The Art of Enterprise Architecture has been published

Yippee! After so many years it’s finally available on the shelves (well at least the digital shelves). If anyone would come across a copy on a book shelf in a physical book store please comment a picture to this post and you’ll make me a very happy architect. Thanks a million to all of you […]

Consumable architectures

Each dimension has its own architecture. Each architecture has its own lifecycle. Each architecture is part of the whole. Each architecture can be related to a set of solutions. Each solution can be related to a set of architectures. Careful consideration must be taken to the relative speed to which any one architecture is consumed […]

Publishing The Art of Enterprise Architecture

As some of you may be aware of I with the help of a wonderful set of people has been reviewing the final script for the book The Art of enterprise Architecture (working title). The plan is to have the book ready to be delivered in time for Christmas, just so you may all either […]

How would you know that the architecture is right?

Not a simple question to answer, but perhaps we can find some guidance in Aldo Leopold’s statement “A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tend otherwise.” Transforming that statement into architecture for the enterprises could be done in many […]

The demographics of the enterprise

Have you ever thought of the demographics of the enterprise, how people and applications of technology fluctuate across the timeline, ever close and dependent but never the same. It is as if they where different population groups within the corporate context, struggling for the ultimate right to power. Both entities feeding of the memes that […]

Something to think about

Morpheus: The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you’re inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them […]

An awesome quote and a book tip

“If a factory is torn down but the rationality which produced it is left standing, then that rationality will simply produce another factory. If a revolution destroys a government, but the systematic patterns of thought that produced that government are left intact, then those patterns will repeat themselves… There’s so much talk about the system. […]