Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
One of the more challenging aspects of reaching so-called ‘retirement age’ is how much it refocusses attention towards one’s legacy rather than the new. There’s so darned much in my back-catalogue that still needs finishing before I run out of…
Most architects are proud that they are STEM and therefore driven by logic, especially in terms of science and other hand this is an area that violates logic on a nearly daily basis. The main area is that since is often poor at the difference between causation and correlation. Examples are: When a country’s debt … Continue reading Being STEM does not mean you are good with logic →
A quick status-report to say where I’m getting to so far with the business of ‘not-retiring‘. What I did in the previous post was to list the probable options for what I could/should do next. Given that the amount of…
I try to be disciplined about my writing (picking themes, creating a backlog, collecting notes and links on those topics, etc.), but it seems like serendipity won’t be denied, no matter what I do. On the same day that XKCD published this cartoon, Erik Dietrich published “Software Architect as a Developer Pension Plan”. While I […]
By Stuart Macgregor, CEO, Real IRM and The Open Group South Africa Our transition to the highly-connected realm of Platform 3.0 will radically disrupt the way that we approach Enterprise Architecture (EA). The current architectures and methodologies will simply not … Continue reading →
A useful technique for service design and innovation is the Service Blueprint. It is related to customer journey maps (see our previous blog) in its emphasis of customer touchpoints, but focuses more on the realization of services by underlying activities and less on the quality of the customer’s experience. A service blueprint provides a layered depiction of a service, showing from top to bottom:
The Data Management Association (DAMA) International is a prominent association for data management professionals. They have accumulated and published a Data Management Body of Knowledge (DMBOK) and a Dictionary of Terms. For those struggling with establishing or improving their Information Management…
The Data Management Association (DAMA) International is a prominent association for data management professionals. They have accumulated and published a Data Management Body of Knowledge (DMBOK) and a Dictionary of Terms. For those struggling with es…
For all my good intentions, I was unable to restart my blog posts in the last year. My new role as the Senior Manager, Technology planning is not new anymore! The demand of my new job is significant and I worked very hard for this past year.
No visits…
As an architect you are often part of the company internal circus of budgeting with OPEX, CAPEX, ROI, TCO and similar. So this is why we are quickly being influenced by budgeting when we look a the most cost efficient way of an architecture. The problem with taking our lesson from the budgeting process is … Continue reading Understanding costs →
A big congratulations goes out to our customer South State Bank for being chosen as a winner in this year’s Forrester and InfoWorld Enterprise Architecture Awards 2016.
This one’s a follow-up on my previous post, from a month ago now, ‘On not retiring‘. What I said back there was that, yeah, fairly obviously, people like me (and you too, I presume) don’t ever really retire – we…