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Architecture is theory

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Those who denigrate architecture as ‘only theory’ are seriously missing the point, because the role of architecture is theory – theory to guide the practice of design. Without theory to guide practice, all that we’d have is design that’s built on untested …

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Service, product, service – a question of structure?

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Do product and service have the same structure? If they’re different views into the same space, what of that shared-structure can we see in each case? The next post in this series on the relationship between product and service was going to be …

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EA in miniature – Part 3: Getting real

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At present, enterprise-architecture is most often used for mid- to larger-sized organisations. Yet what can we learn by applying the same methods at the smallest scale – a one-person organisation and their enterprise? For this series, I’m using my own…

What is a framework?

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The term “framework” is much abused. Here’s a statement picked at random from the Internet:”By bringing these key aspects together on a process-oriented strategy, organizations are able to acquire agility and improve the ability to engage on a much mor…

Toolsets for enterprise-architecture – another try

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What tools and toolsets do we need, to support our work in the architecture of the enterprise as a whole? The short and more cynical answer is “Not what we have right now”. To be blunt, maybe none of the…

Architects Don’t Know What They’re Doing!

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This is the second in a series of articles that makes the latest research into architecture available in useful bite size pieces. It’s official, Architects are trained all wrong and that goes a long way to explaining why so many programmes end up in trouble. Whether you take Zachman’s 1987 paper as the start of […]