New Papers from the OEA Practice

I wanted to make you aware of  several white papers recently authored by my colleagues here at Oracle. I hope you find them helpful in your own EA related activities.

Lessons Learned in Large Scale Transformations by Hamidou Dia.&nbsp…

Sins of the Project Manager

The current economic and employment environments notwithstanding, things still look pretty good for project managers. They are being kept on, and are still getting hired, because organizations are still ultra-cautious about spending money and getting critical projects completed as near…

Sins of the Project Manager

The current economic and employment environments notwithstanding, things still look pretty good for project managers. They are being kept on, and are still getting hired, because organizations are still ultra-cautious about spending money and getting critical projects completed as near…

Link Collection — February 12, 2012

  • It’s Time to Kill the Elephant | cloudeventprocessing.com

    Colin on the need to break free of batch based MapReduce: “All of these recent shifts from companies like Google, Yahoo, and others no longer see a competitive advantage in batch based MapReduce. The future has arrived, let’s look at some evidence…”

    tags: continuousquery mapreduce hadoop realtime

  • Suffering-oriented programming – thoughts from the red planet – thoughts from the red planet

    Excellent post / advice:

    “I follow a style of development that greatly reduces the risk of big projects like Storm. I call this style “suffering-oriented programming.” Suffering-oriented programming can be summarized like so: don’t build technology unless you feel the pain of not having it. It applies to the big, architectural decisions as well as the smaller everyday programming decisions. Suffering-oriented programming greatly reduces risk by ensuring that you’re always working on something important, and it ensures that you are well-versed in a problem space before attempting a large investment.

    I have a mantra for suffering-oriented programming: “First make it possible. Then make it beautiful. Then make it fast.””

    tags: development storm pragmatism iteration

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How organizations filter out change agents in their hiring process

Hypothesis: One way to change an organization is to join it.  Can we prove or disprove this hypothesis? I had a long lunch with a friend of mine (whom I’ll call Joseph) who was interviewing at an analyst firm that freely shares opinions on Ente…

Enterprise Architecture entry in Wikipedia (ii)

Cont’d.Wikipedia: “the United States Government describes enterprise architecture as an Information Technology function. Instead of describing enterprise architecture in relation to the practice of examining an enterprise, the U.S. Government defines t…

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Open Group Security Gurus Dissect the Cloud: Higher of Lower Risk

By Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions For some, any move to the Cloud — at least the public Cloud — means a higher risk for security. For others, relying more on a public Cloud provider means better security. There’s more of a concentrated a…