Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
In the last fifty years the IT in the enterprise grew from punched cards to in-house mainframes and then to many air conditioned and secured floors of racks of servers and switches.
Then, the IT overflowed into at least two data centres, one of which f…
By The Open Group The term “disruption” has been the de rigueur description for what’s been going on in the technology industry for a number of years now. But with the pressures of a digital economy facing all industries now, … Continue reading →
Our series of four webinars with Milan Guenther is now available for viewing at any time.
The webinars cover these topics:
Reinventing IT: How Strategic Enterprise Design Leads Digital Transformation
Experience Mapping: Customer Obsession for…
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[Note: Originally published on my business technology blog, elemental links, March 2014.] Not everyone can be a specialist, and that’s a good thing. Four good sources on why we still need polymaths (generalists, versatility) in an age of increasing specialization, and complexity. For natural polymaths, check out the bonus link on Maya Angelou, and then … Read more
This is an attempt to get back towards ‘Normal Service Will Be Resumed…‘ – I don’t know how coherent it will be, but it’s a start, anyway… Over the past few weeks I’ve had a stream of very good questions from Eric…
We’re two days away from what will almost certainly be one of the greatest blunders ever to impact the US, and possibly the world as well. Here in Britain, we have a similar blunder that is fast approaching its endgame.…
When we think about supporting Business Transformation, we immediately start with the detail. Architects and analysts dive into the nuts and bolts, create some brilliant ‘technical designs’ and models but to non-architects, it often appears as “just boxes and lines”. In this blog I will explain some simple techniques to help bridge the gap.
One of the benefits of being a regular on Tom Cagley’s Software Process and Measurement (SPaMCast) podcast is getting to take part in the year-end round table (episode 426). Jeremy Berriault, Steve Tendon, Jon M. Quigley and I joined Tom for a discussion of: Whether software quality would be a focus of IT in 2017 […]
Algorithmic business is an area on the up and coming. However when you look at algorithms that are of any use you will see that most vendors always concentrate at a handful plus some algorithms from game theory. So if you want to explore the area of business algorithm architecture I recommend that you read … Continue reading Algorithmic business →
Confronted with the problems of Waterfall approaches, organisations are all jumping on the Agile bandwagon. This is often a very good thing. Big Up-Front Design (BUFD) has many drawbacks in volatile environments and much of what happens in IT happens … Continue reading →
My youngest son has recently fallen in love with the idea of being a storm chaser when he gets older. Tweet storms are more my speed. There was an interesting one last week from Sarah Mei regarding the contextual nature of assessing design quality: Context is a recurring theme for me. While the oldest post […]