Forrester Research has good things to say about ALF

Just before the holidays Carl Zetie wrote a compelling new report on "The Power Of Simplicity In Application Development - Practical Steps Eliminate And Prevent Complexity". In this report, which is available from Forrester Research, Carl describes how Simplicity needs to be a design force that pervades not only the architecture of our applications but should be a factor in the processes we use to develop systems and in the very tooling we select to develop those applications.

He points to the Application Lifecycle Framework's (ALF) merits of being Vendor Neutral, Externally Defined and Minimally Scoped as being important attribute's of the framework's adoption of simplicity in its design. Though he is concerned about the effect of changes in vendors tools once ALF has been implemented.

Happy New Year,

Kevin