Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
terracerulean If you sell a problem too successfully, you will not enjoy what comes next.
Enterprise Architecture doesn’t usually decide specific action.
So be very careful about how you characterise the need for action.
A problem-focus generates conflict and disor…
Buy-before-build is generally sound advice. But uncritical acceptance and use of this principle has created a cargo-cult mentality.
Gunnar Hellekso has written a great article about the Cult of the Product.
Compulsory reading for every Enterprise Archi…
The chance that your car might be washed away is not the only reason to avoid driving across a flooded road.
The greater danger is that the road under the flood waters has already been washed away.
How many large system projects fail because of unexpe…
Our relationship to technology isn’t only utilitarian.
It is also emotional.
Technology empowers us, it amplifies us in the world, and gives us super powers.
Maybe productivity is a not just a function of the design, but also of our attachment to it.
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“What is reification?
This is when ugliness of reality is eschewed in favor of a beautiful model. The model, created by great credentialed brains, is a jewel, an object of adoration so lovely that flaws noted by outsiders are seen as gratuitous insult…
When is Bike not a Business Rule.:
It’s an unexceptional and foundational principle that governance is about behaviour.
But behaviour is about intentions.
Governance machinery that focuses on behaviour to the exclusion of intentions destroys value.
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What is Enterprise Architecture?
Accurate. In plain English. Engaging presentation. You don’t need to work in information technology to understand it.
Warning: The visuals in this animation suggest that modularity is the way to reduce combinatorial co…
It is your Circus, and it’s always your Monkey: @elbanoitca says: There is a Polish expression for not my problem which translates literally as, “Not my Circus, Not my Monkey.”
Maybe, if you are a project manager. Never if you are an enterprise archi…
Enterprise architects need to be good communicators #2
Larry Wall, author of the PERL programming language once said,
People understand instinctively that the best way for computer programs to communicate with each other is for each of the them to be …