Cay Hasselmann

Have you wondered why CIOs do not become CEOs? What prevents them from achieving at the highest organisational levels? It’s because they don’t have their hands on revenue, unlike CMOs, CFOs, brand marketers, and sales directors. So all that remain in the realm of ICT are seen as purely administrative and like all administrative functions … Continue reading Key transformational steps of architecture away from ICT →

Studies with significant results often do not appear to be superior to studies with a null result with respect to quality of design. However statistically significant results have been shown to be three times more likely to be published compared to papers with null results. This also applies to all studies on architecture in the … Continue reading Gathering useful information →

In security engineering, security through obscurity is the use of secrecy of the design or implementation to provide security. A system relying on security through obscurity may have theoretical or actual security vulnerabilities, but its owners or designers believe that if the flaws are not known, then attackers will be unlikely to find them. A … Continue reading The logical problem of security architecture →

Every one and especially bloggers, as well as anyone wanting to sell their good or services likes to use a bit of sensationalism to get noticed. I for example often like to be controversial. Other mechanism I have come across are claiming something as new even if it has been around for a long time … Continue reading The dark side of sensationalism in architecture →

Pride is one of the things that we all need to certain degree unless we want to get into mental distress. So it is important that in architecture we are proud of what we are doing. However that pride usually leads us into several areas of prejudice that again is something to avoid as it … Continue reading Pride and Prejudice →

Currently you will find that many architects are being asked to work on productivity drives. The main reason for this is the the raging of the worldwide population and the fact that business growth will mainly happen in terms of productivity. Given the horrible state of productivity we are in at most countries it is … Continue reading Productivity versus efficiency →

First it is usually hard to to know if an architecture is good or bad  and often this is determined by current favourite thinking. Let’s just take integration with has run through a myriad of best practices and will continue to do so. So who is really to say if a message bus with endpoint … Continue reading Why a bad architecture is better than a consensus arrived one →

Usually most architecture developed to day is based on some kind of semiotics and relies on determination, correspondence and non cultural background. We are building this concept from the well respected sign language used everywhere in the world in terms of traffic signs. As such is the argument that since all people use 150 road … Continue reading Semiotics as the base how we model our world →

Architecture, especially business architecture, often happens in isolation as we always work in an open ever changing system, however the business case for architecture is to close the gap of isolation. Usually the easiest way is to avoid this isolation is by setting standards and governance. However the same standards are often those that are … Continue reading The danger of silo architecture →

I am not sure on how well you are still up to stats these days so let me first remind you that the regression towards the mean is the phenomenon that if a variable is extreme on its first measurement, it will tend to be closer to the average on its second measurement and if it … Continue reading Regression toward the mean →

Once you start working in architecture within a company you will find that when you have engineered a solution it is often taken on with a lot of support by management, but while that support is not withdrawn you will find it sidelined over the next time. The reason for that phenomenon is the difference in … Continue reading Engineering versus Management thinking →

The word architect comes like so many words from the greek where arkhitekton describes a carpenter master craftsman. The first time it was used in any literature was in the works of Vitruvius. At that point and architecture was described as as a cross between utility (or function) and beauty. In the following time structural … Continue reading Is architecture art? →