Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Being 107 years old, you would think I have vivid memories of Radio Dramas. Unfortunately I have never heard the original radio broadcasts of the show “The Shadow”, but I understand its opening introduction used to say, “Who knows what evil lu…
One of the benefits of knowing you’re not the smartest person in the room (any room), is that you don’t have the pressure of constantly having to prove it. Long ago I accepted the distinction of being utterly average. I used to claim I was merely…
If you believe the popular media, 2013 was never supposed to happen. The Mayan culture had this all figured out, or maybe their Strategic Planning Group got axed due to budget cuts. Either way – 2013 was supposed to end in December of 2012. As it is,…
A few of you have noticed (and I guess that is a good thing) that I haven’t posted a blog entry recently. I just returned from a few continuous weeks of vacation. I try to lump my time off together to really decompress from the normal business cycl…
I’ve been brewing how to describe some key distinctions about the way we view our architecture, about how we see its role, and its relationship with everything else in its context. Seems to me that there’s a simple two-axis matrix we can use for this: where we focus – inside (centred on our own internal context) […]
As objectively reported here on a number of occasions, I am a mild mannered enterprise architect who often finds himself sucked into a cesspool of insanity and illogic. I don’t go looking for arguments, confrontation, and ambiguity, but somehow the…
As objectively reported here on a number of occasions, I am a mild mannered enterprise architect who often finds himself sucked into a cesspool of insanity and illogic. I don’t go looking for arguments, confrontation, and ambiguity, but somehow the…
Dateline: 1988, somewhere around the planet Mars. Russian Mars probe, Phobos 1, was ordered to commit suicide by a ground-based human controller who sent it the wrong commands which were meant to slightly adjust its trajectory. Control of the spac…
Dateline: 1988, somewhere around the planet Mars. Russian Mars probe, Phobos 1, was ordered to commit suicide by a ground-based human controller who sent it the wrong commands which were meant to slightly adjust its trajectory. Control of the spac…
I had the occasion to visit the Department of Motor Vehicles last week to update my drivers license with a new photo and a change of address. I entered the lobby area where there was a short line leading to a "Take a Ticket" machine. How hard could this be?
Curiously, it was taking some time for the customers to "take their tickets," leading me to ponder the average level of intellect found in
I had the occasion to visit the Department of Motor Vehicles last week to update my drivers license with a new photo and a change of address. I entered the lobby area where there was a short line leading to a "Take a Ticket" machine. How hard could this be?
Curiously, it was taking some time for the customers to "take their tickets," leading me to ponder the average level of intellect found in
April Fools day has been celebrated as far back as 1632, if you believe in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and bad math, or possibly as far back as 500 BC (if you are of Iranian descent). Regardless, it is a day to approach with some wariness if you ar…