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Gerben Wierda

“Architecture in an Age of Agile” is online

August 14, 2019 by Gerben Wierda

I’ve (finally!) posted the narrated presentation of a slightly adapted version of my keynote at the Enterprise Architecture Conference Europe 2018: “Architecture in an Age of Agile”. Both Architecture and Agile are important aspects o…

Categories #eavoices, Agile and Architecture, Enterprise Architecture Tags #eavoices

Another error corrected in my #ArchiMate 3.0.1 Reference Sheets

May 31, 2019 by Gerben Wierda

I’ve corrected another error (again reported by Alun Champion. Thanks!) in the ArchiMate 3.0.1 sheets. The Realisation from Technology Interface to Business Interface was in the sheet twice. Not a breach of the grammar, but better to have it fixe…

Categories #eavoices, Archimate, Using ArchiMate Tags #eavoices

To be and not to be — is that the answer?

March 13, 2019 by Gerben Wierda

If you believe much of the reporting done on quantum computing, it is around the corner. We look at how quantum computing works and how realistic it is that it will be available any time soon. With an small appendix on the continuum hypothesis.

Categories #eavoices, Background Knowledge Tags #eavoices

To be and not to be — is that the answer?

March 13, 2019 by Gerben Wierda

In a previous article that was about useful-to-know Achilles’ heels…

Categories #eavoices, On Slippery Ice Tags #eavoices

Error corrected in my #ArchiMate 3.0.1 Reference Sheets

January 19, 2019 by Gerben Wierda

I’ve corrected an error (reported by Alun Champion. Thanks!) in the ArchiMate 3.0.1 sheets (in the depiction of the Motivation aspect). This has been corrected. The corrected post with the downloadable PDF (print two-sided and laminate is the bes…

Categories #eavoices, Archimate, Using ArchiMate Tags #eavoices

Two Celebrations, and the New Year’s Eve #ArchiMate Quiz answer

January 15, 2019 by Gerben Wierda

Solution to the New Year’s Eve ArchiMate quiz and celebrating half a million views on this site and 200,000 for the animation.

Categories #eavoices, Discussing ArchiMate, Using ArchiMate Tags #eavoices

New Year’s Eve 2018 #ArchiMate Quiz

December 30, 2018 by Gerben Wierda

Thanks to Jean-Baptiste Sarrodie, the ArchiMate Forum Chair, at the close of yet another interesting year, I present you with a new ArchiMate Quiz question. The image — presented here in Mastering ArchiMate colours — is shown here: And the… Read…

Categories #eavoices, Archimate Tags #eavoices

Prioritising Architecture and Debt with “Dado’s Diagram”

October 1, 2018 by Gerben Wierda

The previous blog post introduced a way to use WSJF (Weighted Shortest Job First) in Architecture prioritisation settings. That approach does have something missing which my colleague Henk Dado‘s approach to prioritising the fixing of debt has: a…

Categories #eavoices, Agile and Architecture, Enterprise Architecture Tags #eavoices

Agile, Dirt, and Technical Debt

September 8, 2018 by Gerben Wierda

Our discipline has long been working with the concept of ‘technical debt’. Generally, technical debt is a (often hidden, but not always) defect of some substantial scale. There is substantial effort involved in repairing the debt, otherwise…

Categories #eavoices, Agile and Architecture, Enterprise Architecture Tags #eavoices

Prioritising Architecture under Agile

September 5, 2018 by 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…

Categories #eavoices, Agile and Architecture, Enterprise Architecture Tags #eavoices

Agile teaches us the true meaning of Architecture

September 1, 2018 by Gerben Wierda

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…

Categories #eavoices, Enterprise Architecture Tags #eavoices

Architecture principles considered harmful

August 30, 2018 by Gerben Wierda

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 …

Categories #eavoices, Architecture Principles, Enterprise Architecture Tags #eavoices
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