Architecture Papers and Downloads
Architecture Books List
Architect Skills Bibliography (articles and papers)
Architect Training, Consulting and Mentoring
Overview topics:
Role of the Architect Columns
- Architect: What's in a name?
- Architect's Charter: Complexity
Architecture Training
What it Takes to be a Great Architect Class
- Eindhoven, The Netherlands, Jun 27-30, 2011
- Johannesburg, South Africa, August 22-25, 2011
- Orlando, FL, Oct 18-21, 2011
Enterprise Architecture Workshop
- Chicago, IL, Jul 11-14, 2011
- Chicago, IL, Nov 29-Dec 2, 2011
Blogs, Essays and Websites
Each topic area below is organized as follows: resource sites, essays/articles, and blogs.
Architect Role and Skills: General
- Resources for Architects from Bredemeyer Consulting
- Architect's Linkblog: rich set of links to items of interest to architects
- Ruth Malan's Traces in the Sand Architecture Journal notes on architects architecting architecture
- Ruth Malan's
trace in the sand,
architecture journal (with access
by
topic) and
Trace in the Sand blog
- Architect: What's in a name?
- Architect as the Ultimate Design Authority
- Quest for Great Architects
- Updating Clinger-Cohen Competencies for Enterprise Architecture
- Bredemeyer Architect Competency Framework and Competency Elaborations
- TOGAF Architecture Skills Framework
- Ruth Malan's Traces in the Sand architects, architecting, architecture blog
- Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz's
It You Build it architecture blog
- Rob Daigneau's posts What Does it Mean to be a Software Architect? - Part I on June 2, 2005, What Does it Mean to be a Software Architect ? - Part II on July 22, 2006, and The Hard Skills are the Soft Skills, posted by on his Design Patterns for .Net website on October 20, 2005.
- Ruth Malan's blog post titled What Distinguishes the Software Architect? on May 31, 2006
- Malan, Ruth, Career Ladders: Architect and Engineer, posted to A Trace in the Sand Architecture Journal, April 26, 2006.
- Brenda Michelson's blog post titled IT Linchpin 2006: The (Business-Driven) Enterprise Architect, January 8, 2006
- Marlene Reiner's blog post titled Enterprise Architecture Books, August 4, 2006
Architect Skills by Topic
Leadership, vision and teams- The Grove, Strategic Visioning
- Lominger Leadership Architect
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Leadership training programs and
Architectural Leadership and Other Skills workshop from Bredemeyer
Consulting
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The Role of Enterprise Architecture Leaders, Gartner podcast, May 1,
2006
- George Ambler's Practice of Leadership blog. See, for example, Leadership Lessons from Geese, posted on George Ambler's Leadership blog, July 7, 2006
- Abhishek Balaria's post on "Leaders and Followers", May 10, 2006
- Carmine Coyote's Slow Leadership blog. See, for example, Practicing Generosity, August 11, 2006
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Ruth Malan's blog post titled "What Distinguishes the Software Architect?" dated May 31, 2006
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Ruth Malan's blog post titled "That Vision Thing," dated October 26, 2006.
- Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz's post
Architect Soft Skills: Part II, Leadership on his IF YOU
BUILD IT ... Will they Come? blog on
Dr.Dobbs Portal,
August 7, 2006
- How to Build a Great Team, Jerry Useem, Fortune, June 1, 2006
Strategy, innovation and competitive advantage
- CIO Insight
- Harvard Business Review
- Bredemeyer Consulting: Architecture Strategy
- Business Process Trend's
Strategy and Architecture
- Fortune's Innovation Forum
- Freakonomics blog
- Charlie Alfred's Value Modeling blog
- Innovation Weblog by Chuck Frey
- Innoblog, Innosight's Innovation blog
- Irving Wladawsky-Berger's Technology and Strategy and Innovation blog themes
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Tom Hawes Competitive Intelligence and Strategy blog
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Innovation Happens
Elsewhere: Open Source as Business Strategy, online book by Ron
Goldman and Richard Gabriel
- Driving the competition crazy posted by Guy Kawasaki
- Top Ten Tips for Preventing Innovation, by Tyner Blain, March 6th, 2006
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Five Great Innovation Myths posted by Mike McKinney
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Clayton Christensen Takes a Bite Out of Apple, Innoblog post by Cheryl Riley, January 12, 2006
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Irving Wladawsky-Berger's Changing Nature of Strategy blog post
Organizational politics, networks of influence and persuasion
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Presentation Design
case studies from Duarte Design
- Garr Reynold, Presentation Tips
- Guila Muir,
All Presenting is
Persuasion
- Garr Reynold's Presentation Zen blog - highly recommended!
- Dick Hardt's
presentation on
Identity 2.0 demonstrates effective visuals, showing less is more when
it comes to striking slide content!
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Bill Simser's blog post titled "The Lighter side of being an Architect" dated July 13, 2006
Consulting, facilitation and partnering
- Ruth Malan, Soapbox on The Tipping Point, 2006.
- Jeffrey Cufaude,
The Art of Facilitative Leadership: Maximizing Others’ Contributions,
The Systems Thinker® Newsletter, V15N10, 2004.
- Anecdote: Putting Stories to Work,
facilitation
thread, by Daryl.
- How to give Feedback, posted by Seth Godin, July 22, 2006
Technical topics, skills, architecture modeling
- See our Software Architecture Links page and Papers and Downloads page for a supply of resources!
- See also SOA Links and Product Platform/Software Product Lines Links
- Linkable Links
http://johnaho.com/links.htm
- Alan Inglis, Chief Architect: EA blog and Management blog
- Sjaak Laan, Vision of IT infrastructure, architecture and security
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Jiri Ludvik,
Jiri's Notepad
- Malan, Ruth, Modularity and what we can learn from Trek, posted to A Trace in the Sand blog, June 20, 2006.
- Debasish Ghosh, Application Failover using AOP
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Matt Welsh, SEDA: An Architecture for Highly Concurrent Server Applications
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Werner Vogels (Amazon CTO) QCon presentation on Availability and Consistency on the InfoQ website
Loose Coupling
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Loose coupling, Wikipedia
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Coupling, Wikipedia
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Loosely coupled, John Hagel
Dependency Inversion
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The Dependency Inversion principle, Robert Martin
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Defending Dependency Inversion, Nate Kohari
Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection
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Inversion of Control Containers and Dependency Injection pattern, Martin Fowler
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Dependency Injection, Wikipedia
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A Beginner's Guide to Dependency Injection, Colm Smyth
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Dependency Injection and Loose Coupling, Billy McCafferty
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A little clarity: Inversion of Control (IoC) and Dependency Injection (DI)
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Dependency injection and open vs. closed designs, Rickard Oberg
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Examining the Validity of Inversion of Control, Sony Mathew
Cohesion
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Cohesion defined, Wikipedia
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Single Responsibility principle, Robert Martin
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Single Responsibility principle, Wikipedia
Contracts and Protocol
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Bringing Speech Acts into UMM, Maria Bergholtz, Prasad Jayaweera, and Paul Johannesson, 2002
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Consumer-driven Contracts, Ian Robinson
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How to Design a Good API and Why it Matters, presentation by Josh Bloch (of Google) on InfoQ, 2006
Interfaces and Roles
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The Interface Segregation Principle, Robert Martin
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RoleInterface, Martin Fowler
Architecture Modeling and Architecture Documentation
- Kelly, Frank, Why Architecture Documentation Matters--Intent and Abstraction, June 15, 2006
- Malan, Ruth, Architecture Sketches, posted to A Trace in the Sand Architecture Journal, August 9, 2007.
- Malan, Ruth, Architecture Basics, posted to A Trace in the Sand Architecture Journal, August 2, 2007.
- Malan, Ruth, Architecture Documentation Links, posted to A Trace in the Sand Architecture Journal, April 26, 2006.
- Malan, Ruth, Architecture Documentation: Courage to Fly in the Face of Convention, posted to A Trace in the Sand blog, August 25, 2006.
Staying Current: Influence and Trend Watch
General
- ACM's weekly email news service gives a broad-ranging scan of interesting tech developments and applications.
- MIT's Technology Review: http://www.technologyreview.com/
Embedded Systems
- Design and Reuse: IP based SoC Design: http://www.us.design-reuse.com/
- Electronic News: http://www.reed-electronics.com/electronicnews/
- Embedded.com: http://www.embedded.com/index.jhtml
- EDN: Voice of the Electronics Engineer: http://www.edn.com
- IBM developerWorks Power Architecture
technology:
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/power/
including Sam Siewert's SoC Drawer series
Sun
- Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun Microsystems, Jonathan's Blog
Microsoft
- Mary Jo Foley's Microsoft Watch blog
- Ray Ozzie's blog (Microsoft CTO and now Chief Architect, with Gates bowing out to focus on his philanthropic foundation)
- Robert Scoble's Scobleizer blog
- Mini Microsoft blog
Communications and Voice over IP (VoIP)
- SOA Side-Effects – The Impact on Unified Communications, by Brian Riggs, May 25, 2006
- Skype
Long Tail
- "The Long Tail," by Chris Anderson, Wired Magazine, October 2004
- The Long Tail blog, by Chris Anderson
- The Wrong Tail, blog post by Guy Kawasaki, July 2006
Rails and Ruby
- Ruby on Rails weblog
- Ruby
Inside, weblog dedicated to Ruby, by Peter Cooper
- Bringing Ruby to the Enterprise: Is Ruby Ready? post by Brad Banister, July 9, 2006
- Refactoring to REST, by Scott Raymond, July 20, 2006
SOA: Service-oriented Architecture
- See our SOA Links page
EDA: Event Driven Architecture
- Event Driven Architecture post by Miko Matsumura on Aug 16, 2006
- EDA using Mule: "Event-driven services in SOA Design an event-driven and service-oriented platform with Mule" by Jeff Hanson, JavaWorld.com, on January 31, 2005.
- Oracle hails event-driven middleware for SOA 2.0, by Paul Krill on InfoWorld, June 19, 2006.
Open Source
- Download Squad: http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/open-source/
- Mule: Open Source ESB, http://mule.codehaus.org/ and http://sourceforge.net/projects/mule/