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Dan Pritchett on Architecture at eBay

Community
Architecture
Topics
Transactions Processing,
Performance & Scalability,
Enterprise Architecture,
Database Design

Dan Pritchett gives us an inside look into the decisions behind on of the largest scale architectures in the world: eBay. In explaining how the scale of eBay turns simple requirements a complex engineering problem, he walks us through the technical and organizational challenges of managing eBay's architecture.

Service Oriented Architecture Governance: The Basics

Community
SOA
Topics
Governance

In this article, MomentumSI's Ed Vazquez explains the basics of SOA governance, with an explicit focus on the need for a holistic SOA governance model, shared governance principles and the difference between (and the need for both) tactical and strategic efforts.

A Hard Look at the Organizational Implications of BPM

Community
SOA
Topics
Business Process Management

This article examines the conceptual BPM project from the following perspectives: what is involved to deliver the project, what are its enablers and what are its total costs of ownership (TCO). Before investments are made in reengineering processes and deploying BPM solutions, businesses need to commit to making the organizational changes necessary to allow realization of any lasting value.

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The State of Enterprise Architecture

Community
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.

Article: Roles in SOA Governance

Community
SOA
Topics
Governance

In this article Stefan Tilkov, innoQ SOA consultant and InfoQ SOA Community editor, introduces a potential set of roles for successful SOA Governance. He describes the individual roles as well as the tasks assigned to each independent of any tool, vendor, or technology.

Interview: Linda Rising on Collaboration, Bonobos and the Brain

Community
Agile
Topics
Collaboration,
Change,
Teamwork

Seasoned practitioners packed a small room at Agile2006 to hear Linda Rising's "Are Agilists the Bonobos of the Software Community?" where she shared her thoughts on the evolutionary roots of teamwork. In this InfoQ interview, Linda talked with editor Deborah Hartmann about how writing her book "Fearless Change" led her to read on the science of the human brain and the social rituals of apes.

Holacracy - The Self-Organizing Enterprise

Community
Agile
Topics
Methodologies,
Agile in the Enterprise,
Leadership

The fit between Agile teams and traditional enterprises can be challenging. Agile may highlight or exacerbate pre-existent dysfunctions, in areas a project manager may not be well-placed to address, so those involved in Agile roll-outs are thinking about alternate ways to organize the enterprise. Holacracy, created at Ternary Software, suggests that self-organization can extend outside IT.

"Agile Practice" Patterns Wiki is Up

Community
Agile
Topics
Collaboration,
Agile Techniques

At XP2006, Amr Elssamadisy announced a new wiki site for collecting Agile Practice Patterns. Well, it's up and ready to go, already loaded with patterns from ChiliPlop 2006 and XP 2006 conferences.