Architecture Papers and Downloads
Architecture
Books List
Architect Skills Bibliography
(articles and papers)
Architect Training, Consulting
and Mentoring
Overview topics:
What: Architecture
How: Architecting
Who:
Architects
Why: Motivation
Where and When: Context
Role of the
Architect Columns
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Architect: What's in a name?
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Who's Accountable?
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Architect's Charter:
Complexity
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Quest for Great
Architects
Architecture Training
What
it Takes to be a Great Architect Class
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Chicago, IL,
April 24-26, 2007
Software
Architecture Class
- Palo Alto,
CA,
March 13-16, 2007
- Chicago, IL,
May 22-25, 2007
Enterprise
Architecture
Workshop
- Palo Alto,
CA
March 5-8, 2007
- Chicago, IL,
May 15-18, 2007
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Architect
Competency Development
Blogs, Essays and Websites
Each topic
area below is organized as follows: resource sites, essays/articles, and
blogs.
Architect Role and Skills: General
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Resources for Architects from Bredemeyer Consulting
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Architect's Linkblog: rich
set of links to items of interest to architects
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Ruth Malan's Traces in the Sand
Architecture Journal notes on architects architecting architecture
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Architect: What's in a name?
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Architect as the Ultimate Design Authority
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Quest for Great Architects
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Updating Clinger-Cohen Competencies for Enterprise Architecture
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Bredemeyer
Architect Competency Framework and Competency Elaborations
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TOGAF Architecture Skills Framework
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Ruth Malan's
Traces in the Sand
architects, architecting, architecture blog
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Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz's
It You Build it architecture blog
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Rob Daigneau's posts
What Does it Mean to be a Software Architect? - Part I on June 2,
2005,
What Does it Mean to be a Software Architect ? - Part II on July 22,
2006, and The
Hard Skills are the Soft Skills, posted by
on
his Design
Patterns for .Net
website on October 20, 2005.
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Ruth Malan's
blog post titled
What Distinguishes the Software Architect? on May 31, 2006
- Malan, Ruth,
Career Ladders: Architect and Engineer, posted to
A Trace in the Sand
Architecture Journal, April 26, 2006.
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Brenda
Michelson's blog post titled
IT Linchpin 2006: The (Business-Driven) Enterprise Architect,
January 8, 2006
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Marlene
Reiner's blog post titled
Enterprise Architecture Books, August 4, 2006
Architect Skills by Topic
Leadership, vision and teams
- The Grove,
Strategic Visioning
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Lominger Leadership
Architect
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Leadership training programs and
Architectural Leadership and Other Skills workshop from Bredemeyer
Consulting
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The Role of Enterprise Architecture Leaders, Gartner podcast, May 1,
2006
- George Ambler's
Practice of Leadership blog. See, for example,
Leadership Lessons from Geese, posted on George Ambler's
Leadership blog, July 7, 2006
- Abhishek Balaria's post on "Leaders
and Followers", May 10, 2006
- Carmine Coyote's
Slow Leadership
blog. See, for example,
Practicing Generosity, August 11, 2006
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Ruth Malan's blog post titled "What
Distinguishes the Software Architect?" dated May 31, 2006
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Ruth Malan's blog post titled "That
Vision Thing," dated October 26, 2006.
- Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz's post
Architect Soft Skills: Part II, Leadership on his IF YOU
BUILD IT ... Will they Come? blog on
Dr.Dobbs Portal,
August 7, 2006
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How to Build a Great Team, Jerry Useem,
Fortune, June 1, 2006
Strategy, innovation and competitive advantage
Organizational politics, networks of influence and persuasion
Consulting, facilitation and partnering
- Ruth Malan,
Soapbox on The
Tipping Point, 2006.
- Jeffrey Cufaude,
The Art of Facilitative Leadership: Maximizing Others’ Contributions,
The Systems Thinker® Newsletter, V15N10, 2004.
- Anecdote: Putting Stories to Work,
facilitation
thread, by Daryl.
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How to give Feedback, posted by Seth Godin, July 22, 2006
Technical topics, skills, architecture modeling
- See our Software
Architecture Links page and Papers and
Downloads page for a supply of resources!
- See also SOA
Links and Product
Platform/Software Product Lines Links
- Linkable Links
http://johnaho.com/links.htm
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Alan Inglis,
Chief Architect: EA blog and
Management
blog
- Sjaak Laan,
Vision of IT infrastructure,
architecture and security
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Jiri Ludvik,
Jiri's Notepad
- Malan, Ruth,
Modularity and what we can learn from Trek, posted to
A Trace in the Sand blog, June 20, 2006.
- Debasish Ghosh,
Application Failover using AOP
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Matt Welsh,
SEDA: An
Architecture for Highly Concurrent Server Applications
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Werner Vogels (Amazon CTO)
QCon presentation on
Availability and Consistency on the InfoQ website
Loose Coupling
Dependency Inversion
Inversion of
Control and Dependency Injection
Cohesion
Contracts and Protocol
Interfaces and Roles
Architecture Modeling and
Architecture Documentation
- Kelly, Frank,
Why Architecture Documentation Matters--Intent and Abstraction, June
15, 2006
- Malan, Ruth,
Architecture Sketches, posted to
A Trace in the Sand
Architecture Journal, August 9, 2007.
- Malan, Ruth,
Architecture Basics, posted to
A Trace in the Sand
Architecture Journal, August 2, 2007.
- Malan, Ruth,
Architecture Documentation Links, posted to
A Trace in the Sand
Architecture Journal, April 26, 2006.
- Malan, Ruth,
Architecture Documentation: Courage to Fly in the Face of Convention,
posted to A Trace in the Sand
blog, August 25, 2006.
Staying Current: Influence and Trend Watch
General
- ACM's weekly email news service gives a
broad-ranging scan of interesting tech developments and applications.
- MIT's Technology Review:
http://www.technologyreview.com/
Embedded Systems
Sun
Microsoft
Communications
and Voice over IP (VoIP)
Long Tail
Rails and Ruby
SOA:
Service-oriented Architecture
EDA: Event
Driven Architecture
Open Source
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