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Monthly Archives: September 2009
A conversation on ‘Service Management’
One of the really great parts of my job is the way casual conversations with colleagues result in finding something interesting. In this case it was about the challenges of ‘services’ not meaning as in ‘services’ in SOA, but as business services, delivering the way that business people recognize something as a joined up cohesive capability to complete a process across an enterprise. Part of the challenge is that as we move forward through dedicated …
Managing Identities, and Data – whose responsibility?
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post about people needing privacy, which generated some interest and comments. It roused a lot of interest because, as I suspected, the computer security side is reasonably understood and under control. This post builds on this discussion and looks how our privacy is being compromised in ways that we probably don’t even realise. At the weekend my son Jonathan was demonstrating some of the many features on …
Haussmannisation
This may come as a surprise from a Chief Technology Officer, but in my family I am not exactly seen as a handyman. When it comes to construction skills, I am more like the laugh of the town. My brother effortlessly builds entire kitchens and just for the fun takes care of the plumbing and electrical wiring too. Personally, I already get nervous when I watch a Billy bookcase kit getting unpacked. On the other …
Computers need Security; People need Privacy
I’ve been meaning to write about this for a while, following some sessions with various teams working on how government can make better use of technology to deliver their services to citizens. However, the same principle comes up pretty rapidly in similar conversations in a lot of different industries as we try to come to terms with our new ‘open’ online society. Mention doing things online – or moving elements of your business online – …
Writing better software faster
I am most happy to introduce you to my colleague Sander Hoogendoorn. He wrote this guest blog-item – and an accompanying white paper – about one of the biggest challenges in our profession: how to produce better solutions for the business in a faster way. In quite a pragmatic way he has put together an approach which has been proven many times in practice. This makes him not only a good writer and coach but …
SOA is not dead, but it is Transformed
I realise that I’m guilty of using the phrase ‘really understand’ twice in post titles in the last month and started to think the same way for this post too. The point I keep struggling with, is thinking of familiar, well-understood existing technology topics in a new context. Here is a quote from the well known business technology author Peter Fingar: “the big deal is, that cloud computing is a disruptive delivery model…it’s an economic, …
Cloud Illusions
How cloud computing changes service relationships
Top Industry Vendors give their views on Clouds
I kept an eye on a recent cloud event about cloud computing in New York in early August hoping that some signs of maturity might be appearing across the industry in terms of the approach to defining and implementing clouds. Sadly I didn’t see that, instead it seemed to be the place to see a lot of enthusiasts still working on permutations that fit their start-ups or products. That’s not to say there wasn’t good …
