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Simon is a hands-on software architect and a senior consultant at C5 Alliance in Jersey. Over the past 12 years, he’s been involved in projects ranging from rich desktop clients and web applications through to highly scalable distributed systems and service-oriented architectures; predominantly within the finance industry. He's also undertaken consulting and training roles with a broader focus on people, process and technology.

Simon is additionally active in wider aspects of the IT industry. Using his architecture experience, he founded the Coding the Architecture website, delivering content for the growing community of hands-on pragmatic software architects. He has also written and co-written a number of books about Java EE web technologies, spoken at a number of high profile software development conferences, developed a software architecture training course and actively maintains a public blog.

Most recently, Simon has set up itjersey; a web-based community for information technology in Jersey.

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1	How much architecture is enough? Thanks to everybody that came along to our "in our brains" session last week where we tried to answer the question of how much architecture is enough. The event was part of Skills Matter's London Agile Month and it was a great turnout where we had some ...	08-Sep-2008 17:01:00
2	How much architecture is enough? This Wednesday, after the training course and as a part of Skills Matter's London Agile Month, we'll be running a session entitled "How much architecture is enough?". Although this is billed as "In the Brain of Simon Brown", it's actually going to be an ...	01-Sep-2008 11:11:25
3	When will the offshore bubble burst? Hearing management teams talk about offshore is becoming a more frequent occurrence these days and most large organisations that I've met in the past six months are starting to invest in offshoring if they've not done so already. That's not really ...	14-Feb-2008 11:08:00
4	Why do so many technology projects fail? The Financial Times published an interesting article earlier in the week entitled Perspectives: Why do so many technology projects fail? (registration required) detailing a court action between BSkyB and EDS. In summary, it's about the failure to ...	23-Nov-2007 14:48:00
5	Agile or ad hoc? One trend that I'm seeing a lot of recently is people using the following sorts of phrases, both in conversation and on their CVs. We're using an agile development process. Our project is agile. I have two years extreme programming experience. We're ...	21-Nov-2006 22:10:00
6	Speculative design From Agile Answers comes the following paragraph (emphasis added), which is pretty timely given the conversations I've had recently. Do the simplest thing for the task at hand Originally a pushback against speculative development (particularly in ...	09-Feb-2006 10:59:58
7	How long is a timebox? One of the most common questions about timeboxing relates to the length of timeboxes. How long should they be and what factors influence this decision? While there are many recommendations out there, some of which are strongly tied to the development ...	23-Jan-2006 16:52:26