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Paul Preiss

Managing Technical Debt the Right Way

2 months ago2 months ago by Paul Preiss

By Paul Preiss Let’s be honest: most organizations don’t really manage technical debt. They track it like a credit card balance that never gets paid down, piling up until the interest eats away at innovation, […]

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Delivering Radical Pragmatism

2 months ago by Paul Preiss

By Paul Preiss, of Iasa Global I’ve been in enough boardrooms, war rooms, and “innovation labs” to know the truth: architects often get rewarded for sounding right, not for actually getting anything real done. Frameworks […]

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The Lifecycle Is Where Architecture Lives (and Wins)

3 months ago by Paul Preiss

By Paul Preiss Every architecture you’ve ever touched has a life. It starts with a spark of an idea — maybe on a napkin, maybe in a three-day workshop — and it travels through strategy, […]

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Embracing the Red Thread of Architecture

8 months ago by Paul Preiss

By Paul Preiss There are several tools that exist for architects to create/design, communicate and assess their architectures more effectively. The vast majority of the BTABoK is actually focused on what we call the Red […]

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Healthy Technical Debt Part 1

8 months ago by Paul Preiss

By Paul Preiss Many of you who read my blog will raise your hand when I ask who owns a home. But when I ask who really owns a home, most of those hands will […]

Categories #eavoices, Applications & Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Elevating Architecture, Strategy Planning, Technical Debt Tags #eavoices, Software

Making Architecturally Significant Decisions

8 months ago by Paul Preiss

By Paul Preiss Architecturally significant decisions (ASDs) are “the stuff that matters” as Martin Fowler describes it. They describe the scope and boundaries of a decision that will have significant impact on the outcomes of […]

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DDS – Bounded Context Canvas and Capabilities

8 months ago by Paul Preiss

By Paul Preiss The Bounded Context Canvas fits into strategy and execution by helping to develop a shared understanding of a system and its business context we are building. This shared understanding is essential for […]

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Navigating Hope and Fear in a Socio-Technical Future

July 31, 2024 by Paul Preiss

By Paul Preiss I was just finishing a talk on Living with Legacy, which covers a great number of concepts related to maintainability and viability in legacy systems at UberConf in Denver when all of […]

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