Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Current mainstream enterprise-architecture [EA] is broken, more broken and yet more broken, and has real problems with wickedness. But what can we do about this? How can we mend EA, make it unbroken? As in those posts linked-to above, I’d…
How do we cope with the wickedness of enterprise-architecture? I don’t mean here the implicit wickedness of people promoting term-hijacks and other half-baked notions as ‘the truth’ of enterprise-architecture – though heaven-knows there’s enough of that wickedness around. I also…
The SOA-paradigm has gained wide spread adoption over the last few years. With good reason: it has long been recognized that decoupling application logic from the specific way/ place where it is implemented has numerous benefits. In the same vain: port…
Most Common Words used in EA Voices (without normal stop words): business (1519) enterprise (1509) architecture (1486) time (1071) need (1006) new (972) work (950) way (949) people (918) information (833) management (825) process (811) value (785) different (760) based (737) change (736) technology (726) good (707) systems (684) 00
Today, I celebrate 20 years of service at the British Columbia Institute of Technology. When I joined BCIT on August 31, 1992, I was in my late 20′s. I had been married for 4 years and we had a baby girl who was just over a year old. I started as…
How did enterprise-architecture get to be so broken? I know I promised to move on to tactics that we can use to recover from the brokenness – and I will do so in the next post. But I must admit…
System Dynamics model for adoption of a new product (source: Patrhoue)System Dynamics, a field invented by MIT professor Jay Forrester, was created by adapting engineering control theory into social-economic domains. It was first used to solve su…
System Dynamics model for adoption of a new product (source: Patrhoue)System Dynamics, a field invented by MIT professor Jay Forrester, was created by adapting engineering control theory into social-economic domains. It was first used to solve su…
If the mainstream approach to enterprise-architectures is broken – and so badly broken, at that – then why is it broken? In what way is it broken? What are the core reasons behind why it’s so broken? And why ask this?…
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.
“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.
It started with an anguished Skype-call from a colleague: “Have you seen this?”, he said. He was pretty upset about it: and after reading the post he’d pointed to, so was I. One of the major consultancies – a self-styled ‘thought-leader’…