Lessons in Grid Computing: The System Is a Mirror

Foreword by Thornton May.

Acknowledgments.

Chapter 1: The Prime Theorem
Information Systems Mirror the People that Build Them.

Chapter 2: Interfaces
How They Work and What Happens When They Are Broken.

Chapter 3: Relationship Management
We Can No Longer Manage the Systems as Single Nodes.

Chapter 4: Virtualization
A Natural Stage in the Maturity Cycle of Technologies

Chapter 5: Orchestration
Finding a Sensible Order amid too Many Complications to Count.

Chapter 6: Complexity
Databases, Passwords, Collaboration, Funding, Smashed Atoms, and a Professor.

Chapter 7: Distributed Resources
Two Types of Diffusion—Compute Resources and Human Capital.

Chapter 8: Flash Teams
Analysis of New Organizational Groups from Several Perspectives.

Chapter 9: Network as Narrative Form
Basic Building Blocks Connected to Create Various Structures.

Chapter 10: Identity
Finding the Needle in the Haystack and Giving It a Name.

Chapter 11: Organizational Architecture
How We Organize Ourselves Is as Important as What We Say and Do.

Chapter 12: (Theory of) Resonant Usability
Everything Is Moving to the Presentation Layer, Where Humans Interact.

Chapter 13: Turbulence
Creating Stability in the Face of Chaotic Disruption.

Chapter 14: Libraries
Two Lives, Two Windows, and the Search for Information.

Chapter 15: Abstraction
Lift Yourself above the Conflicting Details and Look for Similarity.

Chapter 16: Insubordination as an Asset
Why You Must Allow Employees to Disagree with Your Decisions.

Chapter 17: The Consortium
The Multisourced IT Organization and a Software Commons—Our Future.

Chapter 18: The Everysphere
An Example of Synchronous Events between “Unrelated” Objects.

Chapter 19: Q Narratives
Understand the Story and You Will Understand the Business Process.

Chapter 20: Leaving Flatland
To Adjust Somehow after Learning That Your World Has Another Dimension.

Chapter 21: We Are the Platform
Some Final Observations about the System and the Mirror.

Index.