19 days ago
Where are GPT and friends going?
What can we estimate about where the Generative AI innovation is going? Three useful links to articles that give interesting observations and insights.
Gerben Wierda
22 days ago
11 years, 11 months, 11 days
Today, it has been 11 years, 11 months, and 11 days since the first post on. this blog. The blog was called masteringarchimate.com and the first years the modelling language ArchiMate was the subject. To celebrate, I am today presenting my ArchiMate 3….
1 month, 2 days ago
Definition of Ready, Done? What about a ‘Definition of Broken’?
As the IT world has been largely taken over by Agile methods, the concepts of Definition of Ready and Definition of Done have become mainstream.
While these concepts were introduced at the story/sprint level in Scrum, they have taken on a wide role an…
4 months, 28 days ago
The lack of use cases for blockchain should teach organisations a valuable lesson about handling hypes
If someone tries to get you to invest in some shiny new technology — like blockchain 5-8 years ago — beware. How do you judge these proposals? A realistic use case is key.
5 months, 18 days ago
Cicero and chatGPT — signs of AI progress?
Cicero, a model by facebook Meta, was able to win from humans in one of the best board games in the world: Diplomacy, a very impressive feat. More on that below. Let’s move to chatGPT first, the language model that… Read More Cicero and ch…
6 months, 20 days ago
Follow-Up: The missing element of ‘Sunshine’ Life Cycle Management
A useful addition to the original concept of Sunshine-Life Cycle Management to help managing it all.
7 months, 6 days ago
On the Psychology of Architecture and the Architecture of Psychology
Advisors need (a) to know what they are talking about and (b) be able to convince others. For architects, the first part is called ‘architecture’ and the second part could be called ‘the psychology of architecture’.
We tend to do that already, but mos…
7 months, 10 days ago
Mastering ArchiMate PDF 3.2 Upgrade policy
The Open Group has published a minor update to the ArchiMate® standard. It is now version 3.2. This short post explains the upgrade policy for the PDF version of the Mastering ArchiMate book.
9 months, 10 days ago
Layering — is it really a useful approach in Business/IT/Enterprise Architecture?
Is layering — e.g. the classic BDAT (Business, data, Application, Technology) stack — really useful in Enterprise Architecture? An analysis with some side nodes about ArchiMate.
10 months, 23 days ago
It is life, Jim. But not as we know it.
Blake Lemoine, a Google engineer, has claimed the LaMDA language neural net chatbot is sentient, is alive. Nonsense on stilts, according to one critic.
A musing about the meaning of ‘life’. And abortion. And doubt. And the point Lemoine has but doesn…
11 months, 1 day ago
Let’s bury NIST’s outdated definition of Cloud Computing
The NIST definition of Cloud Computing from 2011 has now become so much an oversimplification that it is more often than not unhelpful, e.g. when trying to base your policies on it. Cloud or not-cloud was important when we had no clue what we were deal…
11 months, 24 days ago
Will McKinsey be the first ‘big consultancy’ that gets (enterprise) architecture right?
McKinsey seems to be the first ‘big consultancy’ that really frees itself from outdated, ineffective, orthodox enterprise architecture notions.