Articles Archive for October 2008

SOA from the Registrar’s Perspective SOA from the Registrar’s Perspective
Posted in Enterprise Architecture, JimPhelps, Work on 30 October 2008

Just had a hallway (okay, exhibit floor conversation) with Tom Black of Stanford University.  They have ideas on embedded enrollment functions in several places: inside their LMS, available via iPhone applications and elsewhere.  They would expose those enrollment functions as services then write to those services.  Interesting.  We also talked about orchestrating a flow, click [...]

CG Leaders Meeting @ EDUCAUSE 2008
Posted in JimPhelps, Work on 28 October 2008

Introductions of people.  A lot of interesting constituent groups that I didn’t realize existed:  I.T. Metrics, Learning Space Design.  http://www.educause.edu/groups
Cynthia Golden - VP for EDUCAUSE is doing the EDUCAUSE update.
There was a new President last year.  They have been doing a lot of change management over the past year.  There is a [...]

Gartner Webinar: Selling Key Stakeholders on Enterprise Architecture Gartner Webinar: Selling Key Stakeholders on Enterprise Architecture
Posted in Enterprise Architecture, IT Architecture, Work on 15 October 2008

Robert Handler of Gartner is presenting.
This is one of seven Key Initiatives for Enterprise Architecture.
“Failure to… change the behavior of others leads to failure itself”.  You must understand the people aspects and you must sell EA to succeed.
They had 600+ clients take a maturity survey to see where they are at in the area of [...]

Riding East with Cranes Riding East with Cranes
Posted in Featured, Headline, JimPhelps, Life in Madison on 7 October 2008

I was riding on a late Summer evening in September and this is a meditation upon a few minutes in that ride.
If you are not familiar with the hills and valleys of Southwestern Wisconsin, let me describe them.  These are old mountains, the Driftless, worn down over the aeons by rain and snow. [...]