July 2008 - Posts
I've been thinking a lot lately about the gap between "what we have" and "what we need" in the Enterprise SOA space. I think I have a need that is not yet filled by software. (that I'm aware of). I put up a post back in June about the difficulty in creating
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Not long ago, I was asked an interesting question about our Enterprise Architecture team. The question was "Does Microsoft provide the internal support to create an excellent Enterprise Architecture program?" The answer is "yes" but it got me thinking:
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This is the story of four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody. There was an important job to be done and Everybody was asked to do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that, because it was Everybody's
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A Use case is a cool thing. A little too cool. The term has been occasionally misused, and in some respects, that misuse diminishes the value of a use case. To succeed, we have to know what a use case is. When you are done
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Requirements elicitation is a critical, yet under-appreciated, activity. A core capability of business analysts, the ability to get the customers to describe what they want, and need, is both a science and an art. Requirements elicitation
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Building teamwork, at the enterprise level, is a tricky thing. As a project team comes together to solve a problem, hopefully you find yourself in the same position that I've found myself in many times: with smart experienced people, all motivated to
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Kind of a personal blog today. My wife just graduated from Lake Washington Technical College. Two years of studying and sacrifice and working her buns off, and she's now a newly minted personal trainer / fitness specialist. I guess I
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Apparently, I ticked off Bruce Silver . In case you haven't heard of the fellow, as I had not, Bruce is a consultant who makes his living providing training on BPM tools and his advice on BPM products. At least, that's the impression I got from reading
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Content comes from many places, including news sites, media companies, and individual contributors. In fact, as the Web 2.0 era becomes 'mainstream,' it is becoming common to see sites like MSNBC.com where a news story has room for responses, or CNN.Com
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In a prior post, I described a process modeling antipattern which I called " Blame the Computer ." The feedback helped me to realize that there's a deeper problem that we need to consider: alignment of ownership between process and IT. Ownership of a
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I like point out really nutty ideas, even when a lot of people have spent a lot of time investing in them. This one is about expectations. About 15-20 years ago, a great many companies starting investing in "Business Process Management"
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