A bit more broken
How did enterprise-architecture get to be so broken? I know I promised to move on to tactics that we can use to recover from the brokenness – and I will do so in the next post. But I must admit…
Month: August 2012
Modeling Enterprise Architectures using System Dynamics
System Dynamics model for adoption of a new product (source: Patrhoue)System Dynamics, a field invented by MIT professor Jay Forrester, was created by adapting engineering control theory into social-economic domains. It was first used to solve su…
Modeling Enterprise Architectures using System Dynamics
System Dynamics model for adoption of a new product (source: Patrhoue)System Dynamics, a field invented by MIT professor Jay Forrester, was created by adapting engineering control theory into social-economic domains. It was first used to solve su…
Why broken?
If the mainstream approach to enterprise-architectures is broken – and so badly broken, at that – then why is it broken? In what way is it broken? What are the core reasons behind why it’s so broken? And why ask this?…
GLUE Governance
Even though I promised to write about GLUE Journeys this is another topic I like to touch shortly. I was challenged via twitter:What is Governance, if not “sane and easy to understand rules, roles and responsibilities”?I personally place Governance in …
The Complicated Complexity Confusion Principle Complexity is an…
The Complicated Complexity Confusion Principle
Complexity is an objective quality of the real world. Complexity expresses itself in the wonderful behaviour of systems.
Complicated is a psycho-social phenomenon. It is a missmatch between the complexity of the world and our ability to understand and control it. Complications express themselves as confusion.
Confusing the two is the anti-pattern. It expresses itself in two ways.
- As an attempt to lower complication by reducing complexity. So reducing the functionality of the system.
- As an attempt to reduce complexity by simplifying its human representation. So creating a potentially dangerous ignorance of the system. This version is sometimes called Magical Simplification.
“Anti-Collaboration and the Hungry-Hippo Secret Society.”
“Anti-Collaboration and the Hungry-Hippo Secret Society.”
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Trapped inside their plastic bubble-land, committed forever to competing for access to worthless inedible coloured plastic baubles that represent to them a measure of status, members of the hungry-hippo secret-society collaborate in isolation from the world around them, waiting for their plastic environments to be exhalted as wonderful contributions to the mission, the project, the policy, the business requirements, the strategy, or whatever it is these self-professed dippy maven-muppets believe they are achieving without consultation, without reflection, and without harnessing the power and good intentions of the collective.
TOGAF® and BIAN – A strong proposition for the Banking Industry
Earlier this year, a white paper was published on the integration of TOGAF® and BIAN, the framework of the Banking Industry Architecture Network. So how does a white paper help practicing architects in banks? Continue reading →
Real Enterprise Architecture
Today I read a very good blog post (just another) from Tom Graves, which worked as a blockade runner for one thought of mine where I was not really able to put it into words.“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the …
Broken
It started with an anguished Skype-call from a colleague: “Have you seen this?”, he said. He was pretty upset about it: and after reading the post he’d pointed to, so was I. One of the major consultancies – a self-styled ‘thought-leader’…
Always remember the next larger context
Today I stumbled over a Tweet which contained following quote: “Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context – a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.”,Eliel Saarinen&…
Anti-Collaboration and the Hungry-Hippo Secret-Society
Trapped inside their plastic bubble-land, committed forever to competing for access to worthless inedible coloured plastic baubles that represent to them a measure of status, members of the hungry-hippo secret-society collaborate in isolation from the world around them, waiting for their plastic environments to be exhalted as wonderful contributions to the mission, the project, the […]