October 2008 - Posts
I ran into a friend today and, as friends often do, we let our conversation wander over the different "broken things" in IT in general (and a few in Microsoft in specific). One thing that I'd like to share from that conversation: a truly
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I've seen various taxonomies of requirements. Like all taxonomies, any set of requirement types exists to classify or partition requirements into coherent groups for further analysis. Most break down the list of requirements into things reminiscent
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My friends in the Agile community have succeeded in drilling a concept into my thick skull so deeply that the concept shows up in other things I do. What is that concept: don't try to build the perfect app. Build the least complicated app
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The (ISO Standard) RM-ODP model is a powerful and well reasoned mechanism for creating Architectural descriptions ("architectures"). Leveraging the IEEE-1471 taxonomy , and building out a visual style and standardized approach, there is tremendous value
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Todd Biske, whom I respect for his writings on SOA, seemed to miss the mark in his recent blog post about SOA Governance and Decision Rights. In that post, he said: if you focus on education, you can allow individual teams to make decisions, because
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Imagine a time when building architecture meant "sketches" that would vary from one architect to another, one type of building to another. It must have been quite difficult for the skilled tradesmen to build anything more than individual
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