There are some very interesting approaches that Microsoft is taking
across the stack here. They are really pushing their System Definition Model
as a part of their DSI strategy to model (hardware, applications, IT web
services, etc) from the infrastructure domain.
Granted, you have to use all Microsoft tools (eg. Visual Studio 2005,
Virtual Server 2005, etc) but they do provide a DSL builder to allow others to
create tools that generate models that can be leveraged in other modeling
environments.
I'd like to see if we may want to take a vendor agnostic modeling
approach with the SOA Blueprint:
* Start with the business problem and define it
* lets model a business problem utilizing a set of business tools -
use CapGemini's contribution and put this metadata in a model.
* Then can we find the right DSLs (they don't have to be Microsoft) that
produce artifacts for every "layer" of the architecture that we can
tie together in a reference solution model to solve that particular business
problem.
* We can utilize a semantic integration approach to tie together
multiple models
* Package this as a best practice approach to the industry
just an idea on an approach...
Thoughts?
Mike
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Microsoft Motion Modeling Methodology (M*4?)
Here is more food for thought:
- http://blogs.msdn.com/askburton/articles/330974.aspx
- http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnvsent/html/vsts-msf.asp
-----Original Message-----
From: John Harby
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Subject: Re: [soa-blueprints]
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Hasn't Rational XDE been covering that one?
[Marchant, Dan R.] Yes but it doesn't have
microsoft's plan for world domination in mind. Starbucks and Microsoft
should probably merge at some point.
On 11/2/05, Duane
Nickull <>
wrote:
This is old news. Visio has been doing UML models since they
bought it.
The concept of linking that to a .NET IDE is cool IMO.
Duane
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I believe that you may be very close based on what I have seen.
-----Original Message-----
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I believe this is the major tool initiative they are working on for the
end of the year or q1 next year release.
Think of RUP with a microsoft toolset and microsoft framework applied to
it.
That is basically what they are looking at doing I believe.
But I can neither confirm or deny this :)
-----Original Message-----
From: Miko Matsumura [mailto: ]
Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 9:54 AM
To: Duane Nickull
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Subject: RE: [soa-blueprints] Microsoft Motion Modeling Methodology
(M*4?)
Anyone have any insights on this?
http://weblogs.asp.net/omagnusson/archive/2005/07/28/420856.aspx
Microsoft Motion Business Modeling Methodology
At the Tech Ed 2005 Europe Architecture pre-con Beat Schegler and
Arvindra Sehmi talked about a methodology framework that MCS have been
working on called Motion which is supposed to be:
"The Motion Methodology uses the concept of Business Capabilities to
model a business. A Capability describes the what, not the how. A
Capabilities Model abstracts structural information (capabilities and
connections) separately from dynamic information (processes)"
Motion decomposes the whole business into capabilities on many levels of
granularity ( level 1-3), where level 1 represents core business
capabilities (eg. Warehousing), level 2 represents capability groups
(eg. Manage Products/Orders) and level 3 represent the business
capabilities (order products, track etc. ). Each business capability
then has 80 attributes which describe it, such as who owns it, input and
outputs, best practices and exceptions.
On top of this we then layer our business processes. which manage and
orchestrate messages going between these business capabilities.
The Framework is supposed to come with a complete set of deliverables
templates and tasks and a unique "go in, go up, go out" approach to
modeling these business capabilities and processes, FAQs, case studies
and the while shebang.
When goggling around for this, I've not been able to come up with
anything so far. Are there any news on this, when this will be released
and to whom ? Will it be publicly available like MSF or only to partners
?
I can see the tooling for this going hand in hand with DSL tools in the
future.
posted on Thursday, July 28, 2005 1:30 PM
