Architecture

Digital Disruption: Unleash Employee IQ

Digital Disruption Lesson #1: Unleash the IQ of your employees. This is the first in a five part series on Digital Disruption. What does it take to be smart? Are you born smart? Are some people just brighter than others? How can…

Dinner and a Little Disruption

I attended Forrester’s Annual Forum For CIO, EA, Infrastructure & Ops, Security & Risk, and Sourcing Professionals in Washington DC a few weeks ago and had the opportunity to have dinner with Forrester CEO, George Colony. Colony emphasized his message about Digital…

The Open Group Sydney – My Conference Highlights

By Mac Lemon, MD Australia at Enterprise Architects Well the dust has settled now with the conclusion of The Open Group ‘Enterprise Transformation’ Conference held in Sydney, Australia for the first time on April 15-20. Enterprise Architects is proud to have been…

Att-e-en-tion! To System Design

What we are paying attention to shapes what we perceive and pay attention to. And paying attention, requires attention. The system, thought of, observed and measured, reasoned about, designed as, a system, needs intentional attention. Attention that competes for bandwidth with the…

The “Right” Representation of the EA Value Cycle

In the world of Enterprise Architecture, we are still creating “shared” understanding of how to tell our stakeholders what we do.  There is no consistency in our diagrams or our descriptions just yet.  This post will discuss the different ways we present…

How to Become a Hero for Growth

One thing that happens when you work to develop change across an organization: you detect the “cultural” elements of an organization that often go unnoticed by the people involved.  Just as a “Fish discovers water last,” people working in a cultural context…

Usability is Not an Architecture Quality Attribute

The architecture of an application is often evaluated by assessing its quality attributes; things like performance, security, maintainability  and availability. One topic that often surfaces is whether Usability should be considered an architecture quality attribute. No one would dispute the importance of usability…

Johnny Carson as Carnac the Magnificent Architect

Johnny Carson once claimed that his favorite joke went like this: Imagine the African Savanna in late August. In what was a large lake, but is now a relatively small mud-pool sits two hippos. They are submerged to their eyeballs, which appear…

AGILE architecture vs. agile ARCHITECTURE

As an architect involved in an agile implementation (my current gig), you can imagine how interested I was to see that there’s a new book on Agile Architecture, and perhaps how disappointed I was to see that it focused on SOA and…

A Science of Enterprise Architecture? Really?

I've seen quite a few discussions over the last couple of years about whether enterprise architecture (EA) is amenable to disciplined, rigorous methods - sometimes described as a scientific approach. A lot of what I've seen strikes me as anything but scientific.
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