Links List 4.25.08

Posted April 25th, 2008 by Joe Pendry

Serge Thorn writes that IT architecture is not the same as enterprise architecture. According to Serge, an enterprise architect will drive, supervise and review technology diagnosis and assessment activities including strategy development, and identifying opportunities for technology-related improvement based on benchmark data and doing high-level cost benefit analysis. In comparison, an IT architect could be an experienced software engineer with experience in cross-platform, cross-regional application architectures

eXtra asks if uptime becomes unimportant once a website becomes popular. Using Twitter as an example, he asks if downtime is more accepted once you learn to rely on a certain service or product.

Reasons for project failures in organizations are listed by PM hut, including the lack of a change control system to handle scope changes.

Alistair Croll at GigaOm highlighted StackSafe Test Center this week.