Scalability

Alan Kay, in his keynote speech on Oopsla 1997 talked about the primary need for software development to deal with scalability. We develop tools for making models (and software) that are very suitable to build dog houses. The misconception is that building larger structures (scaling up) entails nothing more than scaling up the dog house […]

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How to build a Roadmap – Define Current State

This post will provide a little more exposition and insight into one method I have found useful in practice for quickly defining current state. Done well, it can provide an honest and objective look in the mirror to successfully understand where we truly are as an organization and face the uncomfortable truth in some cases where we need to improve.

Questions to EA researchers

Enterprise architecture research is on my agenda these days. I would very much like to hear from scholars with views on things like: Which journals should enterprise architecture researchers read? (apart from JEA) Which journals should enterprise architecture researchers publish in? (apart from JEA) Which conferences should enterprise architecture researchers attend? Other relevant information about enterprise architecture …read more

The perfect abstractions or just Lost In Translation?

All people have their own “filters” that they apply unconciously in interactions with other people. This means that two people sharing the same experience can have different opinions on what actually happened. In order to better understand each other we need to realize these differences in perception. As architects we also apply filters to our surrounding […]

Survey: What Global CEOs Want from Technology

We recently peered into the minds of CEOs with operations in Asia Pacific to explore their priorities and pain points as part of this year’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit. The over 370 business leaders who responded to PwC’s 2012 APEC CEO Survey are hungry to harness the growth potential of the region. We asked them where technology and innovation are most needed in their organizations to solve problems and seize opportunities. Following are the […]

Fixing Flows

In my last post I was writing about GLUE or Architecture Diseases and apparently one of these diseases hit me recently. I was tasked to work on Application Lifecycle Management and in our Architecture Community we had some really great discussion on ho…

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Linking enterprise-architecture with solution-architecture

What are the respective roles of enterprise-architecture and solution-architecture? How do they relate with respect to each other – and with respect, too? I’ve been having a great back-and-forth on this on LinkedIn with Donald Lawn, an IT-oriented architect down