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Our editorial board member Philippe Kruchten has even formulated a rule of thumb—that the half-life of software engineering ideas is about fi ve years (www.computer.org/portal/web/ comput i ng now/ 0 4 09 / what snew/ software), which seems to imply a continual race to keep up with the latest ideas as the old ones become less relevant. But a generally tough economic climate seems to have made the problem even worse. Never before have I seen such pressure to “do more with less” across organizations working in all kinds of domains: scientifi c, commercial, government, small companies, large companies .... The risk of not being aware of potential solutions that can help organizations change the way they do business for the better