Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
As an architect you are an emotional being, however most architects see themselves more of an objective personality, while they often find that other architects are far too emotional. This is nothing special and occurs with all professions that have a tendency for objectivity. This pattern is referred to as the hot-cold empathy gap or … Continue reading The emotional architect →
By The Open Group The value of UNIX, as a technology and as a standard, has clearly been significant over its 45-year history as a technology and its 20-years as an open standard leading to tremendous innovation across numerous industries. … Continue reading →
Organizations have always had to adapt to change in order to stay relevant, but in today’s fast-paced market, change is more necessary than ever. The ‘Digital Enterprise’ requires major business transformations, delivered at speed. The ‘unfreeze-change-refreeze’ model, reasoning from a stable current to a desired future state, no longer applies. Organizations in the ‘New Normal’ are in a constant state of flux. How can you change the way you handle change?
Recently announced Precision Medicine a fantastic mission to bring all the research institutions country wide to collaborate together and holistically solve the civilization’s most complex and pressing problem Cancer, employing genomics while engaging science in an integrative discipline approach. While the Precision Medicine mission is grand and certainly requires much attention and focus; that many new tools […]
AVG was a great anti-malware utility that I recommended to others for years. They’re not out of business, yet, but that may only be a quirk of timing. I was not only a user of their freeware product, I went the extra mile and paid for a two year subsc…
AVG was a great anti-malware utility that I recommended to others for years. They’re not out of business, yet, but that may only be a quirk of timing. I was not only a user of their freeware product, I went the extra mile and paid for a two year sub…
By The Open Group This summer The Open Group ArchiMate® Forum will make available the latest version of the ArchiMate Specification®, version 3.0, with a series of announcements and events to take place throughout the months of June and July. … Continue reading →
On June 14, The Open Group launched the new version of the ArchiMate modelling language for enterprise architecture at the Enterprise Architecture Conference 2016 in London. This is a new step in the development of a standard that started in Netherland…
After years of going back and forth to Latin America, I still struggle with the difference between para and por – both which sort-of align with the English word ‘for‘, but in different and often-confusing ways. Going the other way, though, the…
Another SCAN crossmap – this time with the Kolb Learning Styles model – that may well be useful in the knowledge-management and skills-development-space. It was first spotted by Archi co-developer Jean-Baptiste Sarrodie – many thanks, JB! I’ll let JB set…
Most architects easily forget that there is a mental impact on the people that will use our systems. The main influence here is usually called the automation-induced complacency or over-reliance on automation. We as human have the strange behaviour that we will always favour information from an automated system over all other information. An easy … Continue reading Psychological Impact of Solution Architecture →
From the Editor: Graham Berrisford from Avancier Ltd has provided…