Resurfacing Diversity Challenges

July 28th, 2010 Comments Off

I got a tweet from Clive Seebregts which pointed me to an InfoQ article that made reference to an old Hanselminutes podcast that I did.  It’s nice to see that diversity is not being left in the wilderness and that other people are thinking about it again.  It seems like some people are trying to promote diversity and others are trying to manage the challenges of diversity.  Hmmm, somewhere there is point of brutal contact, but it will be for the good.

BTW, digging around on material diversity in agile teams I came across this video.  I didn’t know it existed at all.  Suddenly, the references to the FIFA 2010 World Cup seem sooooo dated.

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Top Down SOA: Aligning Business Functions

July 1st, 2008 Comments Off

Yesterday I had a really fun time running a workshop at the IQPC SOA conference on Structuring your SOA Project.  It was interesting to see that SOA is still not clearly understood and that the “silver bullet” answers are a still being sought after by a few.

The heart of my workshop centered on the theme that you cannot steer clear of business or domain knowledge, even if you try to design your services by wrapping existing software assets.  It just has to align to reality in the business, otherwise you will just create another architecture that has a fractured line to the business needs.

The other interesting theme that arose, unintentionally, was that it may well be easier to sneak in SOA by thinking in services and building some solutions covertly.  Once value is delivered and becomes noticeable, then start spreading out to the next cell … almost virally.

I summarised the main thoughts in the article on DZone at http://architects.dzone.com/articles/top-down-soa-aligning-business.

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OSGi Article Part 2 on DZone

April 7th, 2008 Comments Off

The second part of my OSGi article is up on DZone. Here’s the URL’s for both parts.

  1. http://java.dzone.com/news/there-place-osgitm-enterprise-
  2. http://java.dzone.com/news/there-place-osgi-enterprise-ap-0

Enjoy!

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OSGi Article on DZone

March 31st, 2008 § 2

An article I wrote which questions the readiness of OSGi for enterprise development has been published in two parts on the EclipseZone at DZone.  Read the first part at http://eclipse.dzone.com/news/there-place-osgitm-enterprise-. Watch out for the hyphen at the end of the URL, it’s significant :-)

Many thanks to the kind folks at DZone for the publication.

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Software as a Service Article on Computing SA

December 4th, 2007 Comments Off

My article on Software as a Service (SaaS) has made it into Computing SA.  Read the article here.

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