Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Gerben Wierda In the previous story, Agile teaches us the true meaning of Architecture, I introduced a ‘new’ definition of Architecture: the design decisions that are hard to completely remove from implementations (or in short: that what is hard to chang…
What is architecture? Not of cities or buildings, but the organisational version: enterprise architecture, solution architecture, application architecture, software architecture, business architecture, infrastructure architecture? My neck hairs general…
Architecture principles are a very popular tool in the enterprise architect’s tool box. The underlying concept of ‘comply or explain’, however, makes them particularly toxic. [This article originally appeared on InfoWorld in 2015. It …
Moving IT support for your business to the cloud means ‘our’ IT being hosted in a fragmented landscape of data centers. That only looks like a silver bullet if you are short sighted. [This article originally appeared on InfoWorld in……
June 22, I posted another ArchiMate quiz question: ArchiMate Quiz: A Common Cause. It’s been a while, but here is the discussion of the ‘solution’. The quiz started with the following two ArchiMate snippets (in Mastering ArchiMate col…
It’s been a while (busy, busy) but I though this one would be a good candidate for another ArchiMate quiz. This time not “What is wrong with this picture’, but more, “This is grammatically correct, but why? And what does……
With the increase in regulations governing the privacy of personal…
With the increase in regulations governing the privacy of personal information, such as GDPR which came into effect last week, organisations of all types and sizes must now consider how they gather and use customer data. Some organisations are being&#x…
Nobody can deny that artificial intelligence (or machine learning, deep…
Nobody can deny that artificial intelligence (or machine learning, deep learning, or cognitive computing) is booming these days. And — as before, as this is in fact the second round for AI — the hype is almost unlimited. But there… Read More Som…
Agile and DevOps are on the rise. Hardly anyone these…
Agile and DevOps are on the rise. Hardly anyone these days defends up-front design approaches or project-based over product-based change. It seems to many that ‘agile’ is seen as a free pass for unlimited change. This is an illusion. Workin…