October 2007 - Posts
This is third in a series on the impact of the business operating model on Service Oriented Architecture. (see overview ) What can you get from this series? My prior post raised a bit of ire with one of my readers, a fellow whom I respect. He felt that
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This is second in a series on the impact of the business operating model on Service Oriented Architecture. (see overview ) Quick note about the CISR models Before I go into a lot of detail about the operating models, I want to make one thing clear: The
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I'm begining a new series on Integration. Five parts. Clear up some of the noise on SOA. This series will refer to the set of four Operating Models described in the excellent book, "Enterprise Architecture as Strategy" from the great minds at MIT's Center
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As I am called upon, more and more, to present a clear "vision" for how SOA will occur, I realize that folks are using the same words for two completely different requests. The trick is to provide both. The question may be phrased as "Where are we going
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Pete Lacey started an interesting discussion a few days ago when he reopened the debate over the use of the term "SOA" in his blog post " What is SOA ?". He certainly dove in to attack the idea of SOA, but did not come to any useful conclusions. He starts
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You know what seperates an artist from an engineer? Let's say Joe designs something pretty cool. Mary sees it and uses that design. In Engineering, Mary is wise. In Art, Mary is a thief. For years, in many IT shops, and throughout the computing world,
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Joe was in a good mood when he walked into the meeting with his Process Management leads for the first time. Perhaps is was because Selina had just walked him through a consistent process for tracking and managing project information that didn't keep
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Selina Colander is up in Joe's face. Joe Freeflier, the new IT manager for the Sales, Marketing, and Public Relations IT group, called an all-day meeting for the project managers to attend a complete budget and timeline review for all in-flight projects.
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