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A decadesworth of consumer technology.

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1991 i did not keep a television for the twelve years i spent living alone, preferring books and music to the ghastly and limited broadcast offerings of the 1990s. 2003 When we first started living together, my wife-to-be produced her elderly SONY Trinitron television, a cubic-metre of black plastic shrouding a buzzy, hot, squealing cathode-ray […]

OODA vs PDCA – What’s the Difference?

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In my post “Architecture and OODA Loops – Fast is not Enough”, I stated that sense-making and decision-making were critical skills for the practice of software architecture. I further stated that I found the theories of John Boyd, particularly his OODA loop, useful in understanding and describing effective sense-making and decision-making. My conclusion was that […]

Form Follows Function on SPaMCast 377

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This week’s episode of Tom Cagley’s Software Process and Measurement (SPaMCast) podcast, number 377, features Tom’s essay on empathy, Kim Pries talking about the application of David Allen’s concepts for Getting Things Done, and the first Form Follows Function installment for 2016 on organizations and innovation. Tom and I discuss my post “Changing Organizations Without […]

Reactance

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Do still like things you were forbidden as a child, even if they are junk? Most of us do and this behaviour is called reactance. It is also used in marketing to create a situation where you not be able to by a certain product any longer and as such forcing a purchasing decision. Reactance … Continue reading Reactance →

Bioingine :- Multivariate Cognitive Computing Platform – Distributed Concurrent Computing by Dockerized Microservices

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Employ of Dockerized Apps Opens a Vistas of Possibilities with Hadoop Architecture. Where, the Hadoop’s traditional data management architecture is extended beyond data processing and management into Distributed Concurrent Computing.   Data Management (Storage, Security,  MapReduce based Pre-processing) and Data Science (Algorithms) Decoupled. Microservices driven Concurrent Computing :- Complex Distributed Architecture made Affordable Conceptual View […]

Open Group San Francisco 2016

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We are happy to announce that after a brief hiatus, we will be presenting again at the Open Group Conference, this year in San Francisco, January 25-27. Ben Sommer and I will be presenting in the Architecture Methods and Techniques track.  The theme of this conference is “How Enterprise Architecture is empowering companies to build […]

IT – it’s about (much) more than just ‘digital-stuff’

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Information-technology – what is it? There are so many arguments on this that it’s probably simplest to sidestep the question, and say that information-technology is the technology of information. Kinda straightforward, when we look at it like that. But in which…

Architecture and OODA Loops – Fast is not Enough

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Sense-making and decision-making are critical skills for the practice of software architecture. Creating effective solutions (i.e. the collection of design decisions that make up the product) is dependent on understanding the architecture of the problem. In other words, the quality of our decisions depends on the quality of our understanding of the context those decisions […]

Big Data Analytics – Unlock Breakthrough Results: (Step 5)

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In this step we develop one of the most important interim products for our decision model; the analytic user profile. A profile is a way of classifying and grouping what the user community is actually doing with the analytic information and services produced. We develop a quantified view of our user community so we can evaluate each platform or tool for optimization quickly and produce meaningful results aligned with usage patterns.