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Best Practices in Test Automation
I am looking for one of my clients into how costs can be reduced, or quality increased, by increasing the extent to which testing is automated. As a first step, I am trying to develop a comprehensive list of test Continue reading
Tuesday, May 23, 2006 in Agile & Architecture, Thoughts on the World
The Agile Architect at EAC 2006
If anyone is interested in hearing more about my views on architecture, and how agile methods apply to the work of the architect, please sign up for the 2006 Enterprise Architecture Conference in London in June. I’m presenting a paper Continue reading
Wednesday, March 22, 2006 in Agile & Architecture, Thoughts on the World
Who Are the Architects?
How a number of people in different rules contribute to “architecture” Continue reading
Thursday, January 19, 2006 in Agile & Architecture, Thoughts on the World
Happy New Year!
Apologies to regular readers who wondered if I’d fallen off the planet. It’s been a busy second half of 2005, and I haven’t managed to do much reading or writing for a few months. However, with the builders gone and Continue reading
Tuesday, January 3, 2006 in Personal News
An Agile Architecture War Story
I don’t really believe in a common architectural process. As the author of a successful project management book, and recent articles on data architecture methods, I probably shouldn’t say this, but to paraphrase a famous quote, “When I hear ‘process’, Continue reading
Modelling Data Mapping – A Challenge
Almost all integration projects contain one or more transformations (sometimes called “mappings”) between two different structures holding equivalent data (for example the order tables in the database, and the order XML message). We know how to model the individual static Continue reading
Friday, August 26, 2005 in Agile & Architecture, Thoughts on the World
Review – A Short History of Nearly Everything
I’ve just posted my review of Bill Bryson’s “A Short History of Nearly Everthing”. I found it an excellent holiday read, athough a general science book with almost no illustrations or equations took a bit of getting used to. For Continue reading
Tuesday, August 16, 2005 in Reviews, Thoughts on the World
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Science for the verbally-minded Continue reading
Metropolis – Where Do You Want To Live Today?
There’s been a lot of talk in recent years about a “city planning” metaphor for Enterprise Architecture development. Pat Helland’s article “Metropolis” in the Microsoft Architecture Journal is a very good example (see my post on this for some key Continue reading
Monday, August 8, 2005 in Agile & Architecture, Thoughts on the World
My Favourite Films – An Exercise in Over-Analysis
A bit of a change from my more serious posts, but maybe a useful lesson in analysis, here’s the sorry tale of just how complicated I managed to make listing my top ten favourtite films. I hope it gives you Continue reading
Review – Enterprise Integration Patterns
I’ve just posted my review of Gregor Hohpe and Bobby Woolfe’s excellent book on Enterprise Integration using messaging, “Enterprise Integration Patterns”. Overall it’s an excellent book, and wiil probably become a “bible” for those involved in the high-level design of Continue reading
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