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Gerben Wierda

11 years, 11 months, 11 days

May 8, 2023 by Gerben Wierda

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….

Categories Archimate, Mastering ArchiMate Tags #eavoices

Definition of Ready, Done? What about a ‘Definition of Broken’?

April 28, 2023 by Gerben Wierda

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…

Categories Agile and Architecture, digital enterprise, Enterprise Architecture, Management and Organisation Tags #eavoices

The lack of use cases for blockchain should teach organisations a valuable lesson about handling hypes

January 2, 2023 by Gerben Wierda

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.

Categories blockchain, digital enterprise, Enterprise Architecture, For the Board, hype, intelligence, IT Strategy, Management and Organisation, Psychology Tags #eavoices, trust

Cicero and chatGPT — signs of AI progress?

December 12, 2022 by Gerben Wierda

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…

Categories AI, All Posts, Background Knowledge, Brittle Logic, For the Board, Information Revolution, Information Revolution 4 Tags #eavoices

Follow-Up: The missing element of ‘Sunshine’ Life Cycle Management

November 10, 2022 by Gerben Wierda

A useful addition to the original concept of Sunshine-Life Cycle Management to help managing it all.

Categories Enterprise Architecture, Management and Organisation Tags #eavoices

On the Psychology of Architecture and the Architecture of Psychology

October 24, 2022 by Gerben Wierda

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…

Categories AI, Enterprise Architecture, Management and Organisation, QM Computing Tags #eavoices

Mastering ArchiMate PDF 3.2 Upgrade policy

October 20, 2022 by Gerben Wierda

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.

Categories Archimate, Mastering ArchiMate Tags #eavoices

Layering — is it really a useful approach in Business/IT/Enterprise Architecture?

August 20, 2022 by Gerben Wierda

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.

Categories Archimate, Discussing ArchiMate, Enterprise Architecture, modelling Tags #eavoices

It is life, Jim. But not as we know it.

July 7, 2022 by Gerben Wierda

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…

Categories abortion, AI, All Posts, Brittle Logic, consciousness, GPT3, intelligence, LaMDA, language, logic, off topic, sentience Tags #eavoices, Life

Let’s bury NIST’s outdated definition of Cloud Computing

June 29, 2022 by Gerben Wierda

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…

Categories Enterprise Architecture, Management and Organisation Tags #eavoices

Will McKinsey be the first ‘big consultancy’ that gets (enterprise) architecture right?

June 6, 2022 by Gerben Wierda

McKinsey seems to be the first ‘big consultancy’ that really frees itself from outdated, ineffective, orthodox enterprise architecture notions.

Categories Agile and Architecture, Architecture Principles, digital enterprise, Enterprise Architecture, Information Revolution, Management and Organisation, McKinsey Tags #eavoices

Traduction des fiches Mastering ArchiMate

May 18, 2022 by Gerben Wierda

Je publie aujourd’hui une traduction française de mes fiches (PDF) de présentation ArchiMate, un guide visuel et concis de la grammaire ArchiMate. La première page contient le métamodèle du Cœur du framework ArchiMate. Il est représenté dans le jeu de&…

Categories #eavoices, Archimate, French, Mastering ArchiMate, modelling, Using ArchiMate Tags #eavoices
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