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Paul Preiss

Managing Technical Debt the Right Way

5 months ago5 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

6 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)

6 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

11 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

11 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

11 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

12 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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