Recently I had the privilege to appear in the Member Profile section of the Open Source Initiative newsletter because I am the first person to be three-time OSI member in one go. As I serve OW2 community as a director, I’m the reference contact for OSI as OW2 Associate member. As the director of Engineering Group’s Open Source Competence Center, I’m the reference contact for OSI as a corporate sponsor.… Read the rest
Orgoglioso di essere tre volte affiliato ad OSI
Ho di recente avuto l’onore di comparire nella sezione Member Profile della newsletter di Open Source Initiative perché sono il primo membro ad essere affiliato per ben tre volte! Come direttore del consorzio OW2, sono il riferimento nel ruolo di OW2 Associate member. Come direttore del Centro di Competenza Open Source di Engineering, sono affiliato come corporate sponsor. Infine, all’ultima conferenza OSCON di Portland mi sono associato come individual member.… Read the rest
Productivity Intelligence: a 3D analysis of Technical, Economical and Social data
At academic conferences on software measurement and analysis, I feel frustrated when I discover the software metric adopted by analysts. They tend to evaluate software development productivity using SLOC as a metric.
The reason for this is almost always the same: we need data, large amounts of data: the only available and reliable data are SLOC. Which is the correlation between SLOC and software development? The number of lines of code per day?… Read the rest
Building Innovation Momentum
Here you can find the presentation that supported my speech at the latest edition of the European Summit on the Future Internet, held in Aveiro, Portugal on June 14th, 2013. Aveiro is a nice place which I would highly recommend (just like Portugal).
I took part in the “Big Data, Cloud, Smart Spaces, IoT, M2M panel discussion”.
A summary of my speech follows.
Getting things started from Nexus of Events.… Read the restValue is the most meaningful V for Big Data
How many Vs do you need to describe Big Data dimensions?
12 years ago Doug Laney listed the 3 dimensions of Data management in a Gartner (then Meta Group) research: Volume, Variety, Velocity.
Nowadays, the evolution of Data Management also refers to Big Data. In order to describe it, Gartner added a C to the 3Vs: Volume, Variety, Velocity, Complexity.
Forrester added Variability. Is Variability like Complexity?