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All people have their own “filters” that they apply unconciously in interactions with other people. This means that two people sharing the same experience can have different opinions on what actually happened. In order to better understand each other we need to realize these differences in perception. As architects we also apply filters to our surrounding […]
What are the respective roles of enterprise-architecture and solution-architecture? How do they relate with respect to each other – and with respect, too? I’ve been having a great back-and-forth on this on LinkedIn with Donald Lawn, an IT-oriented architect down…
I was on a walk with my wife and our dog the other day and our conversation led to some of the problems we encounter at work. My wife is a Registered Nurse at a large acute care hospital. She has an amazing wealth of experience caring for very sick people. She told me about […]
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Are you annoyed when you stumble across yet another rant that appears to be full of emotion but is hardly presenting any insight in how it should bring any other relief than channeling the originator’s frustration? Or is simply hinting … Continue reading →
Definitions are attention-seekers. And good ones. They get much more attention than they deserve. I’ve just read a post by Nick Malik called Many (flawed) Definitions of Business Architecture. There he does a very good job of analysing the existing definitions of Business Architecture. He comes to the conclusion that all of them need to […]
Following on from the SCAN ebook, the next in the new series of ‘Tetradian Weblogs’ ebooks now hits the virtual streets – a selection of blog-posts on the Enterprise Canvas notation and model-type: Enterprise Canvas: the Tetradian weblogs Recommended price…
Not long ago, I attempted to create a refined definition of “business architecture.” I felt compelled to do so because the definition that I found in the Business Architecture Guild’s BizBOK (Guide to the Business Architecture B…
Yes, I know I tend to write long; some others, though, tend to write such short Twitter-length phrases that there’s a real risk that what they say may be lost in the noise. Here’s a real example of something that…
For quite some time now I’d promised to make some of my blog-posts here available in ebook format, as a more focussed and accessible means to help people make use of my material on enterprise-architecture and the like. So, as…
Just what are the deliverables of whole-enterprise architecture? In part this is a follow-on to the previous post ‘Ending the shoot-out at the EA Corral‘, about finding ways to end the seemingly ceaseless battles between those enterprise-architects who focus only on…
There is another way of running projects and that is to treat each project as an experiment within a set variance. If we do this then it becomes natural that the projects are mission based and thus find their own best way to the expected result. It has another effect and that is that it […]
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