Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
There are days when you just know you are right. It may not happen often, and certainly not with every topic, but it happens – and there is nothing more frustrating than knowing to the depths of your knowing-place that the path upon which others have…
While this book is not an architecture book, I’ve always maintained that architects need to be across the entire project delivery life cycle. So I think it’s relevant. I’ll start with the book’s shortcomings, but don’t let them put you off, as it does have something to offer. To be frank, the style is a […]
By Loren K. Baynes, Director, Global Marketing Communications, The Open Group The face of technology is evolving at breakneck speed, driven by demand from consumers and businesses alike for more robust, intuitive and integrated service offerings. APIs (application programming interfaces) … Continue reading →
Just thought I’d give a quick update on some of the work I’ve been doing here in Mexico with my colleague Michael Smith over the past couple of weeks. But first, in the tradition of Alex Osterwalder, here’s a panorama…
A few days ago I had posted some thoughts about relationship between an Architect role and an Engineer role. I had referred to the Zachman Framework to explain the trade-off and dependencies in these two important role profiles. The…
A few days ago I had posted some thoughts about relationship between an Architect role and an Engineer role. I had referred to the Zachman Framework to explain the trade-off and dependencies in these two important role profiles. The…
(Note: I’ve added an addendum to this post)
It has been many years that we have lived with the concept of technical debt. Martin Fowler did a good job of describing the concept in a 2003 article on his wiki. Basically, the idea is that you …
What’s the last stage of learning any skill? Answer: ya gotta teach it… And that’s exactly what I’ll be doing down in Australia, starting late next month. Some while ago I said that at last I’d Got Round To It…
By Dr. Chris Harding, Director for Interoperability, The Open Group The Open Group published a White Paper on Open Platform 3.0™ at the start of its conference in Amsterdam in May 2014. This article, based on a presentation given at … Continue reading →
I’ve commented on the questionable ethics of some consultants previously, but something I witnessed recently prompts me to revisit the issue. In the last three or so years in particular I suspect that I’ve witnessed, initially unnoticed, a growing tendency for consultancies to see clients’ projects increasingly in terms of cash flow and less as […]
In this article of HBR, Roger Martin argues that “Strategy is iterative protyping”. Is it really so?If strategy is considered at the product level prototyping is rather normal practice. In any serious enterprise, there usually are different e…
I am frequently appalled by the lack of rigor in this craft and this has been recently highlighted to me by a linguistic habit that I suspect comes from a younger generation. ( Sorry guys feel free to have a hack at the old bastard!) That is the use of the answer Yes/No to a […]