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Aspiring Architect Series - 2008

makif — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:40:00 GMT

About: This blog post is about the upcoming Aspiring Architect Series

Greetings,

Based on suggestions I received from my blog readers, I have organized the next part of the architect series and have lined up a great set of speakers. Please share the links with your peers, I hope that you will find it to be useful investment of your time

Aspiring Architect Series 2008

Last year we held a Web Cast series for aspiring architects that was attended by over 1200 individuals and covered a number of strategies that can help developers and IT professionals to transition to the architect roles. 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 the 2007 series which can be found at http://blogs.msdn.com/mohammadakif/archive/tags/Aspiring+Architects/default.aspx . We are hopeful that you will find the upcoming series to be a very useful investment of your time.

June 16^th, 2008 – 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. – Introduction to the aspiring architect Web Cast series

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032380836&Culture=en-CA

June 17^th, 2008 – 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. – Services Oriented Architecture and Enterprise Service Bus – Beyond the hype

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032380838&Culture=en-CA

June 18^th, 2008 – 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. – TOGAF and Zachman, a real-world perspective

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032380840&Culture=en-CA

June 19^th, 2008 – 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. – Services Oriented Architecture (Web Cast in French)

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032380842&Culture=en-CA

June 20^th, 2008 – 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. – Interoperability (Web Cast in French)

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032380844&Culture=fr-CA

June 23^rd , 2008 – 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. – Realizing dynamic systems

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032380846&Culture=en-CA

June 24^th, 2008 – 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. – Web 2.0, beyond the hype

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032380848&Culture=en-CA

June 25^th, 2008 – 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. – Architecting for the user experience

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032380850&Culture=en-CA

June 26^th, 2008 – 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. – Conclusion and next steps

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032380852&Culture=en-CA

Best regards,

Mohammad

Visual Studio 2008 and Windows Server 2008 - Free Training

makif — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:08:00 GMT

About: This blog post is about the training on Visual Studio 2008 and Windows Server 2008 on Feb 11, in Mississuaga

Greetings,

We will be conducting training on Visual Studio 2008 and Windows Server 2008 on Feb 11, 2008 in Microsoft's Mississuaga campus for architects and aspiring architects. It is a great opportunity to get ahead of your peers, get free books and materials on these technologies and learn how they can help you be more successfull

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032364802&Culture=en-CA

Best regards,

Mohammad

"Transitioning to an architect role", recording and resource links

makif — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 22:58:00 GMT

About: This post contains the recording and resource links for the fourth and last part of the aspiring architect series

Hello,

The recording and resource links for the web cast are as follows:

1. Recording: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032338981&Culture=en-CA

2. Architect Journal (Free Subscription) : http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/arcjournal/default.aspx

3. Book : Software Architecture in Practice by Len Bass, Paul Clements and Rick Kazman

4. Academic, Carnegie Mellon University: http://www.sei.cmu.edu/architecture/index.html

I will provide more information about architectural training that Microsoft plans to organize online and otherwise in the coming weeks, stay tuned.

Best regards,

Mohammad

Best regards,

Mohammad

"Service orientation and other architectural approaches", recording and resource links

makif — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 16:35:00 GMT

About: This blog post contains recording and resource links for the third Web Cast in the aspiring architect series that was conducted by David Remmer

Hello,

The links for recording and resources for third Web Cast in the aspiring architect series is as follows:

Recording link:

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032338979&Culture=en-CA

Resources

MSDN SOA : http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-ca/architecture/aa948857.aspx
Thomas Erl Books: http://www.soabooks.com/
Ontology and Taxonomy of Services Article in the Architecture Journal: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/arcjournal/bb491121.aspx

The last part of series will be conducted on Thursday, June 14 2007

Best regards,

Mohammad

'Software development lifecycle and methodologies' recording and resource link

makif — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 05:32:00 GMT

About: This post contains the resources for the second part of the web cast series focused at aspiring architects

Hello,

David Remmer conducted the second part of the Web Cast series in which he covered a number of SDLC methodologies and approches including Waterfall, RUP, Agile (SCRUM, MSF) and SDLC tools. You can find the recording of the web cast at

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032338975&Culture=en-CA

You can also find additional sources at

Agile Development : http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/architecture/bb404166.aspx
Cruise Control (.NET) : http://confluence.public.thoughtworks.org/display/ccnet/welcome%20to%20cruisecontrol.net
Agile Journal : http://www.agilejournal.com/

Stay tuned for the next two parts of the series.

Best regards,

Mohammad

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032338975&Culture=en-CA

Architecture 101 - Recording and resource links

makif — Fri, 25 May 2007 18:24:00 GMT

About: This blog post provides links to the articles and frameworks I referenced during my architecture 101 Web Cast yesterday

Greetings,

Thank you for attending the web cast, it was one of the largest Web Cast we have ever conducted and it was a real pleasure to interact with a lot of you yesterday (we had 45 minutes of Q&A after a 1 hour Web Cast!) . The recording and links for the web cast are as follows:

1. Recording of the Web Cast

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032338972&Culture=en-CA

2. Article- Characteristics of an effective enterprise architect

http://www.itworldcanada.com/Pages/Docbase/ViewArticle.aspx?ID=idgml-3e21a390-4090-42f5-9279-23970f2ec7fe&Portal=1fa35bf9-d296-4571-8fff-c665a851ec1d&ParaStart=15&ParaEnd=30&direction=prev&Previous=Previous

3. Architectural Frameworks (As I mentioned during my Web Cast you do NOT need to be an expert in them)

a. Zachman Framework - http://www.zifa.com/ (go to the link for framework overview)

b. TOGAF - http://www.opengroup.org/togaf/

c. DODAF - http://www.defenselink.mil/cio-nii/docs/DoDAF_Volume_I.pdf

d. MODAF - http://www.modaf.org.uk/

e. FEAF - http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/egov/a-1-fea.html

4. Swing set photos describing the breakdown in setting expectations and gathering requirements

http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=80500328&size=o

This is a preliminary list of resources that only covers the material covered in part one of the web cast, I will continue to post resources including links to books, articles, certification program and others as we cover those in the web cast.

Best regards,

Mohammad

How to become an architect?

makif — Wed, 23 May 2007 16:46:00 GMT

About: This post is about the aspiring architect web cast series starting tomorow

Greetings,

Just wanted to remind everyone that the (technology-agnostic) web cast series focused on aspiring architects is starting tomorow.

https://blogs.msdn.com/mohammadakif/archive/2007/04/25/webcast-series-for-aspiring-architects.aspx

Please point those in your organization that might be interested in the topic to the link above for registration. I will also post a detailed set of resources for aspiring architects next week.

For everyone that has been asking for blog posts on Web 2.0, I promise that a five part series will be posted in June so stay tuned and thank you for your patience :-)

Best regards,

Mohammad

Web Cast Series for Aspiring Architects

makif — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:07:00 GMT

About: This blog post answers the FAQs I have received about this series

Hello,

I am pleasently surprised by the interest the upcoming aspiring architect series. The most common question I have received is about the technologies we plan to cover and whether it would be useful for people who are not working in MS technologies. The answer is absolutely yes, the series is completely and totally technology-agnostic; it is about how you move from being a developer to an architect and not about Vista, .NET or any other technology, everything that we talk about will be equally applicable to those spending their days (and nights) programming in Java and other technologies.

Best regards,

Mohammad

Webcast series for aspiring architects

makif — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 20:26:00 GMT

About: This blog post is about a series of Web Cast that we will conduct for those who want to become architects and/or be recognized as architects in their organizations.

Hello,

Based on popular demand, we have put together a series of technology-agnostic Web Casts focused on those that want to become architects. The detaisl of the various sessions are as follows:

Architecture 101 (Mohammad, May 24)

http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/eventdetail.aspx?EventID=1032338971&culture=en-CA

Architecture is the balance between art and engineering, it requires a certain mindset and approach to solving problems. Architects often function as a bridge between the business users and development groups and are increasingly being recognized as a critical community within organizations. Becoming an Architect can often translate in to an elevated status from a career stage perspective but it is hard to find prescriptive guidance around how to become an architect. Join Mohammad Akif for the first of a four part series focused on aspiring architects. During the Architecture 101 session we will discuss some key ideas around Architecture and define attributes of an architect.

Software development lifecycle and methodologies (Dave, May 31)

http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/eventdetail.aspx?EventID=1032338974&culture=en-CA

Over the years the various approaches teams have used to develop software have evolved. Join Dave Remmer in the second of a series focused on aspiring architects where we will discuss the various stages projects go through and sample some of the methodologies used by teams developing software. In this session we will compare and contrast the waterfall, agile, RUP, Scrum and MSF methodologies and how they are used within software projects.

Services orientation and other architectural paradigms (Dave, June 7)

http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/eventdetail.aspx?EventID=1032338978&culture=en-CA

One of the hottest topics in software architecture is the services oriented approach to building solutions and how this can provide agility, flexibility and reuse. Join Dave Remmer in the third of a series focused on aspiring architects where we will be looking at approaches to architecting software. This session will give an overall description of service orientation and how it differs from object oriented and component based architectures as well as a discussion of some of the organizational challenges teams experience when using a services oriented architecture.

Transitioning from a developer to an architect (Mohammad, June 14)

http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/eventdetail.aspx?EventID=1032338980&culture=en-CA

Are you a developer who would like to learn more about becoming an architect? Or how to get formally recognized as one (since you already wear the design and architecture hat along with the developer one)?. Join Mohammad Akif for the fourth and last part of the series focused on aspiring architects, during this session we will discuss how you can attain the skill set required to be an architect and sell yourself as an architect within your organization and industry. We will also provide a list of resources that you can use to continue the transition from a developer to an architect role.

best regards,

Mohammad