Malik's Laws of Service Oriented Architecture
No one but you will build the services you need in time for you to use them If you build…
Enterprise SOA needs a Federated Evolutionary Modeling Environment
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the gap between “what we have” and “what we need” in the Enterprise…
How FEA handles Capability and Process Modeling
A few weeks ago, in a blog post, I asked about the relationship between business process modeling and business capability…
Rant: Avoiding the Problem Duck Hunt
Just a rant. “I’ve got me a shotgun… let’s go find a duck!” I call that a “problem duck hunt.” …
Merging Capability Modeling with Process Modeling
Gentle reader: can you help me to solve a debate? Introduction Many companies have adopted the practice of capability modeling…
Put perspective on both short and long term problems
I’m always a bit worried when someone has “the answer.” Lot’s of red flags go up when someone tells me:…
JaBoWS is the Enemy of Enterprise SOA
As a community, we have sat silently by as the pundits have sold products that fail to deliver on the…
Right-sizing the Event Message
One challenge in designing Event Driven SOA exchanges is to decide how big your event messages should be. I have…
Engineering for Serendipity
REST is not enough. I just read Steve Vinoski’s article “Serendipitous Reuse?” in IEEE Internet Computing magazine. He makes a…
Measuring the agility of a SOA approach
I’m thinking about the business case for integration again… (still). We talk about SOA providing a benefit by being more…