The Incident Archive

Warning: Long blurb about what is in my head right now   Ok so I have been pondering the role of architecture and its current relevance. In some organizations it is ignored in others it is a hindrance. It is very hard to measure its impact. This is a thought that came from that exercise. Development should not be difficult; so keep it simple for the majority of things and hide the complexity. One of the key things business wants is to be more agile and get what will add business value as quick as possible. This allows them to have a completive edge over the competition.  As for maintenance it is a hidden cost at time of development and will cost many times more than the cost of the initial development over time. This is kind of where my passion lies bringing down the cost of maintenance and upping the speed of development. One of the tools I use to address the above is Framework based development where you don’t just provide a blueprint but a working fully funct...

Warning: Rant about what is in my head and random opinions to follow. I have seen a few posts on sites disparaging developers from various nations but from my perspective I understand this but don’t agree with it. First off if you pay peanuts you get monkeys (do monkeys really like peanuts who comes up with these sayings) if you pay top dollar generally besides the charlatans you can get the best people no matter what country you are in. I have worked with awesome developers from a lot of countries but as a general rule developers tend to be crap and under-trained (by my standards) because the pervading philosophy of the day is cheap is better. I think every nation produces a small set of highly skilled developers and then the average ones. Most of those great developers have been hit by the peter principal and are no longer developers. I don’t know many great developer who are not non coding architects, development mangers etc. (Let’s start creating hero’s in every role please...