Architects Rule!

Three screens and a cloud let’s dream and then build!

2009-11-18T19:15:00Z

The yearly Professional Developers conference PDC has started yesterday and these are exciting times. Quite some architects in LA too, not the enterprise type but the tech architects made it.

Day 1 key note was an appearance by Ray Ozzie, Microsoft’s chief technology officer, and one of the key drivers behind Microsoft’s work in “cloud” computing.

Ray Ozzie key note was clear and simple. Three screens and a cloud in leveraging a seamless experience to you, your partners and your customers.

To quote Ray Ozzie directly: "A journey that started 4 years ago with our Software as a Service platform vision, now materializing. I believe that the world some number of years from now in terms of how we consume IT is really shifting from a machine-centric viewpoint to what we refer to as three screens and a cloud: the phone, the PC, and the TV ultimately, and how we deliver value to them.”

Three screens and a cloud is how Ray Ozzie positions the web or cloud as the hub and a world of devices. Information is typical consumed via one of three devices: The phone, the PC and the TV.

On the PC and mobile we’re making progress in connecting them to the cloud through services such as Windows Live services. Netbooks have sped up this process in many ways as a companion device to a larger PC you can get a great experience through sharing or synchronizing your devices through the cloud.

The TV side is also moving forward, more so devices that use that large screen or screens in your home to make it another way of connecting with the cloud. We all have our big screen hanging at the wall but let’s face it; the real power comes from the devices connected to it. An XBOX 360 a Media Center, a Zune, extending the experience and investments made in that silly screen hanging on your wall.

The cloud, the ultimate way to share data and context across all three screens, across all three devices; this is the great potential of Microsoft Azure and beyond. How to make sure your data is stored secure and reachable at all times by all three different experiences based upon where you are and what you are doing unleashing that power to you.

The next couple of days and weeks we will provide you with more insights in what this means for us, the architects.

Stay tuned for more updates!

Architect Forum: Connecting your business objectives with IT initiatives

2009-11-04T08:28:09Z

As Infrastructure Architects, you obviously are passionate, knowledgeable and experienced in IT infrastructure technology and want to keep in touch with the upcoming technology trends.
Evenly important, and increasingly important in these crisis period, is that you need to clearly connect business objectives with IT initiatives, in order to make sure that business understands the value of the IT platform and hence will free up those critical budgets for your initiatives.

Is it possible to connect business objectives with IT initiatives? Haven’t we tried too many times just to find that it is too hard? Well, in this session we will go through a proven process to asses you current Infrastructure and Business Productivity capabilities using the Microsoft Optimization Models, and proceed to demonstrate the new Infrastructure Capabilities Integration business solution catalogue for horizontal and industry solutions, which are the latest addition to the Microsoft Optimization Framework then we will go through a practical example of how to bridge a set of example business objectives to with their corresponding IT initiatives.

Our speaker: Eduardo Kassner, Enterprise Technology Architect has built up a ton of experience with these matters in real life cases and he will help you with this challenge in his well know no-nonsense way, combining structured frameworks with do-to-day reality and linking the discussions up-to-the level of the concrete Microsoft technology stack as well as how this relates to business reality in your average enterprise.

Date: 19 November 2009 Location: Golflife Sterrebeek

13:00 - 13:30 Welcome and registration

13:30 - 14:45 Connecting IT to Your Business Objectives: A conversation about the Microsoft Optimization Models

14:45 - 15:15 Break

15:15 - 16:15 Are you designing your User Experiences? How does Dynamic IT feel in the real world?

Can you say that you design the experience your user has on the IT environment they use day to day? Since 2003 Microsoft has been promoting the Dynamic IT initiative and producing software that delivers on this vision. The Dynamic IT vision promotes a virtual infrastructure, an Infrastructure that is designed for operations, a model based management tool set, and best practices such as ITIL, all of these to enhance the quality, reach and operational tempo of an IT organization, and by doing such, also enhance the end users experience. In this session we will go over several scenarios where we will compare current real world scenarios such as new en user desktop deployment, developers environment management, web service monitoring, and remote branch deployment to highlight not only the difference but with demonstrations how does it actually look and feel to have a Dynamic IT working for you and your end users.

16:15 - 17:15 Microsoft Software Roadmap: Portfolio Strategy For IT

As the role of IT continues the shift from cost cutting and efficiency to business strategy and people enablement, you need partners who are well positioned across the depth and breadth of technologies. Technologies which enable you to implement a Dynamic IT environment. Technologies that fit within your plans for a Services Oriented Architecture and fit well with the future promise of Software Plus Services. Technologies that you can trust to provide the best reliability and security. Technologies that work together to amplify the impact of the people in your organization. In this workshop you will have a chance to see and discuss Microsoft’s Software Roadmap of enterprise class technologies for delivering a People Ready Business from infrastructure to productivity applications.

17:15 - 18:00 Drink & networking

Architect Forum Online:

2009-10-10T01:11:13Z

Architectures for your Next Generation Business Applications

Last week 140 Architects took a deep dive into Architectures for your Next Generation Business Applications. We want to thank you for your presence! According to your feedback this was a valuable experience, that fulfilled your expectations. To have another look at the different sessions, please find the recordings below. For those who missed the event, you can take a look now!

The Future of User Experience and the Emotion Commotion

August de los Reyes (Microsoft) - The competitive environment for technology is changing, and its impact on user experience is deep: capabilities, features, and functions are no longer enough. Emotional engagement will distinguish successful consumer and enterprise experiences of the future. Designing in this world requires we change the way we think about people and products. This presentation provides a brief overview of a counter-intuitive emotional design approach and its application to things to come.
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Next Generation LOB Applications

Simon Guest (Microsoft) - Many organizations have chosen the Microsoft platform as a standard for LOB (Line of Business) applications. What does this investment look like moving forward? What comes after MFC and Windows Forms? How do WPF and Silverlight 3 change things? What about exposing data and generating reports? This session will answer these questions and explore technologies such as the ADO.NET Entity Framework, .NET RIA Services, WPF, and Expression Blend, to show end-to-end examples, tips, and techniques to create a roadmap for your next generation LOB applications.
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Setting-up a WPF line-of-business software factory

Olivier Raulot, Cristovao Figueiredo, Augusta Guernier (Getronics) - This session explains how to concretely and pragmatically set up an efficient WPF Software Factory that enables you to quickly build high-quality, rich applications that will blow away the expectations of "the business". Learn how to integrate the "Interactive Designer" role into your development process including from a tools perspective (glimpse of VS2010), take advantage of a navigation framework and a components suite, as well as maximise re-use in a WPF world via Styles and control templates packaging and the concept of toolkits. You will dive into a couple of world-class Belux customer cases that were build using this WPF Software Factory. Note that these concepts/tools equally well apply to Silverlight applications.
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Building Business Centric Applications with Silverlight 3 and .NET RIA Services

Brad Abrahams (Microsoft) - Discover Microsoft .NET RIA Services and Silverlight 3 and how they simplify the traditional n-tier application architectures by integrating the ASP.NET and Silverlight platforms. The RIA Services provides patterns for writing application logic that runs on the mid-tier and controls access to data for queries, changes and custom operations. It also provides end-to-end support for common tasks such as data validation, authentication and roles. Learn also how Silverlight 3 improvements enable rapid development and make your development process more productive.
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Patterns for Cloud Computing

Simon Guest (Microsoft) - Everything that you read these days seems to suggest that you should be moving to the cloud. But where do you start? Which applications and services should you be moving? How do you build the bridge between on-premises and the cloud? What client architecture patterns does it enable. And more importantly, what should you be looking out for along the way? Based on real-world scenarios, this session explores a set of pattern for applications that best take advantage of the cloud, together with working examples on the Windows Azure platform. This session provides the tools and knowledge to determine whether cloud computing is right for you, and where to start.
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Architects come and architects go. Thanks Philippe!!!

2009-10-09T21:03:00Z

It’s been quite on this blog over the summer, because there wasn’t that much news to tell, but also because the soul and heart of this blog, Philippe Destoop, has decided to take a next step in his career. He will stay with Microsoft Belgium but has just moved to our enterprise unit where he will advise large companies in their selection of application platform solutions. So I’m sure those in our geography will still bump into him from time to time.

I’d really like to thank Philippe for the valuable contribution he’s done to the architect community over the past couple years. 369 posts since May 2007 is something that counts !!! Next to that he has build a vibrant community that gathers in councils and networks in the architect forum that he’s been animating with top speakers and content. So THANK YOU Philippe !!!

The good news is that we have already identified a successor that will take over the architect outreach and take over this blog in the next couple of months. So I’d like to introduce Bart Vande Ghinste as next moderator of this blog and the Microsoft Belgium architect community. WELCOME Bart !!!

Luc Van de Velde
Director Developer & Platform group BeLux

CIO: Put Business Technology Maturity In 2010 Plan

2009-07-23T09:23:38Z

CIOs: Put Business Technology Leadership Maturity In Your 2010 Strategic Plan

Technology is business and we can't run our companies without it.

Business Technology (BT) is the largest single technology-management transition you will face over the next 5-10 years, as BT redefines IT’s operating model in your firm. BT is pervasive technology use, increasingly managed outside of IT's direct control. How does BT show itself? Employees, customers, and partners are bringing Web 2.0 and social computing technologies into business processes; business leaders are directly contracting for online solutions and business process outsourcing; and users are configuring their own business solutions, using ERP applications from vendors like SAP or IT-provided platforms built from technologies like business process modeling (BPM). Whether the business user is aware of the technology angle or not, IT’s traditional project-based plan-build-run approach to technology management can’t keep up with BT’s user-driven technology adoption.

How far has BT come at your firm? Forrester’s ongoing research and client interactions show that most firms have passed the tipping point — technology is business and we can’t run our companies without it. And the key issue for you as a CIO is, how much your business organizations are making decisions that directly drive technology — and how you are responding. Ask yourself the following:

“Are my business leaders buying services over the Net — to run direct-marketing campaigns, sales-force automation, or logistics route optimization? Or are they using blogs, wikis, and Facebook for business functions?”

“Am I waiting for these users to fail and to come running back to IT — or am I proactively enabling BT success — and, therefore, business success?”

With BT’s emergence, CIO attention to enabling BT success is growing, with CIOs making explicit plans for BT enablement in their annual strategic plans. Some are educating their firms on BT’s impact — on the business and on how the IT organization operates. Others are assessing their BT leadership maturity and pursuing new IT structures and processes which will help their firms take full advantage of the BT opportunities (see my report: “BT Changes IT’s Operating Model”).

Forrester provides you with a tool that can help you to understand BT’s impact on your organization — to assess your BT leadership maturity and to identify next steps to improve your ability to move forward. Forrester's BT Leadership Maturity Road Map examines technology leadership practices through a lens of five elements — strategy, process, structure, performance measurement, and culture — and identifies five maturity levels, each of which is ever more harmonized and blended with the work of the enterprise and its business network.

One size doesn’t fit all for how you should address BT Leadership in your organization. As with most maturity frameworks, Forrester’s BT Road Map helps you to assess your movement from ad hoc and chaotic BT activities, through the development of defined and repeatable BT processes, to the achievement of optimized and business-integrated BT leadership. Some organizations will focus on BT governance, driving changes in budgeting, funding, and prioritization. Others will integrate their management of IT demand, bringing together the project and services portfolios, tied to metrics and cost-based value realization, and tied to program and project management. Still others will look to shift IT’s culture from technology control to business enablement, establishing a business value point of view through transparency of IT’s activities in a business context.

Source: http://advice.cio.com/forrester_research/cios_put_business_technology_leadership_maturity_in_your_2010_strategic_plan

A live, mission critical, Silverlight 3 RIA at launch

2009-07-17T09:37:30Z

Continental Airlines Revolutionizes Their Call Center With Silverlight 3. This shows Silverlight’s maturity and that is has evolved from media engine to a full fledged application platform. Continental didn’t take the Silverlight seriously until v2. With v3 they are placing big bets. Out of browser deployment and web service connectivity tipped the scales.

Microsoft launched Expression and Silverlight 3 through an event at the Intercontinental Hotel in San Francisco on July 10th, 2009. Scott Guthrie delivered the keynote during which Continental Airlines showcased their call center based flight reservation solution built on Silverlight 3.

Continental Airlines stands out from its competition through a commitment to superior customer service and a forward-thinking approach to technology. When it came time to update its call center reservations system, Continental and its partner Infusion Development chose Microsoft® Silverlight™ to build the new reservations solution as a rich internet application.

The new system provides improved functionality and workflow for call center agents, which enables them to deliver better customer service and satisfaction. With the new solution, Continental saves money by consolidating servers and databases that currently sit in call centers around the world. By choosing Silverlight, the company also has reduced development and deployment time, simplified application management, and made it easy to integrate the new system with Continental’s existing Web services.

In Continental’s own worlds “Silverlight speeds our time to market, increases the return on our investment in existing services, and provides our agents with better functionality, which helps them better serve our customers.”

Aaron Hynes, Managing Director of E-Commerce Technology, Continental Airlines

While presenting at the keynote, Aaron mentioned that the Windows based EZR was created 10 years ago as a user experience enhancement over the then popular green screen terminals that required use of an arcane set of commands to get the business done. Windows and DCOM based EZR definitely saved the day at that time.

Per Aaron, the current EZR architecture constrains the agent from seeing all the right information in a given customer call context. For the past few years Continental has invested heavily in .NET powered web service capabilities which can be leveraged in presenting right information to satisfy all the customer service needs. Over that period of time, Continental call centers expanded to multiple international locations that included Continental owned and third party operated facilities. This kind of mix imposed a lot of deployment, networking and operational constraints that weighed heavily in deciding on the new platform.

Aaron went on to say that the Cross platform compatibility, RIA Services, out-of-browser deployment and familiar .NET and web service programming environment tipped the scale towards Silverlight when compared with other RIA technology platforms.

Survey Finds BPM Projects Lack Architecture

2009-07-16T09:42:28Z

Organizations embarking on business process management need to bring in IT architects earlier in the process, according to a report released last week.

Only 52 percent of organizations classified as leaders have enterprise architecture teams leading their BPM efforts, a Web survey of 135 enterprises, showed. Of those described as followers, only 31 percent had enterprise architects leading the efforts.

The report is particularly noteworthy in that the survey was designed by the International Association of Software Architects (IASA) in partnership with the IT research firm Macehiter Ward-Dutton. IASA is a highly regarded non profit organization in support of software architects with 6,000 members.

While not totally surprising, the findings give further evidence of a key barrier to successful BPM intiatives, according to MWD research director Neil Ward-Dutton, who authored the report. The bottom line is BPM projects often fail or hit roadblocks because they are initiated and kicked off by business leaders rather than enterprise architects, Ward-Dutton said.

"Almost all the time, architects get brought in relatively late in the day," Ward-Dutton said in an interview. "They retrospectively figure out what kind of technology the company just bought in and have to figure out how that going to integrate with what we’ve got and so on."

Yet in cases where architects do get involved earlier in BPM projects, they tend to go well, he said. "It’s really important for architects to be involved, not only from the technology perspective but looking at some of the business architecture perspectives," he said. "That means really looking at these processes that the BPM investment is going to try to prove and how those really fit into the broader picture of what the business is trying to do with IT."

The role of architects, he added, is particularly important because they help drive standards for integration and software development. "If you think about information, business objects, and services that are going to be used as common approaches to development and so on and so on, it’s really important for architects to be involved."

While it is important for business executives and CIOs to apply architecture, it is also incumbent on architects to step up and make their case, he said.

Source: http://adtmag.com/articles/2009/07/02/survey-finds-bpm-projects-lack-architecture.aspx

Windows Azure Official Pricings

2009-07-15T09:37:31Z

During the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2009 yesterday, we announced the business and partner model for the Windows Azure platform including service level agreements and support programs:

http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsazure/archive/2009/07/14/confirming-commercial-availability-and-announcing-business-model.aspx

Hybrid architecture based on SOA and ROA

2009-07-07T09:21:46Z

ARCast.TV - Implementing a Hybrid Architecture Based on SOA and ROA in the Enterprise

In this interview, Kevin Israel, Visual Studio Team System MVP, shares with Zhiming Xue his thoughts on implementation of a hybrid architecture based on SOA and ROA in the enterprise space. Kevin explains what Resource Oriented Architecture (ROA) is and, through examples, highlights its key differences from Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). He argues that while the two architectural patterns share the same common problem domains such as versioning and application manageability, they work differently in practice. ROA services or RESTful services may be used to bring resources to the user, whereas SOA services are typically created to process business logic. Therefore, the crux of the hybrid architecture implementation is to use them together and use them for their intended purposes. Kevin believes that as cloud computing and enterprise meshup applications start to emerge, more applications based on the hybrid architecture of SOA and ROA may be seen in the enterprise

Study Paris to improve your IT architecture

2009-07-03T16:13:20Z

The IT architecture of a typical company is an aging maze of applications, hardware, and networks that undermines rather than promotes corporate strategic goals. Senior IT managers should study another complicated set of systems—the infrastructure of a modern city—to learn how underlying principles and physical assets can unify an organization. Paris, with its wonderful variety of buildings from many centuries, seems particularly apt for this analogy.
Back in the 1850s, Napoleon III empowered the city planner Baron Haussmann to create a vast new infrastructure system, including sewers, bridges, parks, streets, and boulevards—the Paris of song and story. (His goals were not only to promote commerce and public health but also to widen the streets in hopes of preventing Parisians from erecting barricades and thus to prevent further revolutions of the kind that had brought him to power.) Since then, Paris has planned its redevelopment coherently, renovating old assets while replacing others and adding new ones. The city’s infrastructure unites them all, defining the cityscape and controlling its evolution.
Read this classic article to learn how the city-planning analogy can help companies use their IT architectures to compete more successfully.
August 2000
The Paris guide to IT architecture

The architect profession according to Forrester

2009-07-01T14:04:02Z

Forrester: Inquiry Spotlight: Developing Architects, Q2 2009

Abstract

Whether you're an architect yourself or you have architects reporting to you, you've probably wondered: What does it take to be an architect? We analyzed more than 60 inquiry questions from Forrester clients related to the topic of the architect's role and found that they fall into roughly three categories: defining the architect's skill set and job responsibilities, finding and hiring the right architects, and training and developing architects. We also saw a number of questions specifically about architecture certifications. The lack of standardized enterprise architecture (EA) roles across organizations is causing significant difficulty in identifying, hiring, and growing top-notch EA talent.

Figure 2: Forrester Divides Foundational Architect Skills Into Eight Categories

Figure 3: Forrester Identifies Four Stages Along An Architect's Growth Map

http://www.forrester.com/Research/Document/0,7211,54793,00.html

Bing vs. Google: do the test

2009-07-01T11:25:31Z

Ever since Bing’s launch, there’s been a lot of talk about which search engine is doing a better job. Can Bing compare to Google? Does it do a better job? Or does it do well with some queries and not others? If you’ve had trouble making up your mind about this, there’s a new site that can help you figure it all out. The site is called “Bing vs. Google,” and, like it sounds, it’s a comparison site that pits two sets of search results against each other. Like any other search engine, Bing vs. Google has a simple homepage with just a search box in the middle of the screen and a bit of text explaining what it’s all about. To use the site, all you have to do is enter in a query as usual and hit “search.”

The fun part, of course, is the search results page. Bing vs. Google shows the results in a split screen, bing on the left, Google on the right. Squashing the screens like this can lead to a bit overlapping text in some cases (see, for example, how the results overlap Google’s sponsored links in the image), but it’s still a good way to easily get side-by-side results.

Using the links at the top, you can change the layout of the page to a horizontal split, if you so desire, or you can switch off one engine entirely and show just the one set of results. Either way, if you were having trouble making up your mind (or just making the switch to a new default search provider!), Bing vs. Google can help you put things in perspective.

7 July release of the new .NET Services CTP

2009-07-01T10:58:56Z

On 7 July we will release the new .NET Services CTP. As part of this update, the workflow service will be (temporarily) removed.

Key Points

- The .NET Services and the .NET Services portal will be unavailable on 7 July between 9am and 3pm PST for maintenance

- The workflow service will be removed (replaced later on)

- Solutions that use the workflow service will need to be modified and associated workflow service data (such as workflow types and instances) will be deleted.

- Users’ queue and router data will not be saved and restored. Users will need to back up queue and router data locally and restore it, restarting applications and recreating queues and routers once the service is back up.

- The new SDK needs to be installed

Schedule

START: July 7, 2009, 9am PST

END: July 7, 2009, 3pm PST

Actions Required

- Queues and Routers data will NOT be persisted after the scheduled maintenance. Queues and routers will need to be backed up and restored. Use SDK samples such as the SimpleMessagesQueueSample consumer on how to retrieve and send messages to and from Queues

- Solutions that use the workflow service need to be modified to no longer use it

- Download and Install the .NET Services July 2009 SDK

- Read the release notes carefully for any breaking changes and known issues

- Visit the .NET Services Developer Center to access .NET Services forums, videos, blogs, documentations and more

All the above information is publicly available via this blog post. There will be another post nearer the update time where the new CTP features will be covered. Now for a bit more on the workflow decision...

Workflow Services Removal

The removal of the workflow service was announced in this blog post. However, I’d like to give you a bit more detail to help you in your interactions with customers.

.NET Services is part of the Azure Services Platform, Microsoft’s cloud platform, together with Windows Azure and SQL Services. It consists of three core pieces of functionality: a Service Bus, which enables message passing between cloud and on-premises applications across IT infrastructure such as firewalls and routers, an Access Control Service, which you to control who can access your on-premises and cloud-based applications using claims-based identities, and a Workflow Service, which allows you to run and manage workflows in the cloud. Naturally enough, the .NET Services Workflow Service has been built upon the current version of Windows Workflow Foundation, WF 3.5. This allows developers to reuse many of their existing workflows, hosting them in the cloud, taking advantage of a proven and shipping codebase, and utilizing a familiar set of tools in Visual Studio.

While this is a clear, well-thought-out plan for shipping the Workflow Service for November 2009 (PDC), we’ve taken the time to share our ideas and plans with literally hundreds of customers through Software Design Reviews, customer briefings and events, obtaining feedback on what we’re doing and making sure that we build the right thing for our customers. In the case of the Workflow Service, we’ve had one strong and consistent piece of feedback: that, based upon the experience with the VS2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 CTPs, the next version of WF is sufficiently (and improved) from WF 3.5 that, rather than build cloud-hosted WF 3.5-based workflows today and move them on to 4.0 later, customers would far rather wait until .NET Framework 4.0 ships and build their cloud-based workflows based upon that.

We have responded to this feedback by deciding to suspend development on the WF 3.5-based codebase and to work on WF 4.0 instead, withdrawing the Workflow Service from the July CTP with the aim of reinstating it at a later date using the 4.0 workflow engine and tools. So far, everyone we’ve spoken to about this agrees that it is the right thing to do. Furthermore, customers are happy that we have listened to their feedback and are acting on it. However, we need to be clear about what we’re doing and why, to avoid any customer confusion or misunderstanding – hence this blog post. Finally, although no one has objected to this change there can be exceptions. If you happen to know of such a case please let us know the details. We will be happy to follow up on those concerns

P&P : Acceptance Test Engineering Guide

2009-07-01T10:52:09Z

Microsoft patterns & practices is excited to announce the latest addition to the p&p library of software engineering guidance:

Quick Links

– Codeplex site: http://codeplex.com/TestingGuidance

Common Scenarios

– How to Plan for Acceptance Testing

– What Kinds of Acceptance Tests to Run

– How to Create and Run Acceptance Tests

– Defining What “Done” Means

– How to Justify Your Approach

– How to Streamline Your Acceptance Process

Contents of at a Glance

PART I – THINKING ABOUT ACCEPTANCE explains six mental models that are useful when thinking about the acceptance process.

Chapter 1 The Acceptance Process

Chapter 2 Decision-Making Model

Chapter 3 Project Context Model

Chapter 4 System Requirements Model

Chapter 5 Risk Model

Chapter 6 Doneness Model

PARTII – PERSPECTIVES ON ACCEPTANCE describes the acceptance process from the perspectives of key stakeholders in two different kinds of organizations: the Information Technology Department in a business and the Product Development Company. Most readers involved in the acceptance process should find some commonality with at least one of the roles describes.

Chapter 7 Business Lead’s Perspective

Chapter 8 Product Manager’s Perspective

Chapter 9 Test Manager’s Perspective

Chapter 10 Development Manager’s Perspective

Chapter 11 User Experience Specialist’s Perspective

Chapter 12 Operations Manager’s Perspective

Chapter 13 Solution Architect’s Perspective

Chapter 14 Enterprise Architect’s Perspective

Chapter 15 Legal Perspective

PARTIII – ACCEPTING SOFTWARE introduces the practices that are necessary for planning the acceptance process, for performing acceptance testing and for improving the acceptance process.

Chapter 16 Planning for Acceptance

Chapter 17 Assessing Software

Chapter 18 Managing the Acceptance Process

Chapter 19 Streamlining the Acceptance Process

Windows Azure, A conversation with David Chappell

2009-06-30T13:02:51Z

ARCast.TV - Windows Azure, A conversation with David Chappell

What's the latest on Windows Azure and Microsoft's cloud platform? David Chappell discusses his perspective on this fast-changing area with Bob Familiar.