Rotating Knives » Enterprise Architecture http://www.rotatingknives.com Thoughts On How to Keep Architecture From Killing People Thu, 08 Jul 2010 12:55:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Channel 9 – Roger Sessions on Architectural Complexity http://www.rotatingknives.com/2009/06/15/roger-sessions-on-architectural-complexity/ http://www.rotatingknives.com/2009/06/15/roger-sessions-on-architectural-complexity/#comments Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:31:51 +0000 David http://www.rotatingknives.com/?p=54 Check out my interview with the godlike Roger Sessions on MSDN Channel 9.  For the one or two of you reading this who don’t already know Roger, he is the CTO of Objectwatch.  He has authored six books, is on the Board of Directors of the International Association of Software Architects, a Microsoft MVP in Enterprise Architecture and a disturbingly good chess player.  In this interview, Roger discusses complexity as a quality attribute of applications.  In fact, he claims:

“The failure to manage IT complexity is the single biggest reason that IT systems so often fail. And when complexity is the culprit, the failures are catastrophic, expensive, and usually highly visible.”

Take a look and see why Roger has been a sought after expert for the past 13 years.

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