Author Archives: Andrew
There’s a perennial discussion in architecture forums like the WWISA about the role of the architect, and the discussion regularly degenerates into a debate between the broad and narrow views of what the architect does.
But I’m not sure that’s the key question. I think the right question is “Who are the architects?”
Somehow, a number of tasks must be discharged, but how varies from project to project. In the last year I’ve had a modest building project which tells an interesting story about how different people contribute to “the architecture”. Read more here…
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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
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 →
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 →
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
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Thoughts on the World
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 →
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 →
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 →
Please forgive me if this sounds like a rant, but I’m very annoyed. Someone who should know better has without warning changed a public interface, with the inevitable effect that dependent systems, in particular my blog, have broken. The offender? Continue reading →
Monday, July 18, 2005 in
Thoughts on the World
I’ve just read an excellent paper by Pat Helland of Microsoft, in which he likens the development of cities and manufacturing in the 19th century to the development of systems and business models now. His conclusion – IT at the Continue reading →
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