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- SOA
- Topics
- Enterprise Architecture,
- Business
In this presentation, recorded at QCon London, Cap Gemini's Steve Jones explains his concept of a business service architecture. Topics covered include how to apply SOA to existing systems, the problems one runs into when SOA is driven by technology, and the structural and organizational impact of business-driven SOA.
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By Steve Jones
on Apr 14, 2008,
News about Business/IT Alignment
- Architecture
- Topics
- Funding,
- Enterprise Architecture,
- Leadership
As organizations continue to grow their IT investments (bought, borrowed, or built) and concepts like Business Process Management and Service Oriented Architecture become more common, the role of Enterprise Architecture (EA) has become more common. Recently, several people in the EA community have spoken about its current state.
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By Steven Robbins
on May 08, 2008,
- Architecture,
- SOA
- Topics
- Business Process Management,
- Business Process Modeling,
- Workflow / BPM
Although OMG is not scheduled to get to BPMN 2.0 until August/September timeframe, the initial announcements about its possible directions have caused a lot of activities on the Web.
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By Boris Lublinsky
on May 04, 2008,
Articles about Business/IT Alignment

- SOA
- Topics
- Enterprise Architecture,
- Governance
In this article, Gernot Starke introduces the concepts behind SOA Governance, how it relates to overall Corporate Governance and IT Governance, and how it should be applied both at design-time and at runtime. Gernot covers the key aspects that SOA Governance needs to address and explains the role governance tools.
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By Gernot Starke
on Nov 21, 2007,

- SOA
- Topics
- Governance
In this article, Wolfgang Keller explores the challenges in SOA adoption and discusses the commonalities and differences of SOA governance to overall IT governance. He discusses why SOA initiatives frequently get bogged down, and how the anchoring of SOA in an IT governance can help make SOA a success.
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By Wolfgang Keller
on Sep 10, 2007,
Interviews about Business/IT Alignment

- Agile
- Topics
- Customers & Requirements,
- Methodologies,
- Agile in the Enterprise
Called "the grandmother" of the agile methodologies, DSDM V1 was released in 1995. The methodology is owned and collaboratively developed by the members of the not-for profit DSDM Consortium, and until V4.2 was only available to members. But the recent V5 or "Atern" release is now publicly available. Director Hugh Ivory provided an overview at Agile2007.
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By Hugh Ivory
on Dec 19, 2007,

- SOA
- Topics
- Enterprise Architecture,
- Business
In this interview, recorded at QCon London, Stefan Tilkov talks to Cap Gemini's Steve Jones about his concept of a business service architecture. Topics covered include how to apply SOA to existing systems, the problems one runs into when SOA is driven by technology, and the structural and organizational impact of business-driven SOA.
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By Steve Jones
on Sep 26, 2007,
Presentations about Business/IT Alignment

- SOA
- Topics
- Funding,
- Business
In this presentation, recorded at QCon, Burton Group research director Anne Thomas Manes talks about how to make the business case for SOA. Her talk covers explaining SOA to non-technical business people, various approaches for selling SOA to management and gaining funding for SOA investments.
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By Anne Thomas Manes
on Feb 19, 2008,

- Agile
- Topics
- Customers & Requirements,
- Delivering Value,
- Stories & Case Studies
Last year Agile coach Alexia Bowers walked a mile in a project customer's shoes, and told us how it felt in this Agile2006 Leadership Summit presentation. She stressed the need to strive for creative solutions instead of simply cutting scope.
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By Alexia Bowers
on Oct 30, 2007,
Books about Business/IT Alignment

- Agile
- Topics
- Unit Testing,
- Software Testing,
- Methodologies,
- Agile Techniques,
- Agile in the Enterprise
This book guides the reader on crafting their own agile adoption strategy focused on their business values and environment. This strategy is then directly tied to patterns of agile practice adoption that describe how many teams have successfully (and unsuccessfully) adopted them. Business values are also a component of these patterns so your adoption is always focused on addressing your particular environment.
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By Amr Elssamadisy
on Mar 23, 2007,