February 2008 - Posts

What is (and what is not) Service Orientation - Part II

In my first post about the subject , I've focused on what service orientation is not . In this second post, I'm writing about what I think service orientation really is: 1) Exposes business processes as services : SO impacts vertically your organization, Read More...

What is (and what is not) Service Orientation - Part I

These last 2 years as software architect and lead developer for Sapo Services project, I learned a lot about what is service orientation and what works better. These conclusions are of course taken from my real-world experience implementing this and other Read More...

Scrum tips from a recently Certified Scrum Master

Thanks to Microsoft , Fullsix and Logical Software , who organized and sponsored the first Scrum Master Certification training ever delivered in Portugal, I am now a Certified Scrum Master . As recognized by Mitch Lacey , our Certified Scrum Trainer , Read More...

Notes for a 64-bit Architecture Migration Strategy

According to this report , " AMD’s March 2003 introduction of its Opteron processor, followed by Intel’s March 2004 release of a family of x86 64-bit processors under the Xeon brand name, changed the landscape considerably [My note: the landscape of having Read More...

What does a Software Architect do?

Being a good architect is not an easy task to do. This January, I was in Norway for the Architect's Master Class with Juval Lowy, from IDesign , and one aspect that I've found interesting in what concerns this course organization is the way Juval assigned Read More...