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The business value of elegant designmsdn.com » Inside Architecture - Nov 3, 2008 In my last post, I highlighted the design process, suggesting that designers and architects should consider using creativity, in addition to methods and patterns, to build a truly useful system. In this one, I'd like … Also tagged: analysis, architecture and oo design |
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Non-Functional Requirements: the "All-Other" classificationmsdn.com » Inside Architecture - Oct 15, 2008 I've seen various taxonomies of requirements. Like all taxonomies, any set of requirement types exists to classify or partition requirements into coherent groups for further analysis. Most break down the list of … Also tagged: analysis |
msdn.com » Inside Architecture - Oct 4, 2008
Todd Biske, whom I respect for his writings on SOA, seemed to miss the mark in his recent blog post about SOA Governance and Decision Rights. In that post, he said: if you focus on education, you can allow individual …
Also tagged: enterprise architecture, soa
msdn.com » Inside Architecture - Jul 8, 2008
In a prior post, I described a process modeling antipattern which I called "Blame the Computer." The feedback helped me to realize that there's a deeper problem that we need to consider: alignment of ownership between …
Also tagged: bpm
msdn.com » Inside Architecture - Jul 6, 2008
In a prior post, I described a process modeling antipattern which I called "Blame the Computer." The feedback helped me to realize that there's a deeper problem that we need to consider: alignment of ownership between …
Also tagged: bpm
msdn.com » Inside Architecture - Jun 17, 2008
I'm a big fan of use cases. Great for describing how software is used, and puts context around the use of functionality that helps software developers to create solutions that will actually fit into human …
Also tagged: analysis
msdn.com » Inside Architecture - Jun 9, 2008
Recently, Mike Walker posted a blog entry on the difference between Enterprise Architect and Solution Architect (sometimes called Application Architect). I think this is an interesting space, because I believe that …
Also tagged: enterprise architecture
msdn.com » Inside Architecture - May 30, 2008
Recently, Mike Walker posted a blog entry on the difference between Enterprise Architect and Solution Architect (sometimes called Application Architect). I think this is an interesting space, because I believe that …
Also tagged: enterprise architecture
msdn.com » Inside Architecture - May 22, 2008
We use process models for lots of things. One is simply to understand the processes we have and to analyze them looking for opportunities to improve. But in IT, we have another good reason: to better understand …
msdn.com » Inside Architecture - May 17, 2008
I'm going to suggest a minimal way to gather requirements, one that produces a (minimum) requirements document in an iterative and agile manner. A little background In the systems space, it is common to write up a …