Matt Hessinger - All Comments

re: TechEd 2009: Pre-conference questions posted

Matt Hessinger — Sun, 24 May 2009 15:06:54 GMT

You need to register with the site, and log in, to see the questions (as they are posted to forums within the site). Sorry about the confusion.

There is a bug in the Community Server platform that incorrectly formats links for tags that have spaces in them, but I corrected the URLs for the links in my post.

re: TechEd 2009: Pre-conference questions posted

ReneR — Sun, 24 May 2009 14:05:49 GMT

It seems not to work when I click Interest. If I try through the Tags of the forum. There is no Tech Ed Tag, and not all tags give an answer.

A hint would be helpfull.

Thanks

re: My summer with Hofstadter: A prelude + week 1

bob k — Thu, 21 May 2009 01:04:47 GMT

Love the bulleted def of intelligence. makes sense!

re: Reference to great post on architecture skills

Wiebe Wiersema — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:34:37 GMT

Hi Matt,

I like your pptx as well, good stuff, we might do rethink on the material shown to Eric Zinda. (Tools for BA's) to what they would look like for Solution Architects. I think they would be pretty much the same, with different responsabilities for the SA role and additional views on the more design and construction oriented models..

nice to keep in touch this way ;-)

re: Portrait of the Architect as Artist

Craig Randall — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:38:20 GMT

For more on Outliers, please see craigrandall.net/.../outliers

re: Portrait of the Architect as Artist

Admin — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:50:52 GMT

This post got me thinking about Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers and George Leonard's Mastery. Both observer that mastery in any pursuit takes 10,000 hours to attain and the ability not just to move through, but to enjoy the experience of remaining on a plateau is critical to growth. The key factors that they call out like instruction, mentorship and the willingness to look foolish are all parallel the analogy you give us. Thanks for the great post,

Barry

re: Architect Resources: Business Analysis Book of Knowledge

Barry Nowak — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:48:27 GMT

Matt,

Thanks for posting this. It's great information.

Regards,

Barry

re: One size never fits all.

Matt Hessinger — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:01:06 GMT

Ambigous (or at least, not a detailed, complete analysis) by intent. This topic will likely get some deeper exploration in the "Architecture and Analysis" working group. I also figure that revisiting the topic five years later might be a nice idea.

- Hess

re: One size never fits all.

Saleh — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:09:40 GMT

I can see where you're trying to go with this. I find it a little ambiguous. It would've helped me understand it more if you've shown an example of what you're suggesting.

re: One size never fits all.

Loren Goodman — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:54:28 GMT

Agree with Jim, this was excellent article Matt!! Was there a different picture of the clothing pattern in the original arch journal article?

re: One size never fits all.

Jim Wilt — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 23:31:54 GMT

4.5 years later, this is still relevant, Matt!

I like how you emphasize the creative aspects of "craft" and "art" in Architecture. this is too easily lost in the pre-packaging of engineering as you state.

Comparing the complex clothing pattern to the IT MVC Architecture pattern, I wonder if the omission of variations on the theme is more due to the unlimited variances that can occur due to OS, language, and framework differences producing more unknowns than what can be reasonably anticipated & documented.

Still, when is comes to application, the seamstress and the building architect leave out no details in their patterns and blueprints.