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I got my monthly issue of HBR this weekend and was really pleased to see the article "The Next Revolution in Productivity" by Ric Merrifield, Jack Calhoun and Dennis Stevens. For those of you who've followed my posts on Business Architecture and Capabilities
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** = Update The Microsoft Services Business Architecture (MSBA) methodology was formerly codenamed Microsoft Motion. I will continually add to this list over time! ** Getting Hold of MSBA Many people have asked me how they can get hold of the tools and
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The reality of distributed systems development today is the complexity that eventually if not immediately bogs it down. Instead of being fun, exciting and easy to develop, distributed systems are often hard and unwieldy to design and work with. We continue
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In my previous post I examined the business transaction pattern is some detail and made the case for using the pattern to much better implement a capability as a service (capsule). In this post I will develop the connection between the three part model
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ARC01-IS Capability Mapping: A Foundation for Service-Oriented Architecture Next week I'll be in Barcelona at TechEd: Developer to present the same interactive session I did at TechEd US 2007. Please join me and come over to say hello - I very much look
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In my previous post I looked at the communication patterns supporting the mutual interactions and coordination between services. Here we'll take a brief tour of the DEMO methodology [RD99] which, as we heard previously, builds upon Searle’s Language/Action
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The Microsoft Services Business Architecture (MSBA) methodology was formerly codenamed Microsoft Motion. I will continually add to this list over time! MSBA / Motion Overview Ric Merrifield (2006), " Business in Motion, Parts 1 & 2 ", ARCast Interview
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Capability Mapping: A Foundation for Service-Oriented Architecture (ARC09-TLC) Service-Oriented Architecture is a very interesting concept to many, but until it is clearly linked to business needs its rate of adoption is likely to be slow. This challenge
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Originally Created: 2005-06-27 I was reading this nice white paper on SQL Service Broker by Roger Wolter and drew a doodle as I was digesting the very interesting information given in it. I though you might find it useful: What's really cool is that all
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Originally Created: 2005-06-12 Beat Schwegler , Architect on my team, informs us the latest version of his Web Service Competency Workshop can be download from here . There's ~20MB of slides and demos and in my opinion is the best set of coherent content
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Originally Created: 2005-05-14 I'm not a UI design guru but I can surely recognize a good thing when I see it! Whether you're an architect or developer the CAB from MS patterns & practices will certainly interest you. To quote from Eugenio Pace's
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Originally Created: 2005-04-25 Last Thursday was fun! Ron Jacobs (Product Marketing Manager in the PAG Team) was over in UK giving a presentation on EntLib as part of the ongoing UK Architect Forum series of events. Clemens Vasters was also in UK doing
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Originally Created: 2004-09-14 Wow, I've been AWOL for far too long! Two reasons: a) It was a long and busy summer period for me which I spent worrying about how to make the next year of work as fun as the last one has been, and b) I turned off my blog
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Originally Created: 2004-07-27 I just had to alert you to a recording of The Nerd, The Suit, and the Fortune Teller which was amongst the finest sessions of the Architecture track at TechEd Europe 2004. As the track owner, I can't say I was overly confident
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