February 2008 - Posts
I work deep in the heart of Microsoft, and I make no secret of it: I like open source. I won't start some great debate about OSS, or the traditional opposition of my employer to OSS. I support my company, and I want the stock price to go up, but I do
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Does anyone ever ask you to justify what you do? I've worked in most roles in technical development and management. Only in Enterprise Architecture do I get that question. So I'm posing an open question to the EA community: how do you demonstrate value?
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I started an interesting thread when I weighed in on the use of IoC and the Dependency Injection pattern a few days back. Seems I wasn't sufficiently supportive of the concept of lightweight containers to please some of my readers. Should we, the blog
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I love the Mythbusters. Not just because I like to watch them blow stuff up. (I do), More importantly... infinitely more importantly... because those two goofy guys are teaching my son to love science, engineering, and experimentation. Yes, the clips
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You have probably heard of the Iron Triangle of project management (Cost, Scope, and Time). Did you know that Enterprise Architecture has it's own iron triangle? It does, and understanding the EA triangle is a great way to understand and describe the
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Recently, I caught wind of a discussion about use or overuse of Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection. One small team was quite religious about using it, while another was, let's say, a bit more circumspect. It made me think about where I would
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Nilesh starts blogging, and his first post is of such high quality that I have to rave about it here. Nilesh Bhide, a trusted colleague of mine and a terrific architect, brings forth a tidbit of information too often overlooked: we can learn a great deal
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I've been on a roll lately, calling for the creating of a standardized approach to the partitioning of Line-of-Business apps . One reader commented that we are a long way from "plug and play" integration. The real answer is more subtle than that. Not
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