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Sam Lowe's blog on Enterprise IT: April 2006

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Comment-link {margin-left:.6em;}. Sam Lowe's blog on Enterprise IT. Saturday, April 15, 2006. Tending to the Enterprise Garden ? You may have seen some of the recent questioning of the analogy of the construction industry. That's often been used in the past to describe various tasks in IT. Now of course software development is different from the wider world of Enterprise IT ( Enterprise Architecture is not Software Architecture. Technorati Tags: Enterprise IT. Posted by Sam Lowe at 10:11 pm. The opinions...

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Sam Lowe's blog on Enterprise IT: July 2005

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Comment-link {margin-left:.6em;}. Sam Lowe's blog on Enterprise IT. Saturday, July 30, 2005. What are the Real Issues in Making or Breaking Enterprise SOAs? The enormous amount of coverage in the press about Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) implies that that it seems to be generally considered a good thing. A useful approach. And indeed it is probably fair to say that it is moving towards becoming a best-practice way to plan, design, develop, implement and operate Enterprise IS / IT. The real inhibito...

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Sam Lowe's blog on Enterprise IT: August 2005

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Comment-link {margin-left:.6em;}. Sam Lowe's blog on Enterprise IT. Wednesday, August 24, 2005. One Reason Why SAP's ESA Proposition May be a Healthy Step Forward. The point here is that the technology, even if it is created with an architectural approach (e.g. SOA) in mind, will not make that architectural approach happen. It's refreshing to see that coming from a software vendor that is so connected within so many of the world's big Enterprises. Technorati Tags: enterprise architecture. I was talking w...

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Sam Lowe's blog on Enterprise IT: November 2005

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Comment-link {margin-left:.6em;}. Sam Lowe's blog on Enterprise IT. Wednesday, November 16, 2005. The Project View versus The Enterprise View. Project view and Enterprise view - Must we always fight? There is a long-standing struggle between those who throw their lot in with a project or a programme as a pragmatic vehicle ‘which gets things done’, and those who align themselves with some larger enterprise objectives claiming that they have the bigger picture in mind. And the service to the business relie...

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Sam Lowe's blog on Enterprise IT: May 2006

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Comment-link {margin-left:.6em;}. Sam Lowe's blog on Enterprise IT. Sunday, May 21, 2006. What can ‘Agile’ tell us about how Business and IT could work together better? I blogged recently about the need for joint collaborative business-IT teams. In the early phases of business change or business transformation exercises. Anyone who's had exposure to IT software development will recognise similarities in the criticisms I made about current dysfunctional approaches to the criticisms. Of course in the softw...

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Sam Lowe's blog on Enterprise IT: March 2006

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Comment-link {margin-left:.6em;}. Sam Lowe's blog on Enterprise IT. Monday, March 20, 2006. My colleague Nigel Green has started a new blog Services Fabric. To discuss where service orientation and event centric concepts might be going. Should be very good. Posted by Sam Lowe at 8:48 pm. Observations, thoughts and opinions on Enterprise IT and IS Strategy and Emerging Enterprise Technology Trends. The opinions expressed here represent Sam's own views and not those of his current or prior employer(s).

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Sam Lowe's blog on Enterprise IT: January 2006

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Comment-link {margin-left:.6em;}. Sam Lowe's blog on Enterprise IT. Sunday, January 08, 2006. Running IT Departments Like Businesses . what does that actually mean? But what does ‘IT departments running like businesses’ actually mean ? The structure I’ve found useful in the past is to start by looking for the ‘value chain’ of the IT department? How do they manage delivery of their commitments, the relative risk associated with each, and the quality of each? There’s no way to explore all of these aspects ...