Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Richard Veryard In my post Getting the Big Picture, I included a pair of pictures from the Daily Mail showing a house from two perspectives – one bigger than the other. The Daily Mail labelled them as Advert and Reality, but as I pointed out at the time, but of cours…
#entarch @MartinHowitt writes “I’m fed up of being told that our IT systems suck. Want better ones? Spend some blinking money. That is all.”
@dougnewdick replies “To get better IT you need to spend money, but it doesn’t follow that if you spend money …
This post is about the proposed change to the British electoral system, from “First Past The Post” (FPTP) to “Alternative Vote”. British electors will have the opportunity to make a choice between these two (and no other) options in next week’s referen…
This post is about the proposed change to the British electoral system, from “First Past The Post” (FPTP) to “Alternative Vote”. British electors will have the opportunity to make a choice between these two (and no other) options in next week’s referen…
Black Swan theory (Wikipedia) tells us among other things that people tend to underestimate the probability of extremely rare events.
A corollary of this theory that is of particular interest to architects and complex system engineers concerns the des…
@Cybersal complains about Amazon. “Yet again Amazon ships a tiny book with an unreliable courier that my postman could have shoved through my letterbox.” and explains “Post office 10 min walk. Courier depot 30 min drive. Courier not a good option fo…
Interesting BBC programme In Our Time this morning about The Dawn of the Iron Age. Why and how did people start making ornaments and tools and weapons from copper and tin and lead? Because the ores were shiny, and it was easy to see how they could b…
@davidnasser @mingk @leebryant @kaldajani and many others have tweeted the following aphorism.
‘Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.”
Please permit me to quibble with this aphorism. Classify…
Interesting BBC programme In Our Time this morning about The Dawn of the Iron Age. Why and how did people start making ornaments and tools and weapons from copper and tin and lead? Because the ores were shiny, and it was easy to see how they could b…
@davidnasser @mingk @leebryant @kaldajani and many others have tweeted the following aphorism.
‘Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.”
Please permit me to quibble with this aphorism. Classify…
I’ve just been reading Geoffrey Moore’s new white paper Systems of Engagement and The Future of Enterprise IT : A Sea Change in Enterprise IT (AIIM 2011). He calls out a major shift of emphasis in IT, from what he calls Systems of Record (focused on tr…
#entarch #emergence #systemsthinking What is emergent architecture, and what are the practical implications for enterprise architecture?
In August 2009, Gartner produced a definition of “Emergent Architecture” with two synonyms (Middle-Out EA and …