Let’s face it, to most people in IT, “Governance” is a dirty word. That perception is not born out of an idea that IT governance is bad, but out of the reality that IT governance is badly implemented in most organizations. When an organization confuses good IT governance with overly detailed and prescriptive IT governance, it starts to constrain rather than […]
Read MoreWe’ve all found ourselves looking at an organization’s web services and commenting on how “It’s not really SOA”. Maybe because the program still maintains point-to-point interfaces, or maybe the organization hasn’t put in place any form of governance, but for whatever reason, we declare that it simply isn’t comprehensive enough to be considered SOA. That […]
Read MoreSOA landscapes today look very much like fractals. An organization may have several internal capabilities presented as reusable services that connect to each other. It may even connect to 3rd party and/or cloud based services. But if you drill down into each of these services, you’ll likely see a composite application that is made up […]
Read MoreThe Oldest Buzzword Around Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) isn’t a new concept by any means. It’s practically a decade old and, in IT years, that’s beyond the useful lifespan of just about all buzzwords. And that’s the problem; as a buzzword, SOA never attained the same level of popularity as Cloud or Big Data. The […]
Read MoreOne of the most commonly touted features of commercial Enterprise Service Bus products (ESB’s) is the out-of-box adapters for other COTS products (eg. SAP, PeopleSoft, Siebel). But organizations who become dependent on these adapters and take a “use ‘em if you’ve got ‘em” approach inevitably find that the implementations are a lot more complex than […]
Read MoreI know, at first glance it looks like the cramming together of 3 loosely defined and oft-debated buzzwords into the title, but got your attention didn’t it? So if you will bear with me for a few minutes, I will explain how applying Agile to a much more abstract of an activity such as building […]
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