Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
A new month brings a new appearance on Tom Cagley’s Software Process and Measurement (SPaMCast) podcast. This week’s episode, number 442, features Tom’s excellent essay on capability teams (highly recommended!), followed by a Form Follows Function installment based on my post “Systems of Social Systems and the Software Systems They Create”. Kim Pries bats cleanup […]
Martin Owen, Vice President of Product Management at ERwin, posts on LinkedIn that
“Enterprise Architecture is arguably one of those jobs that isn’t ever finished. But I’d argue that over analysis is just as damaging to a business as the…
The overriding theme of every disruption story I’ve ever heard is that firms thought they had more time than they did. So, I’ve been pondering the why. We can see disruption happening all around us, but why is it so difficult to get out in front of it?…
Martin Owen, Vice President of Product Management at ERwin, posts on LinkedIn that
“Enterprise Architecture is arguably one of those jobs that isn’t ever finished. But I’d argue that over analysis is just as damaging to a business as the…
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The Value of Architecture, Reference Architecture and Architecture Framework
Any system has an architecture. An enterprise does as well. For instance there are Bus and Star styles of architectures. One of these architecture patterns m…
There are many common sense reasons, such as predictability, repeatability, consistency, standardization etc., for the use of models, templates, standards, paterns, frameworks, reference or/and generic architectures. A class in OO (Objec…
In “Design thinking vs the lean startup: which one should you use?” Graham van der Made, editor of Ventureburn, the “Start up news for investment markets”, discusses the design thinking and the lean startup methods.
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These days, there is a lot of talk about the ‘API Economy’: a world filled with systems providing services to other systems using (above all RESTful) services. It would be easy to miss the fact that this isn’t new at … Continue reading →
In “Architecture is Dying – Why EA and Agile isn’t enough to stop Shadow IT”, Barry O’Reilly writes for IASA, “an association for all IT architects”, that “architecture is dying”…
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And yeah, this is where it gets seriously scary. Not just for me: for just about everyone. I mentioned in the previous post that “I hate the money-economy”. It might be useful if I explained why? — Yes, this is May Day. Beltane,…
And, yeah, this is where it gets kinda scary. For me, anyway… I hate the money-economy. (Understatement… But explaining that is for another post than this one.) The reality, though, is that I do have to find some way to work with…