Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Eric Meredith The background: My wife has been a Type 1 Diabetic for 50 years. Most of us have heard of Diabetes but only know half the story – the half that says, if a Diabetic’s blood sugar drops they need something sweet (like orange juice) to bring it up. Th…
Do you actually read your own emails before your send them? Really? Seriously? It’s not possible.
It has happened again. I try to be mild mannered. I do, I really really do. But there are days when the surplus of insanity overwhelms my capacity …
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…
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 just …
I’ve had the opportunity to attend at least one Enterprise Architecture forum / workshop / conference every year for the past ten, a few of them as a speaker. I recently had the good fortune to be among a group of contest evaluators, reviewing subm…
Did you know that terms like “Fortnight” and “Ounce” indicate units of time? Furthermore, did you know that seemingly ambiguous terms like “Moment” have actual measurable, concrete definitions? Did you also know that finding arcane facts…
One of my favorite surveys I use when talking to a large audience, is to have the house lights brought up and then ask, “Would everyone here who personally thinks that they are irresponsible and unreasonable, please raise your hand.” It always ge…
I’ve tried explaining my job as an Enterprise Architect to a number of people, including my parents, and after I’m done I get that “sure, whatever you say” kind of a look.
I’ll not delve into my job description here, except to say that a s…
I did well in school (after High School cough, cough). I especially liked the sciences and courses that involved analytical thinking.
If A = B, and B = C, then A= C.
This is a simple axiom that most of us learned when we took that one required …
As a young man, Dad taught me how to shake someone’s hand. Line up the thumb slots; make sure the fingers wrap around the pinky, hold firmly but don’t squeeze; pump the hand three times. My older brother showed me an alternate handshake that involved…
For 34 minutes the Super Bowl was suspended; which is OK, because it’s not like it’s the most watched sporting event in the United States. It was a cloudless night with a bright ¼ moon; giving those OUTSIDE the domed stadium some measure of ligh…
I rarely have trouble sleeping, but when I do it’s over topics like; which is more important, the bow or the arrow? A crayon or a coloring book? A recipe or a stove? Both! Neither! Aaggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Each of the above is important, and w…