November 2004 - Posts

• Making Enterprise Architecture real; Step 5 treasures from our information safari

  Back from our information safari, its time to munge (that’s a technical term) through the end-users naratives(stories), legacy systems information (relics), and our own notes (journals) collected along the way in hopes of piecing the truth together. Not Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 24, 2004 12:35 PM by Stcohen | 1 Comments Filed under: Architecture

• Making Enterprise Architecture real; Step 4 Seeking domain understanding

  In Step 3, I touched on how legacy choices might significantly impact the design of enterprise components. Now we need to incorporate the broader needs of the business into our design which will likely reverse some of the simplifications applied in the Read More... Posted Monday, November 22, 2004 9:41 PM by Stcohen | 3 Comments Filed under: Architecture

• Making Enterprise Architecture real; Step 3 selecting abstract & domain components

  Selecting the right mix of abstract and domain components is crucial to achieving an appropriate balance between investment and return. Many a project has fallen into the tar pits of extreme analysis and overly complex inheritance hierarchies. It may Read More... Posted Sunday, November 14, 2004 7:53 PM by Stcohen | 5 Comments Filed under: Architecture

• Making Enterprise Architecture real; Step 2 separating domain from plumbing components

  Enterprise architects are responsible for providing simple, effective, enterprise worthy, domain components to the application developers. So what makes a good domain component? It must provide quantifiable BUSINESS value over time . This may be the result Read More... Posted Sunday, November 07, 2004 12:05 PM by Stcohen | 2 Comments Filed under: Architecture

• Making Enterprise Architecture real ; Step 1- who owns what

  Application development code is too focused and too volatile to be promoted across the enterprise, and enterprise code is too generic and too hard to change for it to precisely address application needs. Coming to an agreement on these ownership / boundaries Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 02, 2004 11:17 PM by Stcohen | 2 Comments Filed under: Architecture

• Can an application really be simple AND comply with an Enterprise Architecture?

  High quality applications are simple. They do some one thing well. The classic example is the famous Hello World app. It simple displays the text back to the caller. While there are vast language dependant permutations lets follow our own advice, keep Read More... Posted Monday, November 01, 2004 1:39 PM by Stcohen | 9 Comments Filed under: Architecture