Wrap-up: Full presentation and slide-deck
Seeing JavaZone 2016 just around the corner, I realise I never got around to finishing off this blog series. Although I finished putting all the information together, I simply never got around to finishing...
A Toolbox of Software Architecture Review Techniques - Pt 3
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Part 3: Evaluation Criteria - "Is it good enough FOR WHAT"
(This is the third post in the series on architecture review techniques. Check out Part 1 and Part 2 if you haven’t done so already)
Evaluation criteria - you should definitely have some
Seriously....
A Toolbox of Software Architecture Review Techniques - Pt 2
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Part 2: Building on our collective experience
The first article in this series looked at the simplest thing that could be useful when doing architecture reviews. This one looks at how you structure a more systematic review using the collected experience...
A Toolbox of Software Architecture Review Techniques - Pt 1
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Part 1: The problem with many architecture reviews and the simplest thing you can do to make them better
I was at the Software Architect conference in London back in October and saw Rob Smallshire (@robsmallshire) give a talk on Conducting an Architecture...
If all you have is an Elephant and 6 Blind Men
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I was in a presentation the other day where (once again) a speaker invoked the Blind Men and the Elephant parable to explain some misunderstanding
I'm sure you know the one:
There's a large IT project with a lot of different people involved.
There...
SEMAT and the origins of Software Engineering
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I hope commentators on the SEMAT initiative - on both sides - have read enough history so that the rest of us aren't doomed to listen to a repeat performance of the last 40 years.
Its been interesting for me to follow the initial steps of the Software...
improving software architecture competence
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How do you go about getting better as a software architect?
You'd think there would be plenty of information available.
Recently our local IASA chapter had a session on Improving Software Architecture Competence, so I threw together some thoughts to...
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Its seems to be quite popular for Sun people to be shifting blog address and I'm doing the same.
Now that OpenESB has been made "non-strategic" and while we wait for the legal processes that take place during the acquisition of global companies, I've...