Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
I am currently in the process of starting my thesis work. With my background in software engineering and software process improvement (SPI), I am aware of how crucially important configuration management is. When working one or more people on a source …
Some of the most ominous words I hear from development teams.I will illustrate this with a rather contrived example – but one that I hope makes the point easily. No I am not advocating the writing of yet another date handler, but the problem is neatly …
In the last couple of days a few related ideas came floating by. It started when Madame was bemoaning behavior in her profession (she is a University lecturer). Then I got to thinking about Open Source – at the behest of a customer. This led down the p…
I have written about this before, I suspect. So forgive me if this is another representation of that resource.Hanging out with Nigel Green and John Schlesinger is dangerous, so be warned. There be sacred cows being slaughtered in this post.It all start…
Recent tweets from @rsessions, @richardveryard, @j4ngis,@cybersal have been looking at how hard various professions are. @richardveryard’s observation that “@j4ngis @oscarberg Rocket science isn’t even particularly complicated. Goes up, comes down. It …
The appearance of the SOA Manifesto has led me to look closely to the naming of projects and the implications of such names.Time and time again I see projects titled or described with a technology or architecture in the name. How often do we hear, “The…
There seems to be a theme developing in these posts. I start to see everyday situations and then relate them to everyday happenings – then attempt to do some analysis. Today’s is no exception.Ward Cunningham introduced us to the concept of technical de…
For those who have seen the previous post on process improvement at my local Indian chaat restaurant will probably be intrigued on yesterday’s twist.We were buying some appetizers to go. In this case 2 samosas and an order of golgappe. Normally the pr…
This posting is sparked by a conversation between Nigel Green and me. We were having a spirited discussion about choices in following people in Twitter. But the concept generally applies in almost all event based architectures.The fundamental principle…
The thought behind this post comes from the rich pageant of daily life with Madame. Yesterday morning we were discussing when she should visit her mother (a sprightly 96 year old who lives about 1,000 miles from us). So it was a matter of looking for d…
In an previous post, I wrote about the difference between the application of technology to the building of products, vs the application of technology in running the business. They are pretty different animals, if nothing else because of the way they a…
I am collecting humerous terms for different kinds of integration. I will seed the discussion with a few, but would be interested in having others added, with descriptions in the comments to this posts. It would be delightful to have a large glossary o…