Enterprise Architecture

The Complicated Complexity Confusion Principle Complexity is an…

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The Complicated Complexity Confusion Principle

Complexity is an objective quality of the real world. Complexity expresses itself in the wonderful behaviour of systems.

Complicated is a psycho-social phenomenon. It is a missmatch between the complexity of the world and our ability to understand and control it. Complications express themselves as confusion. 

Confusing the two is the anti-pattern. It expresses itself in two ways.

  1. As an attempt to lower complication by reducing complexity. So reducing the functionality of the system. 
  2. As an attempt to reduce complexity by simplifying its human representation. So creating a potentially dangerous ignorance of the system. This version is sometimes called Magical Simplification.

“Anti-Collaboration and the Hungry-Hippo Secret Society.”

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“Anti-Collaboration and the Hungry-Hippo Secret Society.”

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Trapped inside their plastic bubble-land, committed forever to competing for access to worthless inedible coloured plastic baubles that represent to them a measure of status, members of the hungry-hippo secret-society collaborate in isolation from the world around them, waiting for their plastic environments to be exhalted as wonderful contributions to the mission, the project, the policy, the business requirements, the strategy, or whatever it is these self-professed dippy maven-muppets believe they are achieving without consultation, without reflection, and without harnessing the power and good intentions of the collective.

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Hungry Hippo

The Enterprise Architecture Definition Collection – Part III

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This is Part III of my collection of enterprise architecture definitions. Parts I and II can be viewed here and here. It’s interesting, at least to me, to get a sense for all the different definitions of enterprise architecture out…