Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
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 […]
The story behind this company and the individuals who designed this product and the enterprise that stands behind it is truly a story worth reading. P.S. Seriously, I’d like to own one of these designs. 
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 […]
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 […]
The world is complicated, it may even be down right complex sometimes. We all know this, but what we don’t know is that we don’t need to bring that in to the formulation of the basic questions we seek to answer. To keep it simple, here is five basic questions: Are we the right people […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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. […]
The only real difference between an business supervised by an entrepenur and a manager is that the entrepenur is driven by love and the manager is driven by fear.
In most architecture and project methodologies you are asked to create a communications package, naming stakeholders and activities on how you will address their needs. Rarely do I find that they try to secure that communications will go smooth. These are some ways that one can evaluate the communicative capability. – Document the positive and […]