Lessons in Grid Computing—The System Is a Mirror |
Foreword by Geoffrey Moore |
Foreword by Thornton May |
Chapter 1 |
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The Prime Theorem: Information Systems Mirror the People that Build Them |
Chapter 2 |
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Interfaces: How They Work and What Happens When They Are Broken |
Chapter 3 |
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Relationship Management: We Can No Longer Manage the Systems as Single Nodes |
Chapter 4 |
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Virtualization: A Natural Stage in the Maturity Cycle of Technologies |
Chapter 5 |
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Orchestration: Finding a Sensible Order amid too Many Complications to Count |
Chapter 6 |
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Complexity: Databases, Passwords, Collaboration, Funding, Smashed Atoms, and a Professor |
Chapter 7 |
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Distributed Resources: Two Types of Diffusion—Compute Resources and Human Capital |
Chapter 8 |
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Flash Teams: Analysis of New Organizational Groups from Several Perspectives |
Chapter 9 |
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Network As Narrative Form |
Chapter 10 |
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Identity: Finding the Needle in the Haystack and Giving It a Name |
Chapter 11 |
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Organizational Architecture: How We Organize Ourselves Is as Important as What We Say and Do |
Chapter 12 |
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(Theory Of) Resonant Usability: Everything Is Moving to the Presentation Layer, Where Humans Interact |
Chapter 13 |
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Turbulence: Creating Stability in the Face of Chaotic Disruption |
Chapter 14 |
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Libraries: Two Lives, Two Windows, and the Search for Information |
Chapter 15 |
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Abstraction: Lift Yourself above the Conflicting Details and Look for Similarity |
Chapter 16 |
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Insubordination As An Asset: Why You Must Allow Employees to Disagree with Your Decisions |
Chapter 17 |
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The Consortium: The Multisourced IT Organization and a Software Commons—Our Future |
Chapter 18 |
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The Everysphere: An Example of Synchronous Events between "Unrelated" Objects |
Chapter 19 |
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Q Narratives: Understand the Story and You Will Understand the Business Process |
Chapter 20 |
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Leaving Flatland: To Adjust Somehow after Learning That Your World Has Another Dimension |
Chapter 21 |
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We Are The Platform |
