IASA Tonight

[Burr Sutter]

Just in case there are few more AJUG'ers that didn't make it onto the IASA
list...
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Time: 6:30 - 8:30
Place: Matrix Resources
Topic: Paul Preiss - President & Chairman of the International Assocation of
Software Architects
Description:

IT architecture has been around for a dozens of years. Parnas and Dikstra
referenced it decades ago. More recently thousands of IT professionals have
been claiming to be architects. Enterprise architect, solutions architect,
software architect, infrastructure architect, business architect, the list
goes on. Everywhere you look there is another claimant to the throne of
architecture. Yet surprisingly very few people agree on the basic role of
the architecture professional or more tellingly the fundamental components
of the field. We are hounded by terms like Architecture Style, Architecture
Pattern, Architecture Framework and Toolsets. We are beset by consultants
and product companies who want us to sign off on their work. We are mired in
an environment where every developer who doesn't want to be outsourced and
every IT manager who's been left behind the technology curve wants to be an
IT *architect*. Yet architecture stands as a dream we can almost touch, a
sense that things could be right if we just thought about it hard enough.

But we are not going to talk about all that stuff. We may mention style or
pattern or methodology but we are really here to talk about people. People
who've pulled themselves up by their bootstraps. People who've built their
influence on technical skill and an ability to find value where there was
none before. We are going to talk not so much about *architecture* as *
architects*.

We've been around for years. We're the ones you come to ask about a problem
you can't solve, or the ones who dreamed up that amazing application that
made/saved the company massive amounts of money and is still pretty easy to
maintain. We're the ones who care more about HOW you decide than WHAT you
decide. And together, well, you will be amazed at what we will accomplish…
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