Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Some architects may be familiar with Amdahl’s law that looks at the maximum improvement when only a part of the system can be optimised, as it is often used in parallel computing processing. The important part here of Amdahl’s law is to see that savings in part of a system usually will show that to … Continue reading Savings →
Srinidhi Boray | Ingine, Inc | Bioingine.com Introducing, Ingine, Inc. it is a startup in its incipient stages of developing BioIngine platform, which brings advancement in data science around Interoperability. Particularly with healthcare data mining and analytics dealing with medical knowledge extraction. Below are some of the lessons learned discussed while dealing with the healthcare […]
I’ve just finished writing a fascinating Report for Cutter Consortium about Business Patterns and EA. For some time now I’ve been working with EA practitioners who are taking advantage of information that has already been gathered by people from backgrounds other than EA. The EA role then becomes one of converting or translating this information…
In the book, I’ve written about several standard instruments of the orthodox enterprise architecture approach. One of these is the use of ‘architecture principles’. I’m convinced, personally, that these often do more bad than good and this has to do … Continue reading →
I wrote in an email to a colleague today that the work we had just completed had been fun. I meant it, yet as i wrote the words i felt a jarring semi-cringe that this isn’t the sort of word i should use when communicating about er grown up stuff, like, you know, strategy and transformation and other grown up words.
But i ignored the semi-cringe of dissonant colloquialism and sent the email anyway. However, it did make me think.
We spend 90,000 hours at work. Why is our work not more fun? Why did i feel for a split-second that the use of the word may not be appropriate.
For me, if myself and the people i work with have found the work we are doing fun, then surely there can be no greater plaudit. The Business of Fun for me is about thinking the following things at the end of a project:
None of the above is frivolous, all the bullet points above are aspects of doing good work!
So Fun = Good work.
My aim is to continue having fun at work and to make sure those that i work with have fun to. because i know if its fun then its good work.
The next question is, how can you put in place an environment to increase the ratio of Fun:Not fun work? I’ll probably explore this in future posts.
New updated edition now in book The second edition of our book is now published and available. Here is a brief summary of what you can expect: A new title: Enterprise Architecture – the Eight Fundamental Factors. A major rewrite and rearrangement of the content, new content, and additional diagrams and charts. Practical advice, examples and case…
A lot of architecture such as with UML builds on an actor model. Also when we model and improve business processes a solid understanding of various attribution errors should be standard in the assessment. However I have usually not seen even the most common techniques of the actor observer asymmetry taken into account. Actually the … Continue reading Attribution error in architecture →
The most important thing to learn about management and governance is knowing when and how to manage or govern and more importantly, when not to. The story is told about a very new and modern penal facility, the very epitome of security and control. Each night, precisely at 11:00 PM, the televisions were shut off […]
By The Open Group When Matthew Heard first heard the term TOGAF®, not only did he have no idea what it was but he misspelled the name of the standard at first. It wasn’t until after searching Google for “TOGATH” … Continue reading →
Whatever business you are in, information is the most important raw material there is and it should be understood by many. Using tools like the entity card is one way of communicating on relatively stable information structures, there are other ways. People may say this is hard and takes a lot of time todo. To them […]
Whatever business you are in, information is the most important raw material there is and it should be understood by many. Using tools like the entity card is one way of communicating on relatively stable information structures, there are other ways. People may say this is hard and takes a lot of time todo. To them […]
Although Application Portfolio Management (APM) isn’t the newest kid on the block, it has had a tremendous growth in popularity lately. Due to the economic crisis and market pressures in general, IT managers and architects are constantly pushed by their CxO’s to reduce inefficiencies, improve agility of the enterprise and cut costs. The complexity of these tasks leads to an increasing need for tools and structures to help them handle their application landscape. Since over 70% of most IT budgets goes to maintaining existing applications, it is clear that there is a need for oversight and insight in the use of these applications and their added value, to reduce costs and make room for innovation.