In the past couple of days I’ve read a couple of articles (”IT can’t be a service provider and a partner too” and “Run IT as a business – why that’s a train wreck waiting to happen“) that riff on the same theme: that the exhortation to “run IT as a business” leads you down [...]
Posted by Neil Ward-Dutton on January 21, 2010
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While I was at IASA’s ITARC NYC the other week, Matt Deacon (day job: developer/architect evangelist for Microsoft in the UK; evening job: UK Chapter President of IASA) interviewed me about my thoughts on the value of architecture, the role of IASA and also about the talk I gave at the event.
The talk I gave [...]
Posted by admin on November 2, 2009
Last week I spent three days in Manhattan, attending the International Association of Software Architects (IASA)’s IT Architecture Regional Conference (ITARC) in NY. That’s a long time for me to be anywhere – so why did I do it?
The first answer is the speaker lineup – there were keynotes from Len Bass of Carnegie-Mellon’s SEI; [...]
Posted by admin on October 19, 2009
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We all know that the general level of industry interest in Cloud Computing is high – but how much is Cloud Computing being actively considered and pursued by “enterprise IT” organisations, as opposed to software-as-a-service startups and professional ISVs moving to the SaaS model?
To help support the launch of our new Software Delivery advisory service [...]
Posted by admin on September 11, 2009
With much of the early development in the Business Process Management (BPM) market being driven by technology vendors selling products for one-off departmental projects to line-of-business heads, and with IT stakeholders often being brought in only after the deal is done, lately we’ve been wondering – now that there’s no doubt that BPM is becoming [...]
Posted by admin on April 9, 2009
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Yesterday I spent the evening at a dinner in London as a stand-in for my colleague Bola Rotibi, talking about Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and governing software delivery to a group of around 20 senior IT leaders. Due to my own disorganisation I’d not realised that this was a stand-up talk with no visuals or [...]
Posted by admin on March 20, 2009
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Something that’s been sloshing gently around in my head for a little while came into focus the other day on reading a post by Brenda Michelson: Unintentional Cloud Watching >> Cloud Computing for Enterprise Architects. Namely, that the link between cloud computing and SOA has multiple angles.
It’s becoming clearer that, true to Tim O’Reilly’s initial [...]
Posted by admin on February 23, 2009
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I’ve spent a couple of days wavering over whether to jump into an ongoing blogosphere debate over the “Death of SOA”. For those who haven’t yet read any of the debate online, here’s the catalyst: SOA is Dead; Long Live Services – a fictional obituary of SOA by Anne Thomas Manes of the Burton [...]
Posted by admin on January 8, 2009
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I’ve been spending a fair bit of time this week talking to a journalist I’ve known for years, Danny Bradbury, for a series of features he’s writing on the middleware strategies of some of the big enterprise software vendors.
After our first chat, something suddenly struck me (probably very belatedly): when middleware is talked about and [...]
Posted by admin on November 6, 2008
I was on the way back to the office from a briefing with BPM vendor Pegasystems yesterday, where we’d had an interesting discussion about the relative roles that BPM and SOA can play in business transformation for customers.
We agreed that BPM, done right, is as much of a discipline that organisations can use to [...]
Posted by admin on July 26, 2007
