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Indranil Bhattacharya This article is also available as a PDF document. Could businesses benefit from applying different architectural styles to design systems in different areas of the enterprise, just as cities apply different architectural styles for designing Cathedrals, Town Halls, and Bazaars? Applying different architectural styles would practically imply that when designing a system for finance we […]
Using the analogy of the popular game of Tetris, this diagram explains the dynamic and ever-changing challenges of Enterprise Architecture through the use of a static picture. This diagram was originally created to explain the need for Enterprise Architecture to business executives at the C-Level of an organization (e.g. CEOs, CIOs, CFOs, etc.). The original […]
Continued from Part 2 (This blog post does not read very well if you haven’t already read Part 1 and Part 2). The full article is also available as a PDF document. Developing skills requires keeping the game alive A key requirement to develop gameplay skills is to keep the ball in play. Strokeplay that results in ending the […]
Continued from Part 1 (This blog post does not read very well if you haven’t already read Part 1). The full article is also available as a PDF document. Closed and forgiving environments breed bad habits Closed environments are those where the efforts of individuals within it are subject to little or no peer interactions. Forgiving environments are those […]
Could the sport of Squash also teach us some useful organizational lessons? While the analogies between learning Squash and developing professional skills aren’t exact, both involve similar processes. Competitive sports mean game players become serious about having fun. The same spirit of having serious fun is sometimes absent from compartmentalized workplaces, where work seems to […]
Purchasing a showroom kitchen can be an unpleasant experience, especially if you’re not sure of the value of what you are buying. Kitchen showrooms tend to have the atmosphere of a prestigious car dealership, perhaps because the price tag of a well-designed kitchen is similar to a mid-sized car. If you happen to linger at […]
Together with my colleagues Andre Kampert and Sergej van Middendorp, I am part of a new consulting practice named PerfectArch. All three of us are independent consultants, and having worked and collaborated with each other on assignments in the past, we wanted to formalize our collaboration as a brand. We had some ideas about the […]
High performance servers, cheap network storage, faster network connections, and improved peripheral performance have become subtle contributors for a culture of IT waste. System designers are increasingly relieved of the burden of designing efficient systems that utilize resources conservatively, and can easily fall back on platitudes like “just add more hardware”. A system designer may […]