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Is architecture functional?

Wed, 05 Apr 2017 12:47:25 +0000

Functional architecture? What do you mean? Of course the architecture works, that’s the whole point…

Enterprise IT - How to avoid mediocrity

Mon, 27 Mar 2017 09:06:46 +0000

Let’s talk about Enterprise IT.

Saturn 2017 Call for Submission

Wed, 30 Nov 2016 15:15:21 +0000

The Call for Submission of the SATURN 2017 is now open.

Demise of Enterprise IT

Wed, 13 Apr 2016 10:01:54 +0000

At the SATURN 2016 conference, I have been selected to hold a 15 minute TED-style talk entitled “The demise of Enterprise IT”. The premise of the talk is that the time of large centralized IT departments is over, and it is time for the business units to be be set free to solve their own problems. Large centralized departments and standardized solutions are not conducive to innovation, and a more agile approach is needed where the people who own the challenge and has the business knowledge are paired directly with the developers to create custom solutions.

Saturn Conference 2016

Thu, 11 Feb 2016 08:56:44 +0000

I have the honor and pleasure of having been asked to serve as co-technical chair for this year’s Saturn conference. This year will be the 12th annual SEI Architecture Technical User Network (SATURN) conference in San Diego, California, and I’m responsible for the program. My co-chair is Amine Chigani from GE Software, and we also have a number of experienced people from the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon on the program committee.

Blog relaunch

Tue, 09 Feb 2016 10:29:00 +0000

In 2016 I have decided to relaunch this old blog on a new platform. I’m now using Jekyll and ruby to build a static site and host it on GitHub Pages.

JAOO 2009 Day 1

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 07:29:00 +0000

The first conference day of JAOO looked like it was going to be a challenge. As usual there were too many good tracks to choose from and I hadn't yet perfected my cloning technique. In retrospect, I missed a couple of good ones, but I got to sit in on some good ones as well. That's life.

JAOO 2009 Sunday tutorials

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 07:13:00 +0000

The first day of JAOO traditionally is set aside for tutorials. This was also true this year. When I was here two years ago they had the tutorials at the SAS Radisson, but this year the tutorials were held at Triforks new offices and in Musikkhuset.

JAOO 2009

Sun, 04 Oct 2009 19:33:00 +0000

Finally, the JAOO conference 2009 has started. Been through a day of tutorials as we are warming up to the conference proper, that is starting tomorrow.

SEAS / DTC conference dinner

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:30:00 +0000

Last night was the conference dinner, and before you ask, yes I feel that today. It was held in an old church in Edinburgh called Mansfield Traquair, which is a really beautiful old building that has been refurbished into a social venue.