I had a great chat with an experienced IT software development leader in IT this afternoon.  He was telling me…

Have I got an architecture for you! It’s cool.  We have a set of services that underlie the user interface…

Michael Platt posted a set of observations recently that offered up some troubling conclusions.  In his post, which you should…

Just came back from an all-day offsite with the EA team in Microsoft IT.  It occurs to me, in speaking…

I’m working on a single task, part of a much larger project.  It is on the critical path, and I…

If you do what is needed, but not what you are told, are you a hero, or a rebel? In…

Microsoft is an odd bird.  It is a dynamic place, with different business units moving at their own rate, not…

Not that it’s fun to count to 1000, but kids will not believe you until you show them not only…

A pattern is a solution that occurs many times.  You recognize it and describe it and others use it.  The…

In IT, for years now, we’ve been debating and arguing for changes in the way in which we write software. …