Stateless is to service as commandless is to data
Abstract: This article provides a counterpoint to Pat Helland’s most recent article by describing the concept of “commandless data documents,”…
Using Service Oriented Architecture concepts for database replication
Is SOA really useful for database replication? Yes and no. This posting will discuss a dilemna that a project of…
How to encourage your outsourcing partners to avoid waterfall processes
Wrote an article a few days back and posted it here: http://blogs.msdn.com/nickmalik/articles/243442.aspx This article is directly aimed at folks who…
Agile Vendor Management – removing waterfall from outsourced projects
The Tyranny of Waterfall in RFPs When I was in consulting, we would routinely bid on RFP (Requests for Proposal)…
Workflow patterns – so much more left undone
I have been following the progress of Dr. Wil van der Aalst in his efforts to create a patterns language…
The infancy of workflow diagramming standards
I did something foolish recently… I criticized someone for an analysis diagram that, I felt, didn’t use “standard” workflow notations.…