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The Role of the Architect and More on The Role and Skills

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Enterprise Architecture

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EA Links

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Enterprise Architecture Services

Enterprise Architecture Workshop (4-day)
- Chicago, IL, July 19-22, 2010

Architecture Training

Software Architecture Class

- Boston, MA, November 8-11, 2010

What it Takes to be a Great Architect Class
 

Architecture Overview Seminar

Architecture Requirements Workshop

UML and Software Architecture

Architecture Program Management Services

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Software Architecture, Architects and Architecting

Software architecture is getting a lot of attention. Is it just the silver bullet du jour? We think not. It surely is critical to today's business success, yet it requires technical, business and organizational talents and skills that warrant their own path of career development, education, and research.

This site organizes a variety of resources to help enterprise architects and software architects deepen and expand their understanding of architecture and the role of the architect.

Announcements

News

Our latest Report is published: The Art of Change: Fractal and Emergent

ESI and Bredemeyer

Bredemeyer Consulting is pleased to announce that the Embedded Systems Institute will be offering our Software Architecture, Role of the Architect, and Enterprise Architecture Workshops in The Netherlands (these will be taught by Bredemeyer, but included in the ESI portfolio of offerings). The Embedded Systems Institute is a premier research and competency development institute with an emphasis on systems architecture, and we are proud to partner with them.

The Open Group IT Architect Certification Program  Recognizes the Visual Architecting Process: Bredemeyer Consulting's Visual Architecting Process (VAP) is one of the architecture methods recognized by The Open Group; see http://www.opengroup.org/itac/cert/methods.tpl?CALLER=index.tpl  (2006)

Publications

• New!  Our latest report is now ready for download free from the Cutter Consortium site: "The Art of Change: Fractal and Emergent," by Ruth Malan and Dana Bredemeyer, Cutter Consortium Enterprise Architecture Executive Report, Vol. 13, No. 5, 2010 http://www.cutter.com/offers/artofchange.html. See synopsis.

• A paper on innovation and agile architecture by Ruth Malan and Dana Bredemeyer, titled "Getting Past "But...": Finding Opportunity and Making It Happen." Cutter Consortium's August 2008 Enterprise Architecture Executive Report. You can download a complimentary copy from http://www.cutter.com/offers/findopportunity.html. See synopsis.

• Ruth Malan and Dana Bredemeyer, "Enterprise Architecture as Strategic Differentiator," Enterprise Architecture Executive Report, Cutter Consortium, June 2005. You can download a complimentary copy from http://www.cutter.com/offers/strategic.html

• Dana Bredemeyer and Ruth Malan, "What it Takes to be a Great Enterprise Architect," Cutter Consortium's Enterprise Architecture Executive Report, August 2004.  Cutter is running a promotion, and you can download this issue free at http://www.cutter.com/offers/greatarchitect.html. 
  This report is also useful for solution or platform architects, as well as software architects.  

• Ruth Malan and Dana Bredemeyer are working on the Software Architecture Action Guide book. See Table of Contents to download drafts of chapters. Join our mailing list to receive updates.

Global

Enterprise Architects: Join the CAEAP or Center for the Advancement of the EA Profession.

LinkedIn Group for Bredemeyer Workshop Alumni: If you are an "alum," it would be great if you'd join the group (please mention which class you took on your request to join).

Architect Job Postings (See More Detail)

This web site attracts over 1500 visitors per day, so if you are looking to hire an architect, chances are good that the person you are looking for is stopping by our site from time to time! Send us your architect job announcements and we'll add them to this page. Please email your request and text for the architect job posting to us, and we will add it to the Architect Job Opportunities page. New job postings added 5/8/10.
 

New Software Architecture Book

George Fairbanks book, titled Just Enough Software Architecture, is out in eBook form, and will shortly be available in bookstores. <8/7/10>

USA

Upcoming Architecture Events

Here is the current open enrollment schedule:

• Software Architecture Workshop: 
  - Düsseldorf, Germany, September 13-16, 2010

  - Eindhoven, The Netherlands, October 4-7, 2010 [only 2 spaces left]

  - Boston, MA, November 8-11, 2010 (enroll now for early enrollment discount)

• Enterprise Architecture Workshop: 

  - Chicago, IL, July 19-22, 2010

  - we are working with the schedule for Q3/4 and hope to provide the location/date for the next EA workshop soon.

Conferences

• European Conference on Software Architecture, 23 August in Copenhagen

• SATURN 2010: May 17-21, 2010, Minneapolis, MN. Early registration ends April 16th.
  - Ruth Malan presented a tutorial titled The Art of Drawing People In exploring the role of visualization in software development given that, well, software is developed by and for humans, introducing all kinds of difficulties that visuals, pictures--sketches, graphic brainstorming templates, models--are well suited to addressing. 
   

• Ruth Malan gave a presentation titled Picture IT: The Art of Drawing People In at the CAEAP Summit on June 20, 2009. See
  - the overview and script for the presentation, and
  - the video of the presentation (on Vimeo). [Just refresh the page if it gives you a "page not available" error.]

Other

• Indy EA User Group, July 14, 2010

Forthcoming Books

• Software Architecture Action Guide, by Ruth Malan and Dana Bredemeyer, forthcoming. See Table of Contents to download drafts of chapters. Join our mailing list to receive updates.

Recommended Web Stops

• Microsoft's Application Architecture Guide

• Gerrit Muller's Gaudi Architecture project site has remarkable depth and coverage of their system architecture papers and training material on the site http://www.gaudisite.nl

• Ruth Malan's architects/architecting/architecture notes

Site Update History

• Added Core Concepts and Central Concerns resource page <8/5/10>
• Update Project Failures page <7/24/10>
• Added Software Architecture Visualization and Code Visualization Resources <7/16/09> Updated <1/9/10>
• Added Architecture Principles: Definitions and links <3/24/09> Updated <8/4/10>
• see Site Update Log for the log of updates made from the the time of the site launch in 1999.

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