Introduction My organization wanted to help employees understand the value of the IDesign Method(both the System Design, aka architecture, and the Project Design). To that end we ran a team-building exercise involving Legos. We broke into small groups (3-4 people each) and assigned each group a Lego kit. The twist: no instructions, not even the box. …
Here’s a book I meant to read last year, but didn’t get to until this year: SOA Patterns. Last year I attended an evening presentation by IDesign architect Petar Vucetin. At the end of the insightful session, he cited the SOA Patterns book. I knew that a recommendation from an IDesign architect is not wisely ignored, so I …
How many of you software geeks have been through a corporate Agile transformation? Did it at first seem as though everything was going to get dramatically better? As though you’d be unleashed to really do your work, and that no longer would useless processes hold you back? How did it turn out? Did the organization …
For those into WCF, Juval Löwy’s 4th edition of Programming WCF Services is out, including coverage of the Azure Service Fabric. To those of us who have taken classes with IDesign, this is an important book that helps make a challenging yet powerful framework approachable. Many teams realize all too late that some of the infrastructure features …
My cousin recently put me onto a book I’m finding quite interesting: The Personal MBA. He said it would be a good book for learning about business, and as I’m considering whether I might want to start a consulting business, it seemed like good reading. I expected to find a book full of business/legal procedures one …