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One of the key reasons why I’m so vehemently against any-centrism and suchlike revolves around the question of competence – or, more usually, the lack of it. Competence is where someone knows what they’re doing, and does it. And, oddly, often don’t bother to say that they’re competent – perhaps because they don’t need to […]
I often don’t like when EA discussions take the route into meta concepts. Enterprise architects – as the abstract thinkers they often are – have a tendency to discuss meta concepts. “What does the meta model of that method look like?”, “What do you mean when you say capability?”, “How do you define enterprise architecture?”. […]
This one continues the recent theme of IT-centrism and why it’s such a problem for enterprise-architecture, but extends it into a slightly different direction, courtesy of a Tweet yesterday by Ron Tolido: rtolido: interesting stuff coming soon around a global Business Architect certification standard by The Open Group #ogsfo Important to say here that I […]
My latest posts on Active Information. It’d be fair to say I’m more focused on raising ideas than hit counts.
Software Architect Lessons from Amazon’s DynamoDB
I took a bit of a tangent (shocking!) on the DynamoDB announcement, pulling lessons from Werner Vogels’ recounting of the DynamoDB genesis that every software architect should embrace.
More data, more collaboration, more power.
In another showing of me being me, I ferret out a counter intuitive idea on the human change of data-driven decision-making.
The official excerpt:
“When you think about the human resistance in adopting data-driven decision-making, or really any change, at the root is the me question. What is the impact on my job, my span of control, my future opportunities?”
Allow me to apologize for the length of this narrative as I need to provide a direct quote before launching into the actual subject. Imagine a universe in which video games were invented before books. Because books would come later (i.e they would b…
Modelworld is an interesting model that I discovered just sometime back. It’s completely browser supported so no need to install or have a repository.
It’s still in beta it’s elegant and is a quick and easy tool to draw a few diagrams.
Features:
Co…
Allow me to apologize for the length of this narrative as I need to provide a direct quote before launching into the actual subject. Imagine a universe in which video games were invented before books. Because books would come later (i.e they would b…
By E.G.Nadhan, HP Enterprise Services Not far from where The Open Group Conference was held in San Francisco this week is the Winchester Mystery House, once the personal residence of Sarah Winchester, widow of the gun magnate William Wirt Winchester…
First and foremost, a big thank you to the attendees of my session. We filled the room! All the interaction and questions were top notch. I really enjoyed presenting to all of you. In my session, Why EA’s Must Drive…
By The Open Group Conference Team Yesterday concluded The Open Group Conference San Francisco. Key themes that stood out on Day 3, as well as throughout the conference, included the need for a better understanding of business expectations and existing …
Archimate is an exciting modelling tool for Enterprise Architects. It’s a free, Open Source, multi-platform modelling tool based on Eclipse.
It is eextremely easy to install and use, it particularly useful to rapidly prototype a model when needed.
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