Is your organisation intelligent? What makes an organisation smart? What makes them dumb? We all know that what intelligent people are like and it's not necessarily linked to IQ! It's more about their ability to deal with complexity and being able to learn from their mistakes - if they don't we might call them stupid! The same can apply to organisations.
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Steve Cook, Principal Architect in the Microsoft Visual Studio Team tells me all about Microsoft's involvement in the Object Management Group and his desire to get UML right this time around!
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Andy Hopkirk is a legend in government circles for his unstinting leadership in driving interoperability initiatives like the e-Government Integration Framework (e-GIF)through his work at the National Computing Centre (NCC) here in the UK!
Besides this, he's got great hair and a fantastic beard that makes me think I'm talking to a professor out of some Heath Robinson picture!
Andy presented at AIC on the need for arhitects to stand up and be counted and I got time with himto explore this and other stuff a little further.
For more info on Architect Insight 2010, including presentation slides and videos go to www.microsoft.com/uk/aic2010
"The Internet was born without an identity". -Kim Cameron.
With the growing interest in "cloud computing", the subject of Identity is moving into the limelight. Kim Cameron is a legend in the identity architecture and engineering space. He is currently the chief architect for Microsoft's identity platform and a key contributor to the field at large.
For more info on Architect Insight 2010, including presentation slides and videos go to www.microsoft.com/uk/aic2010
10 years of .NET and 10 years of .NET Web Services! Well, perhaps this was not mark the starting point of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) but the last decade has seen an unpresidented period where SOA has reigned supreme at top of the hype cycle! David Sprott, CEO, CBDI-Forum has dedicated his time to providing SOA guidance to Industry.
So what does he make of all this cloud stuff? Does 'cloud now trump SOA? I got the chance to ask david this and other stuff backstage at Architect Insight.
For more info on Architect Insight 2010, including presentation slides and videos go to www.microsoft.com/uk/aic2010