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On Knowing Your Sources
July 2, 2007 |
Normally this is the kind of thing I’d do by email or comments, but unfortunately service oriented enterprise supports neither.
In a post there, Jeff Schneider blasts this article for pretension, based on a mistaken assumption that the author, Bill Zachmann, is the creator of the Zachman Framework. In fact, it was created by John Zachman–the names are similar but they are two entirely different people. Other than that I don’t have enough exposure to SOA concepts (yet) to hold an opinion. It’s an understandable mistake, but unfortunately it reduces the post to nothing more than an inaccurate ad-hominem attack.
Another place where some checking could have been useful is in this article in the McKinsey Quarterly, where they advance the radical suggestion that Lean could be applied to software development and maintenance. The authors write as if this idea had never been advanced by anyone before. I know that’s par for the course in the consulting biz, but frankly I’m more convinced by authors who can show me that they’ve done their research. This is quite different from Schneider’s mistake–this isn’t a blog post that the authors put together on their lunch break (or whatever) where the occasional error is only to be expected.
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