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...
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 important point about communication, cooperation, and the responsibilities that connect the proliferate roles in IT. The names may be corny, but the issue Schwan addresses -- and he does it quite well -- is as serious as...
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,...
I was privileged to be among the invitees to Forrester analyst Jeremiah Owyang's "Future of the Social Web" round table yesterday. Although I got the invitation...
I was privileged to be among the invitees to Forrester analyst Jeremiah Owyang's "Future of the Social Web" round table yesterday. Although I got the invitation relatively late and didn't have a huge amount of time to think about this issue in advance, the time was more than well spent.With approximately 40 participants from all walks of the "social web", this event, which I would characterize as an interactive workshop, could plausibly be considered a bellwether of the...
I was privileged to be among the invitees to Forrester analyst Jeremiah Owyang's "Future of the Social Web" round table yesterday. Although I got the invitation relatively late and didn't have a huge...
Last spring, back when getting through the front page of the Wall Street Journal didn't require a handful of powerful tranquilizers, I wrote a post about the...
Last spring, back when getting through the front page of the Wall Street Journal didn't require a handful of powerful tranquilizers, I wrote a post about the importance of innovation in an unforgivably competitive business environment. These days, with the Magic Economic Eight Ball offering tepid prognostications that range from "Reply hazy, try again" to "Better not tell you now," does innovation still matter? Ask Insight-Driven Retailing blogger David Dorf: What will...
Last spring, back when getting through the front page of the Wall Street Journal didn't require a handful of powerful tranquilizers, I wrote a post about the importance of innovation in...
This is my third post in as many days on the effects of the the tanking economy on IT, and threat to Wall Street pedestrians increasing hourly, it looks like...
This is my third post in as many days on the effects of the the tanking economy on IT, and threat to Wall Street pedestrians increasing hourly, it looks like there will be ample opportunities for more... In this economy it is inevitable that already snug IT budgets will become tighter than the t-shirt on a champion pizza eater. But really, hasn't IT always been about cutting business costs, even when budgets were more generous? So is what's going on now really all that...
This is my third post in as many days on the effects of the the tanking economy on IT, and threat to Wall Street pedestrians increasing hourly, it looks like there will be ample opportunities for...
In a recent post I referenced ZDNet SOA blogger Joe McKendrick's comments on how the current economic situation makes SOA even more attractive. My post drew a...
In a recent post I referenced ZDNet SOA blogger Joe McKendrick's comments on how the current economic situation makes SOA even more attractive. My post drew a comment that asked which of SOA's benefits "become especially prominent during economic downturns." Just after replying to that comment I discovered Joe McKendrick's post from earlier today about Thomas Erl's presentation at the SOA Symposium underway in Amsterdam. McKendrick's post offers another angle on SOA's value...
In a recent post I referenced ZDNet SOA blogger Joe McKendrick's comments on how the current economic situation makes SOA even more attractive. My post drew a comment that asked which of...
Three new OTN TechCast podcasts present a series of panel discussions featuring Cathy Lippert (Mix profile), Sharon Fay (Mix profile), and Mike Stamback (blog),...
Three new OTN TechCast podcasts present a series of panel discussions featuring Cathy Lippert (Mix profile), Sharon Fay (Mix profile), and Mike Stamback (blog), all members of the Oracle SOA Governance team. Part 1: SOA Governance Misperceptions Faulty assumptions and misunderstanding about SOA governance can cause expensive headaches. Part 2: SOA Governance - Hitting the Sweet Spot Overcoming obstacles to well-balanced SOA Governance Part 3: SOA Governance Without...
Three new OTN TechCast podcasts present a series of panel discussions featuring Cathy Lippert (Mix profile), Sharon Fay (Mix profile), and Mike Stamback (blog), all members of the Oracle...
Two recent posts by ZDNet SOA blogger Joe McKendrick present a kind of good news/bad news scenario for IT architects and those who aspire to that role. In a...
Two recent posts by ZDNet SOA blogger Joe McKendrick present a kind of good news/bad news scenario for IT architects and those who aspire to that role. In a Sept 29th post, McKendrick discussed a recent report by Forrester’s Marc Cecere that found that the current economic downturn could trigger an increased demand for those with architecture skills and experience. In a Sept 18th post, McKendrick reported on a conversation with IT consultant David Foote, who observed that...
Two recent posts by ZDNet SOA blogger Joe McKendrick present a kind of good news/bad news scenario for IT architects and those who aspire to that role. In a Sept 29th post, McKendrick discussed...
You can't keep a good idea down... Time and technical issues may have conspired to prevent Avrom Roy-Faderman from doing his "Extreme Reusability" presentation...
You can't keep a good idea down... Time and technical issues may have conspired to prevent Avrom Roy-Faderman from doing his "Extreme Reusability" presentation at the OpenWorld Unconference Methodoloy Symposium, but that material has itself been repurposed and reused, and is now available on Avrom's blog. What's Extreme Reusabilty, you ask? Avrom explains: Development under Extreme Reusability involves developing along three separate but interacting. . .tracks: framework...
You can't keep a good idea down... Time and technical issues may have conspired to prevent Avrom Roy-Faderman from doing his "Extreme Reusability" presentation at the OpenWorld Unconference Methodoloy...
Motivated by a conversation he had at OpenWorld, Jeff Davies has embarked on a project on his SOA Thinker blog that offers great promise in improving...
Motivated by a conversation he had at OpenWorld, Jeff Davies has embarked on a project on his SOA Thinker blog that offers great promise in improving communication around all things architecture. As Jeff explains: Last week at Oracle Open World I had the opportunity to meet a number of folks interested in Oracle products in general and SOA in particular. One gentleman that I spoke with was very technical, but asked me to explain what I meant by, “point-to-point integration”....
Motivated by a conversation he had at OpenWorld, Jeff Davies has embarked on a project on his SOA Thinker blog that offers great promise in improving communication around all things architecture. As...
