Done is the Engine Of More

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The Cult of Done Manifesto

There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion.
Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.
There is no editing stage.
Pretending you know what you’re doing is almost the s…

Link Collection (weekly)

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Three word definition of Enterprise Architecture: Reduce Unnecessary Effort – Inside Architecture – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
More wisdom from Nick Malik: “I explained that I am an Enterprise Architect, he asked what that is. I got my chance to use my ne…

Design Goals

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It is always a good idea to express our stated design goals right up front – and use these to guide the inevitable trade-offs and decisions that will need to be made along this journey. So let’s get started with a few design goals in our space based architecture model that combines and integrates distributed caching, content-based distributed messaging, and parallel processing into a powerful architecture within a grid computing framework.

When effort estimations feel like buying showroom kitchens

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Purchasing a showroom kitchen can be an unpleasant experience, especially if you’re not sure of the value of what you are buying. Kitchen showrooms tend to have the atmosphere of a prestigious car dealership, perhaps because the price tag of a well-designed kitchen is similar to a mid-sized car. If you happen to linger at […]

Enterprise Architecture is Misplaced and Other News from MIT Research

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Several interesting points that deserve their own blog posts, so this is just a conversation starter:- EA should not be inside of IT, and it’s usual placement hampers both IT and its effectiveness. – EA maturity is directly related to organizational pe…