Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Everyone in the agile community will understand this (I expect ;-)). If we talk about “managing” we agilists understand that the team “manages” itself. That difference with “traditional” projects, managed by a project leader or -manager, is constantly emphasised by scrum pundits. This article is not for that in-crowd but for people attempting to understand […]
Currently scrambling through a swathe of slidedecks and suchlike… – that’s me getting ready for my upcoming ‘Antipodean Tour’, with a wide range of sessions on enterprise-architecture and related themes currently booked for various dates and places in Melbourne, Sydney…
In security engineering, security through obscurity is the use of secrecy of the design or implementation to provide security. A system relying on security through obscurity may have theoretical or actual security vulnerabilities, but its owners or designers believe that if the flaws are not known, then attackers will be unlikely to find them. A … Continue reading The logical problem of security architecture →
As with all small independents in just about any industry, my /our relationship with ‘the big boys’ in enterprise-architecture is, yeah, kinda ambivalent at best. It’s not just that they make the most noise, grabbing most of the attention and…
The paradigm change is that the enterprise contracts and pays for a service rather than for the administration of a team/circle that delivers it. The enterprise signs a contract with a service delivering entity rather than separate contracts with team/…
Holacracy is at times over specified, over-prescribed. Is it really part of an organizational design method to establish rules for meetings as it is the case for Holacracy?
Chess and the Art of Enterprise is now also available as PDF for those who like to read it on a device instead of on paper. This version looks exactly like the paper version (which means: more elegant than the iBook). … Continue reading →
Every one and especially bloggers, as well as anyone wanting to sell their good or services likes to use a bit of sensationalism to get noticed. I for example often like to be controversial. Other mechanism I have come across are claiming something as new even if it has been around for a long time … Continue reading The dark side of sensationalism in architecture →
On the awesome site Genius.com people have gathered some amazing lectures of starting up a business. The lecturers are some of the most famous and successful people in business today. Lecture 1: How to Start a Startup by Sam Altman Lecture 2: Ideas, Products, Teams and Execution Part II by Sam Altman Lecture 3: Counterintuitive Parts of Startups, and How to Have Ideasby Paul Graham […]
On the awesome site Genius.com people have gathered some amazing lectures of starting up a business. The lecturers are some of the most famous and successful people in business today. Lecture 1: How to Start a Startup by Sam Altman Lecture 2: Ideas, Products, Teams and Execution Part II by Sam Altman Lecture 3: Counterintuitive Parts of Startups, and How to Have Ideasby Paul Graham […]
Come join your peers and Intact at the 2015 HP Software South Central User Forum.
On September 23rd, Intact will be sponsoring the HP Software User Forum in Austin, Texas
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Like all small independents in just about any industry, my relationship with ‘the big boys’ is ambivalent at best. All those big analyst-consultancies like Forrester or Gartner, the ratings-agencies like Moody’s or S&P, the big IT- or process-consultancies like IBM…