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Tuesday, August 04, 2009 9:44 AM

Business Software Platforms are not Strategic

I want to share an idea that occurred to me and some of my colleagues, Dave Langer in particular, that was triggered during the work in building our business system architecture to enable our S+S corporate strategy, which is that reusable Business Software
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Monday, March 02, 2009 7:30 PM

Inappropriately comparing Building Architecture and Software Architecture

Mike Walker wrote a great little article describing that it is largely inappropriate to compare Software Architecture and Building Architecture professions - see here . I think Mike has a great point that the two types of architecture disciplines are
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Saturday, January 17, 2009 3:18 PM

Enterprise Solution Architects and Leadership

I strongly believe that Leadership is a critical competency for successful Enterprise Solution Architects . To some, that statement may seem bold. To others, its obvious. for those that this seems bold, I hope this blog post helps explain why Enterprise
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Saturday, August 02, 2008 4:36 PM

Achieving Model Traceability: Finding the Traceability Critical Path

We all agree now that Adoption is key for Enterprise Architects . And the trick to adoption is resonating with those that make change and influence them to make the change that is best for the enterprise. In a previous blog post, I introduced the Solution
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Saturday, June 28, 2008 3:02 PM

Valuing the Undervalued Solution Model

Modeling helps improve the success of delivering a high-quality solution A primary responsibility of a Solution Architect is the integrity of a given project’s software solution. There are many aspects to a solution’s integrity such as System Quality
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Friday, June 06, 2008 8:45 AM

Tips for gaining adoption

I began writing a quick response to Erik’s question in this blog about Architect’s high-order bit is Adoption . Erik asked the question how to get people to adopt ideas and before I knew it I was over a page in my response because it was a lot of fun
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008 12:01 AM

SaaS Service Offerings redefine what's in a product

As I continue my work on my little nook of Microsoft's S+S business strategy, the team I work with has noticed something peculiar about what exactly a Service Offering really is. Because we know the packaged software business so well, we sometimes overlook
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Sunday, November 18, 2007 12:44 PM

Customer 2.0 is here and she has a major impact on business models and system architecture

One of the major tasks on my plate is understanding the impact of business systems to support the explosion of Software as a service business offerings, such as Exchange Hosted Services, Windows Live offerings and Microsoft Dynamics CRM Live. These business
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Tuesday, October 09, 2007 9:41 AM

SWABOK, Archipedia, Uber Architecture Framework, xyz?

Nick Malik wrote blog post " The culture of art vs. the culture of engineering " that described the problem of architects and developers being caught up in invention rather than reusing software system definitions and concepts. I wholeheartedly agree
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Friday, September 28, 2007 5:15 PM

Service Delivery Platform (SDP) for the Enterprise

I'm noticing a lot of great improvements in Enterprise Architecture Frameworks, namely FEAF, TOGAF, Gartner EAF and ITIL (Yes, I see ITIL as an EAF now). They are embracing similar improvement themes like Business Strategy linkage, enabling agile business
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Wednesday, September 26, 2007 11:21 AM

Adoption, rather than Architecture, is the high order bit for Architects

Over the years I've noticed a strange phenomenon, sometimes the most logical decision isn't the decision made. Have you ever witnessed an unbelievably strong argument to build system infrastructure with all the right scientifically backed architecture
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Thursday, September 06, 2007 6:59 PM

The formula for Agility

Months ago I published a blog about how to implement system quality attributes ( found here ). In that article I asserted that Solution Architects should deliberately design systems for high quality and I provided a means for doing this. Because the point
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Sunday, September 02, 2007 9:18 AM

Enterprise Architect vs Solution Architect

What exactly is an Enterprise Architect versus a Solution Architect? I'd like to chat about the difference because I'm not confident everyone understands this well. It's actually quite simple. I propose that a Solution Architect is a project team role
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Friday, August 31, 2007 1:54 PM

Skills from different experiences - Well rounded is King

I currently sit in Microsoft IT and get to share experiences and learn with some of the most interesting folks in the world. My role encourages me to generate good ideas for the company and work with others through natural alignment to build great products
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Wednesday, August 29, 2007 9:39 PM

How SaaS, S+S impact an Enterprise Architect

Mike Walker wrote a great thought-provoking blog post on the implications SaaS has on Enterprise Architecture . Although he noted some very interesting points, I thought I’d extend this a bit and describe the impact of my life as it pertains to SaaS because
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