I am in the process of writing the inaugural edition of the UK architecture newsletter due out in May(!) and was scratching my head as to what article or theme to lead with. Looking back over my Blog at possible topic areas I decided that Software Factories would be a good topic as it:

·        Leads on from the whole area of modeling which is very high profile at the moment.

·        Is an important element of how people in Microsoft are thinking about modeling.

·        There is a great new book about it due out in July from two eminent MS Architects.

·        An area I wanted to do some bit of research in!

So I pulled together all the materials I could find on Software Factories an put it together as an article on my blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/michael_platt/articles/140196.aspx. I will also add it into the UK architecture site at http://www.microsoft.com/uk/msdn/architecture/ in the very near future.