1 year, 5 months ago
John A. Zachman: Agile at 82 (85)
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.
Agile and Architecture
1 year, 5 months ago
“Architecture in an Age of Agile” is online
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…
2 years, 3 months ago
Prioritising Architecture and Debt with “Dado’s Diagram”
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…
2 years, 4 months ago
Agile, Dirt, and Technical Debt
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…
2 years, 4 months ago
Prioritising Architecture under Agile
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…