Moving the Decimal Point: Open Source Software and Operational Savings Clink this link Open Source in Government for the whitepaper from the ‘Center for Digital Government’ titled “Open Source and Operational Savings“.
Every enterprise has an IT architecture! It is this architecture that defines the environment underpinning the systems that run the business. It is also this architecture that defines the way pieces of any of those system are constructed and how they execute (run) While there is no standard, universally accepted [...]
Moving the Decimal Point: Open Source Software and Operational Savings Clink this link Open Source in Government for the whitepaper from the ‘Center for Digital Government’ titled “Open Source and Operational Savings“.
Enterprise Architecture Portal Site LiquidSight.net Home Page LiquidSight.net Portal Every enterprise has an IT architecture! It is this architecture that defines the environment underpinning the systems that run the business. It is also this architecture that defines the way pieces of any of those system are constructed and how they execute (run) While there is no standard, universally accepted [...]Architecture Lesson #1 You can bridge the gap, or close the impedance mismatch; between any two entities [objects] with a layer of abstraction. Architecture Lesson #2 You can increase the performance of any system, at any time, by removing a layer of abstraction. Architecture Lesson #3 Every software system and application has [...]A good SOA infrastructure supported by solid standards, along with the discipline to enforce a governance model that maintains the integrity of the paradigm, can neutralize the wild, wild west of vendor stability. Think you’re immune from your vendor going away? Think SUN, Seibel Systems, Silicon Graphics, or even the [...]Thanks to CIO Magazine (http://cio.com/article/print/438413). – Mike Kavis, CIO,July 18, 2008 When I read this article “10 Reasons Why People Make SOA Fail” by Mike Kavis, my first though was “Here’s someone who’s actually done this before”. Here’s a reprint of his article from CIO magazine. In time I’ll be [...]SOA is more of an evolution; versus a revolution. The creation of abstract [architectural] layers to better align technology with the business it’s supporting (and also the business people), has been going on at least 40 years now. And with each new abstraction layer, the delivery capability technologists have at their [...]The Hawthorne Effect.
The Placebo Effect.
Occam's Razor.
The Peter Principle.
Parkinson's Law.
Parkinson's Second Law
Murphy's Law.
The Pareto Principle.
The Rule of Redundant Systems.
The Zeigarnik Effect.
The Contrast Principle.
Cognitive Dissonance.
Perceptual Consistency.
The Turnpike Effect.
When technology infrastructure lines up with business projects like musicians in a marching band, you know you have a good enterprise architect on staff. But will you keep him when it’s time to start handing out pink slips? You will if you can make the case for this hard-to-define but [...]
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