SAF, Careers and ArcBOK

I haven’t blogged about this yet, but I have been thinking about it of late with some work that is happening at Object so I thought I would. In November I presented at the Strategic Architecture Forum in San Francisco. This conference sees Enterprise Architects, CTO’s and CIO’s from the largest companies in the US attend along with many of the leading architecture practitioners. I presented a talk there on ‘Growing Architects’, which pulled together the research that I have completed over the past three years with the help of other Architects from around the world. It provided CIO’s and … Continue reading SAF, Careers and ArcBOK

Career Development for Architects

Thanks to everyone that attended the presentation last night at the Victoria.NET Dev SIG.  Thanks especially for the lively discussion at the end. I’ve uploaded the presentation to SlideShare so you can review it again at your leisure. Please feel free to continue the conversation below, or by email.

I’m presenting tonight

Very late notice (it kind of snuck up on me like everything else does), but I am presenting tonight. The presentation is on my favourite topic of career development. and is about how developers can learn to become great architects and how architects can chart a course to the next step.  Something in it for everyone (as long as you are a developer or an architect!) The presentation is for Victoria .NET and is on at Microsoft’s Melbourne office at Level 5, 4 Freshwater Place (Southbank) from 5:30.  It follows what sounds to be an excellent presentation from a local … Continue reading I’m presenting tonight