Asymmetric Design

by Philip Boxer
This presentation was given in collaboration with Suzanne Garcia at the Fifth SEI Architecture Technology User Network Conference on Architecture at all Scales, May 4-7 in Pittsburgh.
Software architects are increasingly being asked to address how their architectural representations relate not only to those of systems (of systems) engineers, but also to the views […]

by Philip Boxer
This paper was presented in collaboration with Suzanne Garcia at the 3rd Annual IEEE Systems Conference in Vancouver March 23-26 with the following abstract:
An enterprise architecture is an accepted, widely used means for an organization to capture the relationship of its business operations to the systems and data that support them. Increasingly, enterprises […]

by Richard Veryard
A business can be regarded as a platform of services. This has important implications for the (variable) geometry of the single firm, as well as the interoperability of multiple firms.

Podcast with Philip Boxer, Richard Veryard and Ron Jacobs released on Microsoft Channel Nine.

Necessity is the mother of invention, and value model diversity on the demand side will force the supply side to better satisfy it…

In order to know where to accommodate diversity and where to leverage commonality, you must have a way of identifying and contrasting context-specific challenges.