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The Seven Deadly Sins of Enterprise Agile Adoption

Topics
Adopting Agile,
Delivering Value,
Scrum Master,
Introducing Agile,
Kanban,
Software Craftsmanship,
Governance,
Scrum,
Agile Techniques,
Agile in the Enterprise,
Lean,
Business,
Agile,
Lean Startup,
Enterprise Architecture,
Enterprise,
Agile2011

Are there repeated patterns of failure on Enterprise Agile Enablement efforts? Does success at the team level always result in success at the organization level? Sanjiv Augustine and Arlen Bankston discuss the Seven Deadly Sins that organizations repeatedly make so you can steer clear of them and benefit from a successful Enterprise Agile Adoption.

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Preview: 15th SPLC Conference on Software Product Lines

Topics
Domain Specific Languages,
Domain-Driven Design,
Methodologies,
Platforms,
Languages,
Governance,
Design,
Architecture,
Programming,
Reuse,
Model Driven Engineering,
Conferences,
Enterprise Architecture,
Architecture Documentation,
Architecture Analysis,
Reference Architectures,
Architecture Evaluation,
Architecture Management,
Software Factories,
Software Engineering,
Component Based Architecture

The International Software Product Line Conference (SPLC) is the most important event that covers the full range of Product Line Engineering in software-intensive products. Its 15th incarnation will take place in the Munich City Center from August 21st to August 26th.

OpenJDK to be Java SE 7 Reference Implementation, Bylaws Ratified by Oracle

Topics
Open JDK,
Open source Java,
Java,
JDK,
Languages,
Open Source,
Governance,
Programming,
Enterprise Architecture

The OpenJDK Community Bylaws have been ratified, with 70 votes in favour, no votes against, and nine abstentions. 61 of the votes in favour were from Oracle employees.

SOA Software Releases Atmosphere: an API Management Portal

Topics
SOAP,
Messaging,
SOA Platforms,
Web Services,
SOA,
SaaS,
API,
Governance,
Architecture,
Enterprise Architecture,
Cloud Computing,
Programming,
REST-*

SOA Software entered the API management portal market with their release of the Atmosphere portal. The Atmosphere platform ensures security, robustness and availability of enterprise APIs over the right range of interface types. In this article we delve into the reason behind the evolution from enterprise SOA and cloud governance to API management and other technical details around the offering.

Articles about Governance

Virtual Panel: Cloud Services Governance

Topics
SOA,
Governance,
Cloud Adoption,
Architecture,
Cloud Computing,
Repository,
Gateway,
Enterprise Architecture,
Services

Governance plays an indisputably important role in maintaining and guiding the implementation of an architectural vision. The advent of cloud computing has changed the architectural landscape affecting the needs and demands of existing governance programs. InfoQ presents a virtual panel discussion with six leading experts on the current state and future of cloud services governance.

Agile at the Office of Personnel Management

Topics
Casestudy,
Adopting Agile,
Governance,
Scrum,
Agile in the Enterprise,
Stories & Case Studies,
Enterprise Architecture,
Agile

In its attempts to modernize retirement claims processing the Office of Personnel Management had several versions of this project cancelled. The most recent of which used "requirements, design, implement, and test cycles to develop the system. During the testing phases, serious issues became evident". In trying again the director said that they weren't going to repeat the mistakes of the past.

Phil Abernathy on Agile Governance and Suncorp's Agile Transition

Topics
Agile in the Enterprise,
Governance,
Agile,
Enterprise Architecture

Phil Abernathy discusses the Sun Corp Agile journey - taking a 19000 person banking and insurance organization formed by the merger of two companies with over 4000 IT staff Agile from the top down. He talks about handling governance and change management, implementing Agile on mainframe projects and the impact of Agile in the heavily regulated financial industry in Australia.

Presentations about Governance

Deriving Agility from SOA and BPM - Ten Things that Separate the Winners from the Losers

Topics
Business Process Management,
Business Value,
SOA,
Governance,
Software Craftsmanship,
Business Analysis,
Business,
Business Architecture,
Monitoring,
Culture,
Business/IT Alignment,
Enterprise Architecture,
Architecture,
Agile,
Performance & Scalability,
SOA Symposium,
ROI

In this presentation from SOA Symposium 2010, Manas Deb and Clemens Utschig-Utschig discuss how to derive business agility from SOA and BPM, motivations for agility, developing and nurturing agility, influencers and dependencies, how SOA and BPM enable agility, pitfalls and recommendations for organizational culture, and pitfalls and recommendations for business and technical architectures.

DoD Architecture Approach to Common Vocabulary Driven Service Implementation

Topics
Deployment / Datacenter,
Governance,
SOA,
Architecture,
Infrastructure,
Enterprise Architecture

Dennis E. Wisnosky presents the path going from governance to deploying by illustrating how the Business Enterprise Common Core Metadata COI governs the Common Vocabulary used for the DoD Business Operations information exchanged between Core Business Missions by Defense Business Systems at the Enterprise Tier.

Project-Oriented SOA

Topics
QCon San Francisco 2009,
SOA,
Governance,
Project Management,
QCon,
Agile,
Architecture,
Enterprise Architecture,
Funding,
Conferences

Leo Shuster shows how to combine service architecture and lifecycle management, funding, SOA governance and metrics for an organization to be able to develop its projects and integrate them into an encompassing SOA initiative which is unfolding in the same time.

Interviews about Governance

Anne Thomas Manes on SOA, Governance and REST

Topics
SOAP,
Messaging,
Web Services,
Governance,
SOA,
REST,
SOA Appliance,
Architecture,
Enterprise Architecture,
Registry,
Repository,
UDDI

In this interview, recorded at QCon London, Anne Thomas Manes, research director at Burton Group, talks to Stefan Tilkov about the state of SOA, explains different ways of getting funding for SOA initiatives, the value of SOA governance and governance tools. Another topic covered is the applicability of REST to SOA, the need for a RESTful description language, and REST support in SOAP toolkits.