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Episode 6 of this season of Architecture Corner is out (I made a guest appearance in episode 1, “Good at Innovation”). In this installment, the CIO is a glutton for new data center capacity. Chris the CEO (Casimir Artmann) and John the CIO (Greger Wikstrand) are convinced that “we are special”. Can Ann the CFO […]
Almost all architects have some good stories to tell about managers that aim to be strong, just to behave like total idiots. My proposal is that you need to aim for meekness to be a true strong leader. If we exercise meekness in areas where we encounter a general mean spirited negative environment we will … Continue reading Aim too be meek, not strong →
Presentation given to the “GDPR Making it Real” workshop organized by DAMA UK and BCS DMSG, 12 June 2017.The presentation refers to two milestones. The second milestone is 25th May 2018, the date that companies will need to comply fully with the new da…
User error has many synonyms such as layer 8 error or error 18 indicating that the problem is 18 inches away from the computer. I personally still prefer PICNIC (Problem In Chair, Not In Computer), as it is the easiest to remember. For me user error is a fact of life and as architects we … Continue reading PICNIC →
I’ll admit it: there’s an awful lot of stuff on this website of mine. And there are so many tools and suchlike here that it can be difficult to find one’s way around, or to work out which tools to…
I’ve given up on enterprise-architecture. Why? Several reasons, really. The main one is that, even now, enterprise-architecture still isn’t enterprise architecture – and there are still massive vested-interests against its ever being so. Its literal meaning should be ‘the architecture of the enterprise‘;…
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I’ve spent the past week in Ireland, first in Dublin at the IASA Ireland 2017 conference (co-hosted by ICS, the Irish Computer Society), and also at a follow-on event organised by Gar Mac Críosta. Paddy Baxter‘s theme for the conference…
Welcome to the second in a series of blog posts on The Present and Future of the ArchiMate® Language. With the release of the ArchiMate 3.0 Specification last year, we now have a complete enterprise description language that has been adopted by architects worldwide in a wide range of organizations. It is now time for The Open Group ArchiMate Forum to reach out to users and better understand how the language is being used and how it should evolve. Therefore, the following post, like all others in this series, reflects the views of its authors, and will benefit from comments and discussion. You may refine, expand upon, or even disagree with elements of the post. Regardless, you will be shaping the future of the ArchiMate language.
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ContextHeadline: User Requirements & Models Don’t Tell the Full StoryKicker: Important dimensions of the problem domain, left undocumented can lead to expensive mistakes and undelivered business outcomes.Exploring user/stakeholder stories thr…