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Entries from November 2008

Ahh Shucks, SOA Is A Failure

November 12th, 2008 · 21 Comments

Yea, I feel your pain. So much time effort and money put into SOA and it is a complete a dismal failure. Sorry to have misled you. Daryl Plummer and I are deep in depression. Sucks to be us. Oh well here’s some free advice to help you get by. In fact I will make [...]

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Tags: SOA Governance

Don’t Ask Don’t Tell

November 11th, 2008 · 1 Comment

 
And no I don’t mean the US Armed forces mandate on homosexuality, I mean something more related to IT and specificially how many CIO’s and IT governance policies are enacted and enforced. 
 
I just attended a compelling presentation delivered by Tom “Obi Wan” Austin, entitled, “Exploiting Consumerisation, Technology Democratization and User Responsibility”. Oh snap. In 45 [...]

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MF + MT = MFT —– Both Elements Are Equally Important

November 6th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Today I had a conversation with a good colleague (Bill Ho from Biscom) and we got into the idea of governance as it relates to MFT. Now I stumble on governance because of the hype (heck I use it no less than 15 times on this blog alone) but the idea of the lifecycle of [...]

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1st Update From Software AG’s Innovation World

November 3rd, 2008 · 1 Comment

From beautiful Miami, where it took me a whole 39 minutes to fly down, but the plane was delayed 4 hours, Software AG’s annual innovation world kicked off with its CIO Summit. I was asked to moderate a panel of CIOs and it was a great discussion. Here are some interesting tidbits from the morning [...]

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Tags: SOA Governance