Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Fitness of complex adaptive systems (CAS) is an area of research that I have been studying over the last few years, specifically how these systems are structured and how they behave.
One of the characteristics of a CAS …
Fitness of complex adaptive systems (CAS) is an area of research that I have been studying over the last few years, specifically how these systems are structured and how they behave.
One of the characteristics of a CAS …
There are a couple of avoidable behaviors that architects sometimes adopt that generally annoy project teams.
The first is “nick picking” – identifying an apparent issue and then drilling down into it to minute detail. It …
There are a couple of avoidable behaviors that architects sometimes adopt that generally annoy project teams.
The first is “nick picking” – identifying an apparent issue and then drilling down into it to minute detail. It …
Managers do not need enterprise architects to talk like them, they need us to talk to them. Recently I received a link to a challenge on LinkedIn, posted by Kevin Smith, to describe the purpose of enterprise architecture in the 160 characters allowed …
Technology that asserts itself over the purpose for which it was designed, … and needs to be configured, managed, and optimised will be its own anti-pattern. We want … ‘invisible’ technology and … immediate and direct exp…
Thank you to Karen Lopez for finding and praising a blog post by Anith Sen. He writes about database design errors, Karen disagrees with some of Anith’s conclusions in her blog which goes to illustrate that design is a mix of art and science…
Thank you to Karen Lopez for finding and praising a blog post by Anith Sen. He writes about database design errors, Karen disagrees with some of Anith’s conclusions in her blog which goes to illustrate that design is a mix of art and science…
Tom Graves has summarised the differing roles of architects and designers in his blog What’s the difference between architecture and design?. It is an ongoing irritation to me that the two are confused. This not only devalues both dis…
Tom Graves has summarised the differing roles of architects and designers in his blog What’s the difference between architecture and design?. It is an ongoing irritation to me that the two are confused. This not only devalues both dis…