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My name is Aleksey Maksimov. I am Software Architect with many years of IT experience and architecture experience. I work for a global IT consulting company and live in the United Kingdom. This is my software rants blog. I also have blog about my life happenings, in Russian. I also registered in almost all social networks, usually as ctpeko3a, sometimes as lechat and rarely as drunkenfly. Here is my FriendFeed and View my profile on LinkedIn.

July 27 2004

Software Architecture in Practice. Part 1. Life.

Started reading “Software Architecture in Practice, Second Edition“. It looks like a good book, though first 20 pages have too much of “we mention it here, but for details refer to Chapter X”. Which breaks logic a bit.

At work got through two meetings so far:

  1. mini one, about job spec for Program Manager.

    Removed all “new media“(wtf is that, anyway?) and added knowledge of RUP and UML as mandatory attributes. Is it a part of the job of Technical Architect to create a job specs for managers?

  2. about status of the Product we are building.

    We are oficially late now.
    Not because of our bad work, but because of a low priority our requirements gathering work has in the eyes of our client. And we lost BA down the road. Account manager wants to know why we don’t need a full blown Content Management System in this project. Well, that’s the question: why do we need it if everything visible will be generated from database?

    Now I have date of my first deliverable: I need to deliver first version of Software Architecture documentation next Wednesday. I pretty confident that I will be able to finish most of that document, so no worries here.

Changed database schema a bit. Now Promotions are handled the same way as any additional information related to Product Catalog Items.

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