Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Gerben Wierda When (new) technology is concerned, I observe that there are three types of people involved. Those whose eyes ‘glaze over’. Those whose eyes become like saucers. Those whose eyes narrow. Who should be the advisor of the decision makers?
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…
What can we estimate about where the Generative AI innovation is going? Three useful links to articles that give interesting observations and insights.
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….
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…
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.
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…
A useful addition to the original concept of Sunshine-Life Cycle Management to help managing it all.
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…
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.
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.
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…