The Impact of Making Product Choices Using Qualitative vs. Quantitative Analysis
As part of my job, I help customers to select the appropriate software to either fulfill a need or as…
Then What Does Make Someone an Architect?
So, allow me to expand on my prior blog entry — Architecture Frameworks Don’t Make Architects — and answer the…
Architecture Frameworks Don’t Make Architects
So, I was about to blog on this topic when up comes a Tweet from Ron Schmelzer (@rschmelzer) over at…
Business’ Abuse of IT People
I just want to give a shout-out to all those IT people working their butts off everyday and taking crap…
The Reason SOA Isn’t Delivering Sustainable Software
Wow, to read the positive reviews of SOA and what it’s doing for the IT industry, one would be likely…
Is Vendor-based SOA Training A Good Idea?
I saw an [url=http://soa.sys-con.com/node/980029 new=true]announcement[/url] this morning by WSO2 that they are offering free SOA Training this summer; this triggered…
SOA is Dead, No Wait, It’s Alive, Wait, No, It’s, It’s…Perhaps It’s Who’s Adopted SOA, Not What Has Been Adopted
I’m currently reading “ Influencers”, in which the authors make a great point that with innovation, the messenger is as…
The Relationship Between SOA, BPM & EA
A colleague recently sent me some IBM propaganda on SOA, BPM and EA. Discussing my opinion of the white paper…
Architecture is a Craft
Yesterday, I read Fowler’s “Who Needs an Architect” , which is an odd piece that never really answer the question…
What’s the difference between a software component and a service?
It seems that I am not as flexible as I believed I could be on my thinking regarding SOA. I…