Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
The notion of an Enterprise Architect in a Segment (aka “Segment Architect”) has been fairly well described in for the Federal Enterprise Architecture Framework. (FSAM reference). It is not always well understood, and there are …
NCIS is the name of a quasi-cop show on CBS that stars Mark Harmon as Special Agent Gibbs who leads a team of investigators that solve crimes involving military personnel. Gibbs has a hobby of building boats in his basement; not little toy boat…
NCIS is the name of a quasi-cop show on CBS that stars Mark Harmon as Special Agent Gibbs who leads a team of investigators that solve crimes involving military personnel. Gibbs has a hobby of building boats in his basement; not little toy boat…
Large technology organizations don’t simply become agile. They’re either agile or not. If they’re not, the path to being so is via change, often radical change at that.
In the one comment made to the earlier post Architecture in Context [Revision 1], different aspects are put forward that I also see as key elements in a defining story but in quite different ways as proposed. One, on which … Continue reading →
We’ve all been watching the events in Japan recently and felt the shock of seeing the devastation of the earthquake and resulting tsunami. As of this writing there are still untold victims needing to be rescued. But there is one element of the di…
Anything IT does should be seen as consistent. Using words like “Principle” with the definition most people have for it is a sure-fire way to disappoint folks. It turns out that instead of a iron clad ‘always-will-do’ thing, our Principles are merely s…
Just reading through a LinkedIn thread on “the biggest problem facing Enterprise Architecture,” and I noticed one response that struck a chord. Charles Wade stated the biggest problem as: “Practicality! We spend allot[sic] of time in the Iv…
A co-worker and I spent an hour doing something innovative… and no, it was not part of a “Google 20% strategy.” We spent an hour discussing PKI, personal identity, and trust of both “passive content” (like documents) and “active conte…
I cannot take credit for that aphorism… credit goes to Jan Van Til. He coined the term after reading Tom Graves’ excellent post on the architecture of responsibility. Tom’s post details the philosophical challenges of a responsibility…
What data do we use to make decisions? Do we rely on the most up to date information possible? Do we use rough approximations? How do we reason about our decision thinking. Taking a concrete example first, I will then look for further insights and, of …
What data do we use to make decisions? Do we rely on the most up to date information possible? Do we use rough approximations? How do we reason about our decision thinking. Taking a concrete example first, I will then look for further insights and, of …