The BTABoK and Agents
By Paul Preiss, of Iasa Global I have been getting a lot of questions lately about how architecture fits with agents, and honestly the questions are mostly the same question. Somebody has been told by […]
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Closing the Technology Architect Gap Starts With Building a Mentor Pipeline
By Paul Preiss, of Iasa Global I am unsettled this week. I sat down again and did a piece of arithmetic I have been dodging for about a decade. Ive been saying for years that […]
It’s Time to Stop Chasing Technology Fads and Start Building a Profession
By Paul Preiss, of Iasa Global I’ve been sitting here for a while struggling with a feeling I couldnt explain, a sense of shared fantasy and shared lies, repeating over and over in my head. […]
The System Made Sense When We Built It
By Paul Preiss, of Iasa Global The system made sense when we built it. Three years later it is the thing we most dread working on. The database tables stopped reflecting how the business thinks […]
Business Models Should Drive Every Context View and Decision
By Paul Preiss, of Iasa Global Most architects treat the context view as a technical artifact. Draw the system box. Add some arrows. Label the external systems. Done. But a context view that isn’t anchored […]
Why Senior Engineers Are Looking Hard at Architecture Right Now
By Paul Preiss, of Iasa Global I’ve been having a lot of conversations with senior developers and engineers over the past year or so. Good conversations. The kind where people are actually trying to work […]
Architects Are Not Here to Keep the Lights On
By Paul Preiss, Iasa Global There are two roles in building a building… the innovator and the inspector. Which one do you want to be? There is a persistent idea, and I hear it from […]
Isabella Had a Strategy. Columbus Had to Figure It Out on the Way.
By Paul Preiss, of Iasa Global Isabella of Castile did not sail anywhere. She funded the expedition, weighed the risk, allocated the resources, and waited for a return. She was excellent at investment planning. Columbus, […]
The Architect Reborn
By Paul Preiss How the Fall of Agile and the Rise of AI Are Reinstating the Most Important Role in Technology – The architecture profession has been in structural decline for fifteen years. The Making […]
Heineken’s Schilperoord Talks About Being a Chief Architect and His Involvement with Iasa Global
By Holt Hackney Arno Schilperoord, Director of Global Architecture & Innovation at Heineken, sits at the center of one of the world’s most complex digital transformation efforts. With responsibility spanning enterprise architecture and innovation m…
We Are Leaving the Enterprise Behind
By Paul Preiss When I started as an architect, there was only one place to find the really hard problems or the really fun ones. And that was the big company… the enterprise. That was […]
Adobe Chief Architect Mark Clifton Discusses Career, Trends and Why the CAF Matters
By Holt Hackney As AI, cloud computing and digital platforms revolutionize enterprise technology, the role of a chief architect has evolved much more than just technical ability at best as they now represent a relationship […]