Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
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There is a point where unmanaged complexity becomes prionic.
At that point a crystalline logic takes over, and every thing that touches the tangle becomes transformed by the tangle to be a new part of the tangle.
That includes all attempts to control it.
At this point governance is a fools errand.
Your architecture review boards and your IT strategy boards will be assimilated.
(Photo: Complicated, Marco/Zak, 2007, some rights reserved)
There is a point where unmanaged complexity becomes prionic.At that point a crystalline logic takes over, and every thing that touches the tangle becomes transformed by the tangle to be a new part of the tangle.That includes all attempts to control it….
bakedidea:
No need to thank me, don’t worry this metamodel will be released under GPL. You can refer to it as ‘The Thing MetaModel’.
Some thoughts:
1) Some of the most effective architecture diagrams I’ve seen have been created using powerpoint obje…
Agile is a way of changing things.Agility is a quality of the things you want to change. If moving one block is going to bring down the tower, being agile won’t help much.And being agile doesn’t stop you building lots and lots of towers.Photo: Antony M…
Agility is the ability to change direction quickly.The paradox of agility is that it is that the slower you are moving the faster you can change direction.Just going really fast, in the belief that speed is agility, can lead to a nasty, sudden stop.Pho…
Horns, horses and wings exist.Unicorns do not.Just because you can talk about “proactive infrastructure”, a “dynamically configurable platform”, or “contextually aware flow routing”, doesn’t mean they exist.There are a lot of folk out there selling Uni…
How do you feel about using the same toothbrush as a stranger (after it is cleaned)?How do you feel about using the same fork as a stranger (say, in a cafe, after it is cleaned)?Framing is important because it affects how we feel and how we feel affect…
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(skiplumley’s question refers to this post: What is Architecture)
There isn’t any strong reason to avoid using the word essence to describe something definitive.
As long as we recognise that ‘essence’ is a philosophical term. It’s meaning depends on o…
From Baked Idea, this scathing critique of a favourite enterprise architecture cliche…
“Unless you are some sort of corporate stowaway that has secreted yourself into an organisation just for shits and giggles, you are part of ‘the busi…
It has been observed that…
Every institution tends to preserve the problem to which it is the solution.
When I think of enterprise architecture as an institution irony often ensues…
If thought precedes action, what idea does enterprise architecture move towards?
The clarity of a signal lifted out of the noise? Tidy cubicles or hacker spaces?
To find a form that accommodates the mess, that that now the task of the enterprise arc…