If all you have is an Elephant and 6 Blind Men

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...

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SEMAT and the origins of Software Engineering

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...

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improving software architecture competence

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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new blog

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...

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