The New Life of Joe – Part One – Off to a cold start
Joe Freeflier is not a lucky man. He’s been promoted. Oh, he wanted the promotion. He asked for the promotion,…
Asking IT to perform Business Process Management…
One of the current trends in IT is for CIOs to vie for the right to take over Business Process…
Paying for SOA
Once again, I’d like to return to the economic model for SOA. This time with a comparison to other systems…
Momentum and Inertia
In Physics, Momentum and Inertia are related. In the battle for mind-share, they are as well. If I have an…
SOA Economic Model: Avoiding Chargebacks with Transaction Ratio Funding
There are still people who believe that Chargeback models work. For example, Mark Denne argued in CIO Magazine in January:…
Good intentions – bad SOA
Joe McKendrick brings up a very important point about “building SOA” in an organization where the developers have no idea…
Creating a constrained definition for a measurable business process
Ask ten business people about “the billing process” in your company. Get specific. Diagram it out. You will get eleven…
How often do I get to be part of the "next" big thing?
Ran across this post that asks “Why is Enterprise Architecture becoming the next big thing?” There’s no really new content…
WSPER quietly, then go away
Found an interesting initiative called WSPER (“whisper”) at http://www.wsper.org/ that aims to define a formal syntax for defining composable SOA applications. …
Beware of SOA in a box
As I’ve discussed many times, SOA is not a product. It is an architectural style. That said, products can help…