Do not confuse data governance with data management

Last week I participated in a roundtable during a conference in Paris organized by the French branch of DAMA – the data management international organization. During the question/answer part of the conference, it became clear most of the audience was …

Do Not Confuse Data Governance With Data Management

Last week, I participated in a roundtable during a conference in Paris organized by the French branch of DAMA, the data management international organization. During the question/answer part of the conference, it became clear that most of the audience …

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