Form Follows Function on SPaMCast 381

This week’s episode of Tom Cagley’s Software Process and Measurement (SPaMCast) podcast, number 381, features Tom’s essay on Agile adoption, Kim Pries talking about technology’s gender gap, and a Form Follows Function installment on the fallacy of greenfield development. Tom and I discuss my post “The Seductive Myth of Greenfield Development”. We talk about how […]

The game of enterprise-architecture

Given the parlous state of most current enterprise-architecture ‘education’, is there any way we could do it better? One option might be to reframe EA-education as a game. I don’t mean ‘gamification’ as per the asinine ‘boy-scout badges for enterprise-architects’

The problem with most global Business & Application Architecture

I am not sure if you have worked on any global projects. I have worked on a lot and they usually show a key aspect where business, as well as application architecture is going wrong. Usually on a global project Business Architects will work on one country at time. When challenged to think more outside … Continue reading The problem with most global Business & Application Architecture

How MDD brings business relevance to the PaaS space

It seems that we have past the top of the hype around Platform-as-a-Service. A good moment to assess how serious the adoption of PaaS is in the enterprise. The different PaaS flavours It’s a while ago that I tried to structure and categorize the different cloud approaches to clarify the different types of “cloud” that we see in todays market.  I distinguished among 3 layers of Platform-as-a-Service (and some more layers that.

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Twitter, Timelines, and the Open/Closed Principle

Consider this Tweet for a moment. I’ll be coming back to it at the end. In my last post, I brought up Twitter’s rumored changes to the timeline feature as a poor example of customer awareness in connection with an attempt to innovate. The initial rumor set off a storm of protest that brought out […]

HDN – Inference Engine driven Cognitive Computing

Prescriptive / Descriptive / Predictive Deductive / Inductive “Arguments based on Deductive / Inductive based on the Inferential “ Notational Computing / Semantic Algebra / Quantum Statistics Non – Predicated Intelligence Driven Data Science Platform

Innovation on Tap

Two articles from the same site (CIO.com), both dealing with planned innovations, but with dramatically different results: “Report: Twitter’s algorithmic timeline may arrive next week” reports that rumors (or “rumors”) of Twitter switching from a chronological timeline to one curated algorithmically has led to an uprising under the hashtag #RIPTwitter. Twitter’s CEO, Jack Dorsey, has […]