The internet never forgets! https://web.archive.org/web/20120608060610/http://blog.nakedobjects.org/2007/11/19/workflow-a-triumph-of-hope-over-experience/
On 6 October 2015 at 04:26, David Tildesley <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Stephen, > On Tuesday, 6 October 2015 12:20 AM, Stephen Cameron < > [email protected]> wrote: > >In fact as configurable systems get more and more complex, the need > for>programming disappears, to be replaced by 'configurators' (business > >analysts?) tweeking workflow and rules engines. > I have seen such an approach almost ruin a business and I have yet to > witness a successful example. It's akin to the early SOA hype concepts (you > know, the forms based "UI" calling enterprise services that invoke workflow > in workflow engines that invoke rules in rules engines and the so called > "composite application"). Some very expensive lessons indeed. SOA has found > it's rightful place in the enterprise albeit vastly scaled back in > ambition. > Richard Pawson wrote a blog on > "workflow-a-triumph-of-hope-over-experience" but unfortunately the web has > lost it like it loses so many gems. Maybe Richard will re-post it somewhere > if he is reading this. > Long live DDD :) > Cheers,David. > >
