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Discipline Is Not a Curse

For those of us in the Enterprise Architecture, impressing the value of discipline on the world that is incentivized to ignore it, is par for the course.  Whether it's due to great expectations, unrealistic timelines, lack of coherent planning, or all of…

Future Proofing your Enterprise Architecture Principles

Enterprise Architecture Principles are fundamental elements in Enterprise Architecture used to encode and elaborate enterprise and business strategy into a set of concrete and actionable rules and guidelines. Enterprise Architecture has a regulative role in terms of restricting design freedom. Enterprise Architecture…

Anti Pattern: Below the Radar

There is significant catharsis in codification of this Anti Pattern. It is a truism that ‘you get what you measure’, and subversion of governance processes is for some, a creative pass time. A ‘common crime’ is establishment of arbitrary thresholds for governance…

The Fun-damental Laws of Enterprise Architecture

This is largely an extract of Wikipedia’s Eponymous Lays page. I have added a few other items along the way. There are 3 sections: Fun Laws, General Laws & Technology Laws. I hope you like it. The Fun Laws Dilbert principle –…

The Purpose Of A System Is What It Does

This is some dot points from an excellent article by Richard Veryard discussing Stafford Beer’s maxim that the “Purpose Of a System Is What It Does” or “POSIWID“. Richard points out that there are two types of purpose in any enterprise: “the…

Neural Enterprise Architecture

  Einstein: The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, and the rational mind is a faithful servant. Renowned psychiatrist and writer Iain McGilchrist explains how our ‘divided brain’ has profoundly altered human behaviour, culture and society. This is an absolutely beautiful package…

5 Enterprise Architecture Picks

Something for the weekend…   5 Enterprise Architecture picks for the weekend (much more interesting than the launch of the Sun on Sunday!). Title Abstract Notes Mapping the Enterprise Architecture Principles in TOGAF to the Cybernetic Concepts–An Exploratory Study Although principles are…

On your Bike: Pattern to Anti Pattern to Pattern

Patterns becoming Anti Patterns and Anti Patterns becoming Patterns. An illustration using the ‘history of cycles’: 1817 to 1819: the draisine or velocipede Positives: basic concept established Negatives: no pedals Note: Foundational Pattern Established.   1860 Bone Shakers Positives: Reduced weight, sleeker,…

Organisational Design Anti Pattern: Headcount Justifying the Manager

A feudalism Anti Pattern?   This Anti Pattern attracts controversy. It is potentially incendiary, and presents itself during analysis of business architecture, particularly organisational design and efficiency. Anti Pattern Name [Headcount Justifying the Manager.] Type: [Managerial, Organisational.] Problem: [Organisational Structure may have…
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