by Dave McComb | Jul 22, 2014 | Data-Centric Architecture
Somewhere around 200 items seems to be the optimum number of interrelated things we can deal with at one time, when dealing with complex systems such as computer software. In 1956 George Miller wrote an article for the Psychological Review called “The magic number...
by Dave McComb | Jul 22, 2014 | Data-Centric Architecture
An Evaluation of Risk Factors in Large Systems Engineering Projects This article was originally published in the Journal of Information Systems Management, Volume 8, Number 1, Winter 1991. It is reprinted here by permission of the publisher: www.crcpress.com System...
by Dave McComb | Jul 22, 2014 | Data-Centric Architecture
Why can’t we deploy software as well we did fifty years ago? The way we build and deploy software is deplorable. The success rate of large software projects is well under 50%. Even when successful, the capital cost is hideous. In his famous “Mythical Man...
by Dave McComb | Jul 14, 2014 | Data-Centric Architecture
It’s our responsibility as architects to make sure our work is implemented. We’ve been dealing a lot lately with questions about what makes a good architecture, what should be in an architecture, what’s the difference between a technical architecture...
by Dave McComb | Jul 14, 2014 | Data-Centric Architecture
Event-driven architecture as the latest buzzword in the enterprise architecture space. If you’ve been reading the trade press lately, you no doubt have come across the term event-driven architecture as the latest buzzword in the enterprise architecture space. So you...
by Dave McComb | Jul 11, 2014 | Data-Centric Architecture
Those of us in the complex sale sector need to be aware that volume operations from adjacent marketplaces will soon enter ours. The December 2005 issue of the Harvard Business Review has excellent articles by two of my favorite business authors, Geoffrey Moore...
