Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
I was recently attending a business event and I was conversing with a gentleman who happened to be the head of human resources of his company, he was sharing with me that among his employees 15 percents were top performers. I happened to have in mind the statistics by Gallup[1] of the level of employees […]
This week’s episode of Tom Cagley’s Software Process and Measurement (SPaMCast) podcast, number 385, features Tom’s essay on Agile portfolio metrics, Kim Pries talking about the value of diversity, and a Form Follows Function installment on sense-making and decision-making in the practice of software architecture. Tom and I discuss my post “Architecture and OODA Loops […]
It was my grandmother’s 80th birthday. My parents wanted to make it a special occasion for her and for the family, so they booked us in for a meal at a place called Le Talbooth – then, as now, a decidedly…
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Comments on McKinsey’s article on “Nine questions to help you get your digital transformation right”
“Is your IT operating at two speeds?”
As much that sounds weird today, when Gartner talks about a “two mode IT”,
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Comments on McKinsey’s article on “Nine questions to help you get your digital transformation right”
“Is your IT operating at two speeds?”
As much that sounds weird today, when Gartner talks about a “two mode IT”,
Have you seen that large groups of people (especially men) can often make really bad decision or behave badly, while each single member of the group will never do anything so stupid? I think we have all seen this and if not just go back in history where you will see many example of this … Continue reading Stay away from large groups of architects →
From the Editor: Graham Berrisford from Avancier Ltd has provided…
From the Editor: Graham Berrisford from Avancier Ltd has provided…
It is said that Enterprise Architecture is a tool for transformation. it is among other things. Without an EA, a transformation is blind. It does not see the objects around and in its path. Thus, the transformation bumps into them or it fails to see th…
By Darrell May, Senior Principal Software Engineer, Oracle® Oracle® Solaris innovation is due in part to the UNIX® standard,[1] the test suites,[2] and the certification.[3] By conforming to the standard, using the test suites[4] and driving to certification, Oracle® Solaris … Continue reading →
You might perhaps describe this piece as “praising with faint damns” – but oh, it’s so nice to be able to say something nice for once about The Open Group! Okay, yeah, maybe a bit unkind to start this that…
“Do you have mechanisms to challenge ideas?”
“Are your people empowered to act?”