Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Our discipline has long been working with the concept of ‘technical debt’. Generally, technical debt is a (often hidden, but not always) defect of some substantial scale. There is substantial effort involved in repairing the debt, otherwise…
In today’s fast-paced world, you’d be hard-pressed to find an IT shop that isn’t at least experimenting with Agile. The pressure for IT to accelerate and innovate faster than ever before is real. But it’s not just IT that is fee…
In the previous story, Agile teaches us the true meaning of Architecture, I introduced a ‘new’ definition of Architecture: the design decisions that are hard to completely remove from implementations (or in short: that what is hard to chang…
Including the time dimension in Enterprise Architecture models enables the modeler to depict the interaction of the events, tasks, and actors depicted in the model in a way that indicates the order of the interactions. There are many diagrams or modeling options to chose from to illustrate timing of events within a system or process. A few favorites that are helpful in […]
What is architecture? Not of cities or buildings, but the organisational version: enterprise architecture, solution architecture, application architecture, software architecture, business architecture, infrastructure architecture? My neck hairs general…
Architecture principles are a very popular tool in the enterprise architect’s tool box. The underlying concept of ‘comply or explain’, however, makes them particularly toxic. [This article originally appeared on InfoWorld in 2015. It …
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Does your brand converse with customers, or are you the digital version of a boring, monologuing dinner party guest? Hashtag inventor Chris Messina discusses why relationship design is key to making brand conversation work. Featuring: Chris Messina, I…
Moving IT support for your business to the cloud means ‘our’ IT being hosted in a fragmented landscape of data centers. That only looks like a silver bullet if you are short sighted. [This article originally appeared on InfoWorld in……
There are many EA techniques that improve communication and collaboration between functions and teams – helping everyone to speak the same language. These techniques are vital for integration, standardisation, synergy, and reuse. Many of these ar…
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