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IT Role (Inter)play

By Bob Rhubart on October 17, 2008 4:21 PM

A couple of months before the clock started ticking on Joe the Plumber's fifteen minutes of fame, Technology Edge blogger J Schwan used similarly named characters (Bob the Business Stakeholder, Pam the Project Manager, Art the Architect) to illustrate an...

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Software with a side of Potatoes

By Bob Rhubart on August 26, 2008 1:35 PM

I've spend a significant portion of the last decade reading and editing what other people have written about software. While the people doing the writing are smart and know their technical stuff up, down, and inside-out, their writing can sometimes be... informative. And by "informative" I mean dry enough to drain a swamp. Not so with William Vanbenepe.

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Communication 2.0 and the Art of Connection

By Bob Rhubart on August 15, 2008 3:23 PM

 Yesterday's post dealt with the relationship between architects and developers, and how that relationship can have an impact on the success of development projects.  Today I found a not-so-recent post on Bex Huff's blog that hits on a highly relevant...

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Architects and Developers: Part of a System

By Bob Rhubart on August 14, 2008 1:55 PM

I ran across UK-based site called Coding the Architecture that includes Mind the gap, an article that explores the relationship between developers and architects, and the perceived role of the architect:   Our industry has a love/hate relationship with the software...

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