TOGAF Day 4 (Final)

Same rigorous sessions. Lunch was a drab.

I so much hoped that my team wins the Most Innovative Name competition with Name Caravan Global with this Banner.

John decided Team Ventura the winner. The name kind of remind me of the Ventura and does not directly connote Courier services that formed the core of the Case Studies. Anyway, the prizes were Mars chocolate bars and Team Ventura was nice enough to share it.

Anyway, in a couple of weeks after the assessment of the Workbook, I will be TOGAF Certified.

TOGAF Day 3

Today we were able to get as far as the F stage of the TOGAF Architecture Development Method.

At this point I as already suffering a paralysis from the Information Overload. Just could not take much more and was distracted for most part of the day.

I still tried to learn a bit more and participated in the group task. I

Each of the teams were able to present their developed Artifacts. Quite insightful. We also had a group picture taken.

The group later went out for drinks at Bungalows.

TOGAF Day 2

Day 2 is more puzzling as they sessions got more intense and so much more terms to note and models to understand. For a moment, I was swarmed but need to all I can not to get confused.

Filled with renewed respect for the Boss I work with at MTN as he has been practicing this all these over the years and most people unable to figure out his act.

Amidst the busy session. I was still able to take a couple of pictures for memory sake

 

MSFT's Application Architecture Guide 2.0 Beta 2

Microsoft Patterns & Practice team has recently released the beta 2 of the Application Architecture Guide 2.0 offering significant changes from Beta 1 among which are

Technology matrixes for choosing technologies like Presentation, Data Access, Workflow, and Integration technologies. 
New Agile Architecture Method 

Tuned and pruned the recommendations across the entire guide. 
Restructured the guide for simpler parts 

Read more about the changes at J.D. Meier's blog