Blogs - mattdeacon


Talking Architects with Richard Veryard[MP4] [0:21:04] [2010/05/17]
Is your organisation intelligent? What makes an organisation smart? What makes them dumb? We all know that what intelligent people are like and it's not necessarily linked to IQ! It's more about their…


Talking Architects with Steve Cook[MP4] [0:17:33] [2010/05/17]
Steve Cook, Principal Architect in the Microsoft Visual Studio Team tells me all about Microsoft's involvement in the Object Management Group and his desire to get UML right this time around!For more…


Talking Architects with Andy Hopkirk[MP4] [0:25:51] [2010/05/14]
Andy Hopkirk is a legend in government circles for his unstinting leadership in driving interoperability initiatives like the e-Government Integration Framework (e-GIF)through his work at the National…


Talking Architects with Kim Cameron[MP4] [0:20:09] [2010/05/14]
"The Internet was born without an identity". -Kim Cameron.With the growing interest in "cloud computing", the subject of Identity is moving into the limelight. Kim Cameron is a…


Talking Architects with David Sprott[MP4] [0:12:26] [2010/04/26]
10 years of .NET and 10 years of .NET Web Services! Well, perhaps this was not mark the starting point of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) but the last decade has seen an unpresidented period where…


Talking Architects with Ivar Jacobson[MP4] [0:23:40] [2010/04/26]
"Everyone of us knows how to develop software, but as an industry we don't know it!" or so Ivar Jacobson argues. Software engineering is severly hampered today by immature practices. I got…


Talking Architects with Dave Coplin[MP4] [0:18:22] [2010/04/26]
Governement Clouds; empowering the citizen or just about cutting costs? Dave Coplin, National Technology Officer, Microsoft UK is at the centre of this debate in the UK and argues that for from just…


Talking Architects with Iain Mortimer[MP4] [0:20:37] [2010/04/23]
What's happening to the enterprise? What's the next generation enterprise going to look like?Ans: An Orange!I got to talk backstage at Architect Insight the other month with Iain Mortimer, Chief…


Talking Architects - Roger Sessions[MP4] [0:19:46] [2009/12/14]
According to Roger Sessions in his recent white paper "The IT Complexity Crisis", the worldwide annual cost of IT failure is over $6 trillion a year and what’s worse is it is on the…


Talking Architects - Angela Yochem[MP4] [0:19:56] [2009/11/12]
"Architects need to be partners of the business" is what Angela Yochem, an Executive IT Architect with a large multinational organisation, believes is key in delivering value to the…


Talking Architects - Neil Ward-Dutton[MP4] [0:21:19] [2009/11/02]
Matt Deacon, host of Talking Architects talks to Neil Ward-Dutton from the Industry Analyst firm MWD Advisors about the value of IASA, of architects and what they all think of cloud computing!


Talking Architects with Len Bass[MP4] [0:20:15] [2009/10/28]
Quality Attributes (Non-functional requirements) as first class citizens of a project? Too far fetched? Len Bass, co-author of Software Architecture in Practice and longstanding member of the…