The Architecture For This Project Is Out Of Scope

It is fair to say that the project in question has not started well. A lengthy incubation period executed in isolation from business and delivery partners has seen resources consumed in exchange for very little demonstrable progress, and high-level commitment waning. Faced with challenges like these, project managers will often retreat into their defensive belief […]

Technology Architecture Questions for Vendors

As time goes by architects are reviewing less custom / "home grown" solutions and looking at commercial off the shelf (COTS), platforms or cloud based solutions. I thought I would share with you a vendor architecture question template that I…

Key Concepts Underpinning Identity Management

Today, the lack of trust in online Identity forces organizations to set up their own identity management systems, dishing out their own usernames and passwords/PINs for us. The result is that we end up having to remember well over 50 different online identities, which poses a large problem. Continue reading

Evolving the Enterprise Architecture Body of Knowledge

#entarch #EABOK There is a considerable “body of knowledge” in the enterprise architecture world. Among other things, this includes

Founding documents that everyone references, such as Zachman’s 1987
paper for the IBM Systems Journal, and the MIT bo…

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Plan versus Policy – Badgers Reprieved

The UK government has withdrawn from its PLAN to cull badgers, but remains committed to its POLICY of culling badgers. Badger cull postponed until 2013 (Guardian 23 October 2012)Here’s a stab at a VPEC-t analysis …Values: We love badgers, they are so…