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Defining architects

Ted Neward was contacted by a reader with some questions regarding architects and their role. You can find the excellent answer here.

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Lightweight in a heavyweight organisation

Johannes Brodwall is spearheading some really interesting stuff in the financial sector in Norway. They are going lightweight and using Jetty as a container for highly critical business systems. Read a blog about their environment here. I’m also looking forward to his promised posts on the organizational side of things.

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Releasing a minimal set of features

Agile should push us into delivering the smallest part first and put it into production, but it is easy to forget. Especially working with replacing legacy systems it is easy to end up with a project path that aims too high. Martin Fowler has a nice example of how a really simplistic approach can be that will minimize time to market. Read it here.