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Paul Preiss By Paul Preiss Medicine went through its version of this reckoning. Clinical practice had accumulated decades of treatments that practitioners recommended with confidence, based on training, professional consensus, and the authority of senior clinician…
By Paul Preiss, Iasa Global There are two roles in building a building… the innovator and the inspector. Which one do you want to be? There is a persistent idea, and I hear it from […]
By Paul Preiss, of Iasa Global Isabella of Castile did not sail anywhere. She funded the expedition, weighed the risk, allocated the resources, and waited for a return. She was excellent at investment planning. Columbus, […]
By Paul Preiss How the Fall of Agile and the Rise of AI Are Reinstating the Most Important Role in Technology – The architecture profession has been in structural decline for fifteen years. The Making […]
By Paul Preiss I had a conversation recently with someone running a small restaurant chain. Three locations. A loyalty system that does not talk to her inventory, a scheduling app that emails PDFs, and a […]
By Paul Preiss I have been thinking about this one for a while. Mostly because I keep watching organizations spend enormous energy designing services and then wondering six months later why nothing changed. The business […]
By Paul Preiss A new term has arrived in the software development conversation: spec-driven development (SDD). Tools such as Kiro (AWS’s agentic IDE, released 2025), spec-kit (GitHub’s open-source CLI, released September 2024), and the Tess…
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, […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]