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2 months, 10 days ago

Will McKinsey be the first ‘big consultancy’ that gets (enterprise) architecture right?

by Gerben Wierda

McKinsey seems to be the first ‘big consultancy’ that really frees itself from outdated, ineffective, orthodox enterprise architecture notions.

Categories Agile and Architecture, Architecture Principles, digital enterprise, Enterprise Architecture, Information Revolution, Management and Organisation, McKinsey Tags #eavoices
10 months, 22 days ago

Should you derive your IT Strategy from your Business Strategy? Probably not too much.

by Gerben Wierda

It is generally accepted that IT Strategy must follow Business Strategy. It seems a no-brainer. But is it? There are reasons to look at it differently, reasons that become more pressing as organisations become more digital.

Categories Agile and Architecture, Brittle Logic, Enterprise Architecture, Management and Organisation Tags #eavoices
1 year, 2 days ago

From Dark Scrum to Broken SAFe — some real problems of Agile-at-scale

by Gerben Wierda

There is a massive movement of organisations moving to agile-at-scale (e.g. SAFe). Ironically, it can turn into an organisation becoming one big ‘project’, the opposite of what agile wants to achieve.

Categories Agile, Agile and Architecture, DevOps, digital enterprise, Management and Organisation, SAFe Tags #eavoices
2 years, 11 months ago

John A. Zachman: Agile at 82 (85)

by Gerben Wierda

John Zachman is often called ‘the father of Enterprise Architecture’. Some will characterise his work as irrelevant and John a dinosaur. But he is surprisingly agile, in more ways than one.

Categories Agile and Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, modelling Tags #eavoices
3 years, 2 days ago

“Architecture in an Age of Agile” is online

by Gerben Wierda

I’ve (finally!) posted the narrated presentation of a slightly adapted version of my keynote at the Enterprise Architecture Conference Europe 2018: “Architecture in an Age of Agile”. Both Architecture and Agile are important aspects o…

Categories Agile and Architecture, Enterprise Architecture Tags #eavoices
3 years, 10 months ago

Prioritising Architecture and Debt with “Dado’s Diagram”

by Gerben Wierda

The previous blog post introduced a way to use WSJF (Weighted Shortest Job First) in Architecture prioritisation settings. That approach does have something missing which my colleague Henk Dado‘s approach to prioritising the fixing of debt has: a…

Categories Agile and Architecture, Enterprise Architecture Tags #eavoices
3 years, 11 months ago

Agile, Dirt, and Technical Debt

by Gerben Wierda

Our discipline has long been working with the concept of ‘technical debt’. Generally, technical debt is a (often hidden, but not always) defect of some substantial scale. There is substantial effort involved in repairing the debt, otherwise…

Categories Agile and Architecture, Enterprise Architecture Tags #eavoices
3 years, 11 months ago

Prioritising Architecture under Agile

by Gerben Wierda

In the previous story, Agile teaches us the true meaning of Architecture, I introduced a ‘new’ definition of Architecture: the design decisions that are hard to completely remove from implementations (or in short: that what is hard to chang…

Categories Agile and Architecture, Enterprise Architecture Tags #eavoices

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