Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
When markets shift overnight, being able to quickly adapt sets successful organizations apart from the rest. These are the organizations that can fundamentally rethink their strategies and rapidly pivot their strategic investments and resources to capitalize on new opportunities or defend against emerging threats. Consider this scenario: Your competitor launches a disruptive product threatening a…
By Stuart Dee A debate that comes up frequently in technology circles is that Architects should own non-functional requirements (NFRs) as they play a pivotal role in designing and overseeing systems that need to meet […]
By Scott Ambler, Consulting Methodologist, Ambysoft Inc. Since the Agile Manifesto was published over two decades ago there has been significant confusion over the role of architects and architecture in agile software development. This is due […]
Implementation of Enterprise Architecture (EA) tools is essential for organizations to navigate complex business processes and technology landscapes effectively. Doing so is a large undertaking and the sourcing and implementation of a tool can…
A couple of questions came in on my phone, and I thought I’d share my answers here.When is a Business Requirements Document good enough? Here are a few considerations to start withFit for purpose – What is the document going to be used for – plann…
A couple of questions came in on my phone, and I thought I’d share my answers here.When is a Business Requirements Document good enough? Here are a few considerations to start withFit for purpose – What is the document going to be used for – plann…
We tend to think of requirements as ‘incoming’ elements for our designs. But what we not always explicitly notice is that we also create many ‘outgoing’ requirements in our designs, often in the form of ‘constraints’ of the ‘users’ of the products that…
The increasing volume of data and regulations require organizations to prove to regulators what data their systems contain, and the path of this data. It is no longer enough to know and master the data, it is also necessary to describe their journey w…
Several times this week, in different circumstances, I was asked a question having these three words close together. That’s not new. It happened previously. But this concentration triggered the write-up that follows. Nothing original and neither is the reason to write it: Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no […]
I wanted to share some common issues I see when managing requirements in large projects. 1. The blur between the Architect and Project Manager Architects build architecture solutions, and if you read standards like ISO42010 its quite clear that designs…
I wanted to share some common issues I see when managing requirements in large projects. 1. The blur between the Architect and Project Manager Architects build architecture solutions, and if you read standards like ISO42010 its quite clear that designs have to meet the needs of the stakeholders and clearly stake how they do it. […]
I wanted to share some common issues I see when managing requirements in large projects. 1. The blur between the Architect and Project Manager Architects build architecture solutions, and if you read standards like ISO42010 its quite clear that designs…