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July 23, 2008

July 9, 2008 10 Reasons Change is an Antipattern
Embrace change, then stab it in the back
July 5, 2008 Strategy for the Irretrievably Pragmatic
It's like the future, but yesterday
June 24, 2008 The ABC of the ESB
SOA what you gonna do about it?
June 14, 2008 Magnificence in the Mundane
Making friends is easy; keeping them is harder
June 5, 2008 The Interview - Part One
With regret.. Sir Alan.. you're fired
May 16, 2008 Change Steps
It's not the journey, it's the destination, stupid
April 28, 2008 Scalability
Onwards and upwards
April 26, 2008 The Fallacies of Agile Computing
Strong like Bull, Agile like Weasel
March 21, 2008 What would Scooby do?
Beware the box of puppies
March 11, 2008 The Retep Principle
Crossing the chasm
February 12, 2008 Foundations
Taking the sting out of strategy
January 30, 2008 The Analysis Business
Requirements that will still respect you in the morning
January 16, 2008 The Nature Of Functionality
Rescuing software quality from the burning building
January 15, 2008 Dijkstra's Shortest Path Calculator
An interactive exploration of the famous Dijkstra algorithm
January 3, 2008 Measuring Architecture
It's what you've got and what you do with it that counts
December 11, 2007 The Trouble with Transformations
Thinking big when you should just be thinking
November 29, 2007 Reality Street ain't got no Vision
A Strategy Rejoinder to The Death of Architecture
November 26, 2007 The Governance Apparition
Just process in consultant's clothing
November 16, 2007 The Death of Architecture
Strategy and the Buddhist Time Illusion
October 18, 2007 A Loose Coupling Strategy
Getting things done when you're only an architect*
October 8, 2007 Anger Management and the Enterprise Design Debt
Mad, bad and dangerous to owe
October 3, 2007 Build or Buy. Or Customise and Confuse
Meaningful Application Management Policies
September 29, 2007 The Requirements Delusion
If you want respect from your business, stop meeting their requirements
September 19, 2007 The 'Business Alignment' Fallacy
Don't say it, don't need it, don't do it
September 19, 2007 SOA Myth and Mystery
A few home-truths toward avoiding service oriented anarchy
August 31, 2007 Fractal Amplification - Part 1
Coding, most of it anyway, is encoding
August 15, 2007 No C in Teamwork
Taking one for the team
August 14, 2007 Kill Your Children
The fiction of software
August 7, 2007 Managing People
From the heart, not the book
August 1, 2007 System Qualities
The artist formerly known as non-functional requirements
July 18, 2007 Hold on a tick
Delays and the user experience
July 4, 2007 Megaprojects
Big is bad, but often manageable
July 1, 2007 Interface Catalogue
Standard Artefacts - Capturing interfaces between applications
June 27, 2007 SBA III - Space-based Archetypes
Part 3 of 3: Patterns from inner space
June 25, 2007 SBA II - Space-based Agility
Part 2 of 3: The space between technology and business
June 6, 2007 SBA I - Space-based Allegory
Part 1 of 3: Becoming a spaceman
May 28, 2007 The Little Language
A brief word about domain-specific languages
May 23, 2007 Doing it right can mean doing it wrong
Relax. Good code comes to those who wait.
May 1, 2007 Lispians
Get your kaftan, we're talking Lisp
April 21, 2007 The Idiom and the Idiot
If the hat fits
April 14, 2007 Outsourcing we will go
If it's core, it's yours. Fix it, don't export it.
April 12, 2007 Methodologies Suck
Results or process. Ay, there's the rub
April 10, 2007 The engineer that wasn't there
Why It's Worth Reading The Old Farts Some Time
April 5, 2007 Are You Sitting Comfortably?
I Wanna Tell You a Story
April 1, 2007 Seeing the Spoon
It's time to take the red pill
January 10, 2007 Links
The obligatory links page
January 1, 2007 About julianbrowne.com ...
The Site. Me. Latest News.