- Paperback: 228 pages
- Publisher: Springer; 1st Edition. edition (11 Dec 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1852333618
- ISBN-13: 978-1852333614
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.5 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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There has been a phenomenal growth in autonomous business services, fuelled largely by the internet and e-business. New business architectures are emerging, in which an enterprise is configured as a dynamic network of components providing business services to one another. Component-Based Business constitutes a radical challenge and tries to help improve how we think through the practical difficulties and opportunities of the component based business. "In this work so far, Richard challenges conventional thinking with a sometimes breathtaking series of lateral thoughts that are essential reading for the component architect, designer and their customer. Strongly recommended." David Sprott, Principal Analyst, CBDi Forum
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A fascinating, lucid, book that cuts through the hype,
By aidan_ward@antelopes.com (Kent, England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Component-Based Business: Plug and Play (Practitioner Series) (Paperback)
This is a must read for business people interested in the competitive moves opened up by business components. It is irreverent, witty, fun. It deal with how to spot the components that will win, not with this or that technology or dogma. It reclaims the streets from the corporate hype about who the market belongs to.
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Business Software will never be Lego,
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This review is from: The Component-Based Business: Plug and Play (Practitioner Series) (Paperback)
This is a satisfying and stimulating study of building business software with components. Veryard points out that for all the benefits of service-providing components you cannot create mature systems by simply wiring together various components/objects/services. The author points out that system complexity here tends to move to the engineering of effective interfaces between a ragbag of components. To me this is an argument for efficiently engineered component sets such as Delphi's VCL.
So the book focuses more on the interfaces between components than the components themselves, stressing the concept of articulation. It defines articulation as loose coupling (i.e. both separation and connection of parts - decoupling and recoupling). Another aspect of articulation is that it implies clear communication between components and hence clarity of structure at all system levels. Again we see that disparate components will not simply assemble into a meaningful whole - software design remains problematic. As for the technology so for the business. Between business components (such as departments and teams) interfaces and articulation are also key. Deal-making negotiation skills are essential in the compenentized organisation (e.g. to manage business partnerships, external service providers, contractors, etc). These are a few thoughts from notes I took. But the book is richer than my review suggests. You may even come away thinking that business software engineering holds the key to Life, the Universe and Everything .
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This review is from: The Component-Based Business: Plug and Play (Practitioner Series) (Paperback)
By no means dry, the book has a colorful way of exploring topics and then moving on before they have a chance to settle. I suppose this is the author's style and as a consultant one should be good at asking questions and most importantly asking the right ones. In many ways this is the books greatest strength as the author draws on real life examples and then poses questions for further thought. However, the open-ended approach to this all is IMHO the books biggest weakness as the author ends up asking more questions then he seems able to answer. He explains in the afterward that the book is a result of many disjointed notes and their eventual refinement which makes sense because I found no closure upon completing the last chapter. I asked myself what was the point of the book and realized it is what it is: a survey of business and IT, ala Stewart Brand, Gregory Bateson (two highly respected cyberneticists) and others with the resultant hodgepodge of systems theory.In short I would not recommend this book for people looking for a practical hands-on approach to their business and IT. However, I would recommend it for anyone who likes "philosophising" about business and IT systems as the author has a very good knack at making the mundane exciting and vivid. Bringing software maintenance to the same calibre as development (he argues effectively rarely does pure development exist) was the most important thing I took away, though "great minds think alike" may be just another cliche.
5.0 out of 5 stars
A fascinating, lucid book that cuts through the hype,
By aidan_ward@antelopes.com - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Component-Based Business: Plug and Play (Practitioner Series) (Paperback)
This is a must read for business people interested the competitive moves opened up by business components. It is irreverent, witty, fun. It deals with how to spot the components that will win, not this or that technology. It reclaims the streets from the corporate hype about who owns the market.
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