Great podcast

I found a whole bunch of podcasts and presentations from Carson Workshop. I just listen to one yet but that one was really great. If you only gonna listen to one podcast this week, here you got it.... It is Carl Sjogreen the program manager for Google calender that speeks about "How We Built Google Calendar". This is a non technical presentation it's just about how they did it and some insights from the process.

Some words from the presentation:

• "Talking to real customers"
• "The importance of the vision"
• "Figure out what you absolutely have to get right and relentlessly refine it"
• "Easy is the Most Important Feature"
• "Build products for people who don’t want to use them"

I think this quote is to remember:
“Simple things should be simple, and complex things should be possible”
Alan Kay, Disney Fellow and VP of R&D, The Walt Disney Company

Find the podcast and the presentation here. I have only listen to this one yet but I think that there are many more podcasts there worth listening to.

The role of the architect

This is a tips for a good podcast. This one is from ARCast with Ron Jacobs and it's about the architect role. http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=195719

The description of the show: "What is an architect? What do they do? What kind of skills do I need to become an architect? These are the questions that are on the minds of so many developers today. Perhaps you have thought about becoming an architect and you want to know these answers. Well my friend, you are in luck because today we have Robert Daigneau Director of Platform Architecture for Monster.com here with us to find out if you have what it takes."

In one of the comments from the show there are a link to a good article in the subjet. Read it here. This article is talking about the skills needed for a good architect.

• Software Engineering Skills
• Software process
• Project Management
• Business Skills
• Technology Expertise
• Implementation Expertise
• Social skills

Podcast

A good podcast from Dag König. It's an old post but it's still interesting. The podcast is about SOA and the SOA work on SAP. It's very interesting to hear how the work was done and how they thought through the implementation. Dag interview Lars Lindberg who is IT-archicts for SAP about how the implementation has gone and what they has learn along the way.

The podcast is in swedish.
http://buzzfrog.blogs.com/zabrak/2006/01/av_38_intervju_.html