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What's Really Going to Make a Difference in Your Transformation - Organizational Change Mgmt.

Mike Walker

Oct 17, 20081 min read

What's Really Going to Make a Difference in Your Transformation - Organizational Change Mgmt.

Obviously, this whitepaper is used as a catalyst to drive services from IBM and I am not supporting that here. However, there is some...

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Mike Walker

Oct 15, 20081 min read

IEEE on Software Architecture Podcast

You can find all the information about this regular podcast here: http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/computingnow/onarchitecture...

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Mike Walker

Oct 13, 20081 min read

Architecture Journal 17 - Distributed Computing

Hot off the press the new Architecture Journal 17. The theme of this journal issue is Distributed Computing. You may be asking yourself,...

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Mike Walker

Oct 9, 20081 min read

Where the US Candidates Stand on Five Technology Issues

CIO.com wrote an insightful article summarizing the US Presidential Candidates stance on technology issues. I usually don't talk politics...

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Mike Walker

Oct 9, 20081 min read

Want more Oslo... Here's a sneak peek

We are less than T-3 weeks to PDC and there will be a lot more details on the new Oslo initiative. Below are some links to where the rich...

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Mike Walker

Oct 7, 20083 min read

SOA Software Announces Expanded SOA Governance for Microsoft .NET Framework

SOA Software today released an expanded version of it's popular SOA governance suite for a series of Microsoft technologies. SOA Software...

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Microsoft will soon release 'Windows Cloud' OS

Mike Walker

Oct 2, 20081 min read

Microsoft will soon release 'Windows Cloud' OS

This is going to be a relatively short post. Mostly just link love to Computer World. It's a high level article but defiantly worth the...

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Gartner Enterprise Architecture Summit 2008 - Day 2

Mike Walker

Sep 29, 20084 min read

Gartner Enterprise Architecture Summit 2008 - Day 2

I did observe that there was quite the drop-off between day 1 and day 2 for some reason. I am not sure if it was due to work pressures by...

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ArchiMate - The Emerging Architecture Modeling Standard?

Mike Walker

Sep 26, 20083 min read

ArchiMate - The Emerging Architecture Modeling Standard?

At the Gartner EA Summit in London it seemed like there was quite a bit of talk on the solution showcase floor regarding an architecture...

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Gartner Enterprise Architecture Summit 2008 - Day 1

Mike Walker

Sep 24, 20084 min read

Gartner Enterprise Architecture Summit 2008 - Day 1

Just so everyone knows, this is Gartner's London EA Summit event and not the North American event. It does seem a lot smaller than the...

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Gartner EA Summit - Emergence Enterprise Architecture Keynote

Mike Walker

Sep 23, 20083 min read

Gartner EA Summit - Emergence Enterprise Architecture Keynote

I wanted to give some feedback on some new thoughts from Gartner in their keynote on Emergence Architecture. Overall I thought it was a...

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Using the Enterprise Architecture Toolkit (EATK) to Capture Architecture Descriptions

Mike Walker

Sep 18, 20084 min read

Using the Enterprise Architecture Toolkit (EATK) to Capture Architecture Descriptions

I created tthe Enterprise Architecture Toolkit (EATK) to make Microsoft Word 2007 a first class citizen in the architecture description...

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Mike Walker

Sep 17, 20081 min read

The Lost Art of Informal Communication

James McGovern made some great points about informal communication in his post The Lost Art of Informal Communication. I think he makes...

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Mike Walker

Sep 17, 20081 min read

Microsoft Patterns and Practices Application Architecture Guide

I ran across an interesting post on J.D. Meier's Blog that describes the Patterns & Practices project called the Application Architecture...

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Mike Walker

Sep 15, 20081 min read

Hug a Developer or Architect Today, They need it....

It's time to show a little love to our fellow Architects / Developers / Project Managers as they do have a difficult job. Show your...

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Mike Walker

Sep 13, 20083 min read

What is an Architecture Style?

Recently, I have had discussions with folks at Microsoft about Architecture Styles. This term has been used in the IT industry for a very...

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Mike Walker

Sep 12, 20083 min read

US Law Makers to Regulate the Cloud?

Infoworld just published a great piece called Cloud computing may draw government action. The article goes into data privacy concerns...

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Mike Walker

Sep 11, 20081 min read

Oslo - a tool, a language, a repository

Douglas Purdy puts it best in his What is Oslo? post a few days ago, Oslo is a tool, a language and a repository. You are still probably...

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Mike Walker

Sep 11, 20082 min read

Updates - Where has Mike Walker Been?

Just wanted to give the readers of my blog a quick personal update. Some of you may of not iced that my postings have been a bit sparse...

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Mike Walker

Aug 27, 20081 min read

Architecture On-Demand Web Cast Series

The Microsoft Consulting Services Infrastructure Architects have setup a new blog that walks through and announces upcoming web casts...

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