Azure – Practitioners Guides
I think that this post by Bill Zack is pretty useful. The post lists resources for everyone who wants to…
Should IT run “like a business” or “like a non-profit?”
Why is it so hard to run IT like a business? Because, I can choose to be a customer of…
Want the Software Quality Attributes of a service? — ask the customer!
Nilesh starts blogging, and his first post is of such high quality that I have to rave about it here. …
Standardization works with a limited, and rational, scope
I’ve been on a roll lately, calling for the creating of a standardized approach to the partitioning of Line-of-Business apps. …
The battle for the net-top heats up
Sometimes, in a long struggle, a goal that was strategic one day, becomes unimportant later. This happens when some underlying…
Focusing on Customer 2.0
There’s been talk, for years now, about concepts like Enterprise 2.0 and Web 2.0. We are all so enamored with…
How do I fix the broken stuff?
No organization is perfect. We each can look around and say “stuff is broken here.” So, how to fix things?…
The Unimportant SOA Catalog
Have you ever woke up in the morning with an idea in your head that you simply have to write…
What is the REST high-order bit?
Harry Pierson asks a great question in his post on REST (A REST Question). I’ll summarize his excellent post this way:…
Web 2.0 vs. the IT department
Michael Platt posted a set of observations recently that offered up some troubling conclusions. In his post, which you should…