About the PEAF book

I’ve just finished editing yet another book on enterprise-architecture, and set up its production via my Tetradian Books publishing setup. But you won’t see it on the site, and in fact it may never be published as such in its present form – though you will see it coming out quite soon under someone else’s […]

The Agile CIO as a Business – IT Marriage Counselor

Print PDF Guest post by Tim Mattix and Mike Mariani If the relationship between developers and business users is like a marriage, sometimes the CIO’s job is akin to a marriage counselor. In a marriage, one spouse often wants the other to change. In the market, business executives want change, too; changes in the way systems operate so they can capitalize on new opportunities. And often the complaints in both situations are the same. It’s […]

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Time is Money

I can remember the day when all of our televisions had antenna and our telephones had cords. Today, of course, this has switched. I don’t mean to date myself (I did enough of that in High School – hardeee har har). I’m just saying that we u…

Top Cloud Stories for March Podcast

This morning, I joined Dave Linthicum and Bill Russell to exchange our top 3 cloud stories.  Well, perhaps “exchange” is the wrong word, since Dave rejected one of my stories.  Oops.  Check out our lively podcast.

 

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There is no right to not-care

For all the talk of supposed ‘rights’ to this-that-and-the-other, there is one ‘right’ that we do not, can not and must not have: the right to not care.
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If day one of the Troux Worldwide Conference was about the need to drive short-term value from EA, day two was about how to get those fast results. The lessons came from Troux customers who have delivered millions of dollars worth in savings by buildi…

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