All right, now I’m trying to write the probably shortest post ever published in the codecentric blog … 
So, what’s it about?
I just wanted to point out for those who do not know yet that Dana Bredemeyer will conduct his well-known Software Architecture Workshop at codecentric from Sep-13-2010 to Sep-16-2010. Dana haven’t had an open enrollment for this workshop in Germany for almost 10 years and from all I’ve heard about it this will be a great course. So, if you are interested in that workshop and do not want to travel to the United States for that you might want to take a look at http://www.meettheexperts.de/software-architecture.
Also, I wanted to mention our “Meet the Experts” on Sep-17-2010. “New challenges in architecture today” will be the topic. Five well-known speakers, including Dana Bredemeyer, Dr. Gernot Starke and Prof. Dr. Heinz Züllighoven will share their ideas in insights with you. And, as always there will be a lot of time for discussions, networking, open space for your questions, great catering, and so on. So, if that sounds interesting for you, just have a look at http://www.meettheexperts.de/meettheexperts-architektur.
Okay, that’s all I wanted to talk about. I think those sessions will be great stuff, I will be there for sure. And if you will be there too, I’ll be glad to meet you … and if not, maybe we’ll meet some other time …
Just a thought …
A few days I read the following citation:
“Perfection is reached not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away.” (A. Saint-Exupéry)
I thought about it for a while and from my perspective there is a lot of truth and wisdom in this short sentence. But then I started thinking about IT …
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Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) is an important issue for most enterprises, not only the big ones. But its implementation still bears a lot of risks and the results are often way beyond the initial expectations.
Dr. Ingo Schrewe from incowia GmbH and I wrote an article how agility can help to reduce risk and optimise the results when implementing an EAM. The article was published within the scope of an EAM online special by SIGS-DATACOM and can be downloaded here: http://www.sigs.de/publications/os/2010/EAM/friedrichsen_schrewe_OS_EAM_10.pdf (available in german language only)
Ingo Schrewe and I plan to continue this article by writing some more articles that provide practical guidelines, hints and examples how to establish an agile EAM … whenever we will find the time to write those articles …
Meanwhile, there is a debate for a long time whether architecture and design are the same thing or not. The advocates of the “both are the same” thesis say that architecture is basically the first stage of design, while the opponents of this thesis claim that architecture and design are completely different tasks that just share some more or less fuzzy line of contact. So, who the heck is right? (read more…)
This is a reflection of the meet the experts – architecture that took place at codecentric in Solingen at November-27-2009.
Since the whole event including all talks was held completly in german an english version of this reflection would probably not be very expedient. Thus I decided not to translate this announcement.
You can read the full version of the reflection if you switch the language to german (by clicking on the german flag in the upper left corner of this page).
Beyond that we will – of course – carry on providing an english version of our blog entries.
This post shall sum up the results from our fruitful discussion on friday evenig. The idea for the open space discussion was sparked by Stefan Zörner who talked about modularity and what happens when you have no control over modularity. This post will not try to repeat the discussion but merely conserve the results:
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