September 2007 - Posts
Joe Freeflier is not a lucky man. He's been promoted. Oh, he wanted the promotion. He asked for the promotion, but it is a lateral move, and he had no idea of the difference between his old job and this new, unfamiliar role. When he came to work for the
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One of the current trends in IT is for CIOs to vie for the right to take over Business Process Management (BPM) for the organization. This means more than providing BPM tools and linking those tools to the SOA infrastructure... this means having the people
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Once again, I'd like to return to the economic model for SOA. This time with a comparison to other systems of payment. I will discuss tax supported, tax augmented, tax neutral, and tax antagonistic payment systems with respect to SOA. Long ago, in our
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In Physics, Momentum and Inertia are related. In the battle for mind-share, they are as well. If I have an idea, and I can demonstrate, in some small example, how useful that idea can be, then my idea will start to move people. I will say "we can succeed"
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There are still people who believe that Chargeback models work. For example, Mark Denne argued in CIO Magazine in January: "Chargeback is a way to put IT services in terms that businesspeople understand and value. When IT is bought and consumed like other
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Joe McKendrick brings up a very important point about "building SOA" in an organization where the developers have no idea of what SOA is for, and why it should be used. In his post, " How to ruin a SOA program and bankrupt IT ", he discusses the value
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Ask ten business people about "the billing process" in your company. Get specific. Diagram it out. You will get eleven answers. I had the opportunity today to 'approve' (e.g. "not veto") a very generic definition of 'business process.' It was something
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Ran across this post that asks "Why is Enterprise Architecture becoming the next big thing?" There's no really new content there... It's just fun to imagine that I've spent the past few years doing the 'next' thing. For once, I'm ahead of the game. ;-
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Found an interesting initiative called WSPER ("whisper") at http://www.wsper.org/ that aims to define a formal syntax for defining composable SOA applications. Reading the primer is a bit like an acid trip... lots of colors, not much meaning. Now, to
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As I've discussed many times, SOA is not a product. It is an architectural style. That said, products can help leverage and encourage SOA. Gartner expects there to be some pretty significant growth in these products over the next few years. There is no
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Quality is a skill. We need to teach it to our children, just as assuredly as we teach responsibility, compassion, and honor. At work, we need to both embody it in ourselves, and encourage it in those around us. I was a SDET for a while. That's Software
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Information Architects are an interesting crew. Take everything you know and love about a person who "thinks" in data, add layers of set theory that you haven't looked at since college, throw in a pinch of realism, a flair for idealism, and an ability
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Many of the SOA marketeers have grouped around the notion of SOA Governance. I have a bone to pick. For the sake of public discussion, let's pull apart "governance" into some buckets... and then attack one of those buckets. Bucket 1: EA Governance - This
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