December 2007 - Posts
It has been a long road towards the end of Netscape. Every worthy competitor deserves an honorable farewell. Now that Netscape has announced the end of support for the Netscape browser, as of February 1, 2008, it is time to sound the bugle and offer the
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I decided to take a few minutes of my vacation time to catch up on my reading, and I read through Mike Walker's article on MSDN on APM and EA . It is an interesting and useful article. (I'd give it a B-). One thing that I'd like to highlight in the practice
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I'm thinking about the business case for integration again... (still). We talk about SOA providing a benefit by being more agile. In other words, if you have a SOA infrastructure, you can change to meet the needs of the business in an agile way. Here's
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Sometimes, in a long struggle, a goal that was strategic one day, becomes unimportant later. This happens when some underlying assumption is challenged, when some previously secure resource becomes unavailable, or when the behavior of large groups of
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I have a SOA view of the software development lifecycle. And, in that SOA view, BPM fits nicely. First, a comparison: Waterfall looks like this: Waterfall: Plan --> Envision --> Design --> Develop & Test --> Deploy Agile: Plan --> Sprint
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One challenge that we run into: having a software developer design the business process. Now, that's no slam on software developers. There are some very smart cookies out there writing software... but if you want to develop a business process, you need
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How do we take EA governance from a "push" model to a "pull" model? In other words, how to we create a system where people want to do the same things that EA wants them to do, without calling it governance, and without the political battles that ensue?
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Like many corporations, Microsoft has many business units, and many IT groups. Enterprise Architecture has a lot to keep track of. The big win, for EA, is in helping to decide what projects are funded. Once a project is funded, the opportunities to guide,
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