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SOA, prioritise the the “SO”, rather than the “A”
You may have recently read SOA’s obituary as presented by Anne Thomas. I read and identified with many of the points presented. I wanted to pick up on one point: “SOA” requires redesign of the application portfolio As Cloud Computing becomes real I see Read More...
PDC - Picks from "watching it live"
http://channel9.msdn.com/Media/Videos/ C9 Bytes: Don and Chris explain Oslo in 5 minutes   The future of C# http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/TL16/ Blend - tips and tricks http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/PC47/ Windows Azure: Architecting & Managing Read More...
EATK = Enterprise Architect Took Kit
Details on Mike Walkers EATK can be found here http://blogs.msdn.com/mikewalker/archive/2008/07/07/the-enterprise-architecture-toolkit.aspx His Powerpoint from the SAF is here: http://www.slideshare.net/mikejwalker/enterprise-architecture-toolkit-english?src=embed Read More...
Aspiring Architect Series 2008
Looks like some great events arranged by our DPE team. "The Aspiring Architect Series 2008 builds on last year’s content and covers a number of topics that are important for architects to understand. Please make sure that you have gone through Read More...
Thoughts on when to ESB
I haven't been wholly convinced by the whole ESB motivation. Andy Reay, colleague and Microsoft Architect, wrote to me recently in response. I really liked his reply so I quote it here with his permission I see corporate wanting the following capabilities Read More...
enterprise 2.0
Following a read of Microsoft SharePoint goes wild for wikis I wondered how prolific this term is. Wikipedia has a entry for example. The Enterprise 2.0 term derives from Web 2.0 and is sometimes used to cover the introduction and implementation of social Read More...
Defining a basic Development Architecture
What’s in a development architecture? I've had this posed at several customers where no set practices are evident. More often than not an organic development process is adhered to. Regardless of SDLC methodology a development architecture I propose will Read More...
Technology Forecasting - a new .Net?
I am doing some research for my marketing course and more specifically I'm looking at forecasting. This reminded me of a conversation I had last week with Juval Lowy of IDesign. He posed the idea that COM was circa 1993 and was replaced in 2001-an 8 year Read More...
Realising Business Benefit with Service Orientation
I have been thinking about Services and how Services can have tangible business benefits. First of all I began by thinking about project milestones and a specific realisable business benefit per milestone. The following benefits came to mind: Improved Read More...
Enterprise Architecture as Strategy, Book Review
Introduction I always thought Enterprise Architecture was an oxymoron. All I needed to do was find a book that described in words, rather than my pastel pictures, this fact I'd invented. This book doesn't endorse my theory but it does suggest, like me, Read More...
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