Tag: soa

A funny thing happened to me last night. Why do funny things always happen when I have time to think?

I was manually copying over birthdays from my Exchange calendar to a Google calendar. Pretty brainless work so my mind was wandering. And, I realized... if I were a little less careful and...

Stephan Lahanas posted on the top-10 reasons SOA projects fail.  I think many of his points are very valid (especially the one about how it's the business that matters, not the standards or...

There are different types of marketing... but product marketing, in part, "figures out what to call that thing."

You see, we have a lot of really smart engineers who are doing new things and are very creative about solving...

Todd Biske wrote a good post the other day that focused on how governance doesn't mean command and control.

Let me add a few important things to the discussion though: no amount of "management by consensus" will make...

Whew. What a rough weekend.

I was listening to Condi talk on Friday with a sense of relief. The Russians had invaded Georgia and she brokered a cease-fire. I was worried about friends I have there, though, when I spoke...

Been thinking a lot about Software-as-a-Service (or SaaS) this week, and as it turns out, so have a few...

Overly complicating things is not an accomplishment, no matter how hard it appears someone's worked to complicate the simplest things.

Take grocery shopping. Simple, right? Pick food, get in line, pay at register. Doesn't get much easier.

Except at...

A short post today... There's so much good stuff happening but I want to try to blog more regularly. I wonder if shorter posts with less flourish will generate more conversation?

In any case, last night I was reading through Seeking Alpha's...

I continue to be surprised by the number of enterprise architects I talk to that think that the way to implement design-time governance is to have a checkpoint, before a service goes into production, to validate the service meets the requirements and rules.

The key problem with this approach...