness and in-between nuances with a sort of unerring and clear-cut recipe. Nevertheless, we can find inspiration from a quite simple and, above all quite […]