The Secret Sauce Great software requires an understanding of the secret sauce that goes into making it. Enterprises that fall down when it comes to great architectures can also tap into this recipe. It turns out that architecture needs and good agile practices are actually one and the same.
Crisis Over Software development projects have problems, but software development doesn’t.
Ungoverning the Business Standards in enterprise IT aren’t just irrelevent, they’re devisive, dangerous and they restrict progress. You don’t need governance and you don’t need standards. You need checkpoints in the process you already have and a community that determines its own accepted practices and keeps them alive.
Hammer Time IT in big corporates has become so afraid of making mistakes that hardly anybody will stand up and say following corporate platform standards, or waterfall design, might not be the best approach. This is a post in favour of (some) tool-first thinking.
Strained Relationships Just what is all this fuss about NoSQL? Is the relational database dead? Or are we just in need of alternative options to solve a new breed of problem?
Law and Order Has Enterprise Architecture had its day? All rise. The court is in session.
Quixotics Anonymous Quixotics Anonymous a special interest group for the down at heart in corporate IT. Patron Saint: C. Northcote Parkinson.
Gangstas Dont Scale Enterprise integration had a tendency about ten years ago to be all asynchronous. Enterprise Architects, seduced by talk of cheap limitless scale from vendors, installed message based middeware everywhere. But asynchrony has some important constraints that aren’t always obvious. This article illustrates one of these constraints using an example from The Wire TV show.
Walking the Walk
The Estimation Game Much of what happens during portfolio planning is just wasting time on a wistful mirage.