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I was very pleased to hear recently that one of the VPEC-T design patterns that we originally developed for Criminal Justice has been put to further good use: A group in UK government have been reviewing the activities and information sharing needs …
Every discipline is blighted by their own versions of an all-too-common problem: “For every difficult, complex, challenging question, there’s at least one clear, simple, easy-to-understand wrong answer”. In Australian parlance, that type of magnificently-misleading ‘wrong answer’ is known as ‘the toad in the road’. Every ‘trade’ has its toads, in some form or another. In […]
Below is a presentation on our thinking framework that I gave to http://www.scio.org.uk/
SCiO is a group for systems practitioners and is based in the UK, but has members internationally. It is focused primarily on systems practice and practiti…
It is great to see the recognition of all the hard work, determination and thought leadership from these organizations in a time where Enterprise Architecture is still rapidly evolving. Again a big congrats to: American Express Bayer Healthcare First Data…
Despite changes in leadership and business structure, the EA effort at semiconductor giant AMD is growing and thriving. The reason: It provides consistent business value.
In her presentation at the Troux Worldwide Conference, AMD IT Relationship Manag…
Despite changes in leadership and business structure, the EA effort at semiconductor giant AMD is growing and thriving. The reason: It provides consistent business value.
In her presentation at the Troux Worldwide Conference, AMD IT Relationship Manag…
#entarch Enterprise architects need to understand values and policies. VPEC-T is an approach that is particularly useful for situations where there are multiple conflicting values and policies, or multiple interpretations of What-Is-Going-On.
In this …
Most courses in business architecture (or any other methodology for that matter) start by teaching a set of generic principles, followed by a standard set of tasks and techniques. The tasks and techniques are then illustrated by some simplistic or cont…
What Visual Designers Can Learn From Biggie Smalls | Blog | design mind
“I often think of Biggie’s process when we discuss the visual design process in the studio and within the company. What can we as designers learn from it? To me, there are a few strong themes we can embrace from it when facing difficulties in our daily work or when we assess our working methods, regardless of what discipline we work in or the context of our everyday projects.”
tags: design
Thoughtful Programmer: Visible Business
“You may be writing software to detect or determine that “Something has happened”, or you may be writing software to deal with the fact that “Something has happened”.
Either way, visibility is the key… your software is either making “something that has happened” visible, or your software is making “something that needs to happen” visible. Your software may be making “something” visible to people, or your software may be making “something” visible to another system.”
tags: visibility events programming
Charles Eames on Design: Rare Q&A from 1972 | Brain Pickings
Q: “What are the boundaries of design?” Eames: “What are the boundaries of problems?”
tags: design
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I’m afraid I disagree with my friend @markhillary and countless others who have described Steve Jobs as a visionary. See for example Mark’s piece Steve Jobs Succeeded Against all the Odds (Huffington Post, 6 October 2011).
If you want a visionary from…