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Partners, not police

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/ar-eastand/index.html Nice article on the fundamental challenges of EA in large organizations. The author discusses common issues and recommendations with how EA organizations are structured and managed.

Posted to David Strommer (Weblog) by David Strommer on 09-15-2008
Microsoft Joins OMG

http://www.ddj.com/architect/210600738?cid=RSSfeed_DDJ_All It doesn't appear that MS will focus on UML. Instead, their focus is on MDA. I think this is good news for the industry and MDA. UML on the other hand? The two most helpful UML diagrams are the sequence and deployment.

Posted to David Strommer (Weblog) by David Strommer on 09-13-2008
Periodic table of visualization

http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html

Posted to David Strommer (Weblog) by David Strommer on 09-13-2008
The MOST acronym for strategy planning

I came across an interesting acronym called MOST – Mission, Objectives, Strategies, and Tactics. Original source - http://www.strategy.nildram.co.uk/most.html MOST helps to clarify where the business intends to go ( Mission ), they key goals which will help to achieve this ( Objectives ), analyses what...

Posted to David Strommer (Weblog) by David Strommer on 07-20-2008
Crazy Architects

Pest control is a constant battle especially if you live in Florida. A few months ago, while tending the lawn I noticed several ants. I promptly called the pest control service. I learned later that the ants are known as crazy ants ( Paratrechina longicornis ) and common in Florida. The name "crazy...

Posted to David Strommer (Weblog) by David Strommer on 07-11-2008
A comprehensive analysis of BPM Suites

After months of tweaking and review, our coverage of IBM's BPM technology offering is now live. It joins our coverage of Appian , BEA (we're keeping an eye on this, of course, and will update it as soon as is practical), Lombardi , Software AG and TIBCO . We've been working on this...

Posted to David Strommer (Weblog) by David Strommer on 06-29-2008
Building a solution with many projects is SLOWWWWWWW

This week I am attending TechEd in Orlando FL and I was honored to be requested to work the C# booth by the MVP and C# teams. I got many great questions from attendees and I thought I would post some of the more interesting ones. So here goes. An attendee, let’s call him Bob, came up and said that his...

Posted to Shawn Weisfeld [MVP] (Weblog) by sweisfeld on 06-04-2008
Software + Services

"The difference between services and software is largely frame of reference. Services are ultimately provided by software and hosted somewhere. Microsoft wants to provide the best solutions for consuming, providing, and combining services , whether they are data or rich media, and whether they live...

Posted to John Arcidiacono - Automatic in the Enterprise (Weblog) by jarcid on 01-08-2008
SDO support for .Net

Jean-Jacques Dubray of http://www.ebpml.org/about.htm is becoming one of my favorite blogs. I have only followed his blog the past couple of months. I admire him because he is one of a few technologists that attempt to step back from the platform specific SOA implementations and discuss SOA from an agnostic...

Posted to David Strommer (Weblog) by David Strommer on 12-03-2007
Why Objects Suck

I saw this great article over at codeproject: http://www.codeproject.com/gen/design/theWrongObject.asp . Here is one part I found to be particularly on point: " Now, the diagram above is a bit silly, but I think it's also illustrative of the evolution in both hardware and software architectures...

Posted to roy ashbrook (Weblog) by royashbrook on 11-29-2007

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