http://www.lostechies.com/blogs/jimmy_bogard/archive/2010/08/24/an-effective-testing-strategy.aspx "On a recent large project, we had a goal early on that we didn’t want to have a lot of QA folks manually testing our software. Finding bugs through manual testing is incredibly time consuming...
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An effective testing strategy
Saturday, August 28 2010 - Tidbits
Relationship Management at the Operational Level in Outsourcing
Saturday, August 28 2010 - Tidbits
http://www.springerlink.com/content/x37081766tk88120/ "Abstract Research suggests that achievement of a successful outsourcing relationship requires a tremendous amount of detailed management. In this paper we draw on relationship theory to understand the management practices of a particular outsourcing...
The Mission, Capabilities, and Business Output of Enterprise Architecture
Tuesday, August 17 2010 - Tidbits
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/nickmalik/archive/2010/08/10/the-mission-capabilities-and-business-output-of-enterprise-architecture.aspx "In this post, I describe the capabilities needed by an EA team in order to fulfill the mission that I outlined above. Clearly, if you disagree with the mission statement...
A reasonable canonical definition of Enterprise Architecture
Monday, August 16 2010 - Tidbits
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/nickmalik/archive/2010/08/08/a-reasonable-canonical-definition-of-enterprise-architecture.aspx "Clearly we want one. A thread on LinkedIn a couple of months ago attempted to define the value of EA, and produced a tirade of over 1,300 entries! But while individuals were busy...
Modern SOA Methodology and SOA Adoption Using Agile Practices (Part I)
Sunday, August 15 2010 - Tidbits
http://www.soamag.com/I42/0810-2.php "There is widespread debate about the possibility of agile and SOA coexisting in an enterprise. One is about rolling up your sleeves and programming for today’s needs while the other is about big picture and reusable services for both today and the future...
How to Avoid Being the Asshole Architect
Monday, August 09 2010 - Tidbits
http://www.lessonsoffailure.com/developers/avoid-asshole-architect/ "Recently, I was the happy recipient of some very condescending “advice” from the architecture group of a client. The tone, quality and delivery of the information completely overwhelmed the actual message (some of which...
16 Enterprise Architecture Strategies Learned The Hard Way
Wednesday, July 28 2010 - Tidbits
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/architectsrule/archive/2010/07/28/16-enterprise-architecture-strategies-learned-the-hard-way.aspx "Here is our hard-earned list of strategies, observations, insights and lessons learned over a collective 55+ years of EA and IT strategy work with over 100 companies. See what...
Architectural Governance by Principles
Sunday, July 25 2010 - Tidbits
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/architectsrule/archive/2010/07/25/architectural-governance-by-principles.aspx "An enterprise architecture is rarely if ever successfully implemented in its entirety in a single project; it is generally implemented incrementally, as a succession of individual business solution...
The over-reaction architecture governance anti-pattern
Saturday, July 24 2010 - Tidbits
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/architectsrule/archive/2010/07/23/the-over-reaction-architecture-governance-anti-pattern.aspx "There are a couple of avoidable behaviors that architects sometimes adopt that generally annoy project teams. "...
Evolving Architectures – Part IV – Design mechanics
Tuesday, July 20 2010 - Tidbits
http://arnon.me/2010/07/evolving-architectures-part-iv-design-mechanics/ "If we want to evolve architectures or change an existing architecture in general, for that matter, it is important to understand design mechanics. I recently attended a seminar with Kent Beck that talked about “responsive...




