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Mapping Current State Architectures across the Enterprise
All the time I get the questions about how to do current state architecture or “as-is” architecture at executive briefings (EBC), at events or through our customers. Recently I was asked about this in regards to an effort a large enterprise that is undergoing Read More...
The Nemesis of Software Architecture
I had an interesting conversation with a friend of mine that resulted in some disagreements on root issues architects face. The topic of the Architect Nemesis came up. Where some of assertions were accurate it was still founded on a fundamental belief Read More...
Massive P&P Compile of Resources for Architects
As some of you may know I aided with the Application Architecture Guide 2.0 materials which will soon be a blue book this upcoming year. J.D. Meier who was the brains and the mass orchestrator of the guide has put together a great compile of his works Read More...
Pragmatic Approach to Describing Solution Architectures
I just published a new article on the Microsoft Enterprise Architecture Center entitled, A Pragmatic Approach to Describing Solution Architectures . In this article, we will explore how architectures traditionally have been designed and described. By Read More...
The Enterprise Architecture Center of Excellence (EACOE)
There is a lot of EA events happening in the next few weeks. The Open Group is having an event that looks to be the most significant in years. They are launching two other practitioner conferences in conjunction with the architecture practitioner conference. Read More...
Just Released: Acceptance Test Engineering Guide
Microsoft patterns & practices announced today the latest addition to the p&p library of software architecture guidance: Acceptance Test Engineering Guide (BETA 1)   Quick Links – Codeplex site: http://codeplex.com/TestingGuidance – Read More...
Interview with GM for the Microsoft Cloud Services Data Center
This is a great web cast for all those infrastructure architects out there wondering what happens behind the scenes in gigantic data centers at Microsoft. These are the same data centers that surface all of the Microsoft Software + Services (S+S) and Read More...
The Numbers Behind Organizational Change
In a fairly recent whitepaper from IBM, global services did a worldwide survey across various roles to see how difficult it is to change an organizations behavior.  The article shows some solid numbers around the friction that exists when trying Read More...
IEEE on Software Architecture Podcast
There is a new architecture podcast out from IEEE that will be hosted by Grady Booch. If you do not know Grady he is recognized internationally as an industry luminary  for his innovative work on software architecture, software engineering, and modeling. Read More...
Microsoft Patterns and Practices Application Architecture Guide
I ran across an interesting post on J.D. Meier's Blog that describes the Patterns & Practices project called the Application Architecture Guide Project 2.0 . Hosted on CodePlex.com this project aims to take guidance from Microsoft and marry it with Read More...
What is an Architecture Style?
Recently, I have had discussions with folks at Microsoft about Architecture Styles. This term has been used in the IT industry for a very long time. I think the earliest reference was in the early 80's. But that is neither here, nor there in my opinion. Read More...
US Law Makers to Regulate the Cloud?
Infoworld just published a great piece called Cloud computing may draw government action . The article goes into data privacy concerns with the cloud. They state that Cloud computing will soon become an area of hot debate in Washington, D.C., with policy Read More...
Oslo - a tool, a language, a repository
Douglas Purdy puts it best in his What is Oslo? post a few days ago, Oslo is a tool, a language and a repository. You are still probably scratching your head thinking, well what is it really? Well, the guys over in the connected systems division isn't Read More...
Architecture On-Demand Web Cast Series
The Microsoft Consulting Services Infrastructure Architects have setup a new blog that walks through and announces upcoming web casts from their team. You can find the site at: http://blogs.technet.com/mcstalks/ In there words the site is set out to accomplish: Read More...
Microsoft Strategic Architect Forum 2008
For those interested, the 2008 Microsoft Strategic Architect Forum (SAF) will happen again this year. Each year my team organizes this conference so that top architects from around the world can get together to collaborate on key challenges in the industry. Read More...
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