It’s an existential quest I love my profession and the work I do as an architect, especially in enterprise architecture.…
Category: 01 Architecture Essays
01 Architecture Essays
Why Architecture Abhors Heroes
The craft, properly applied, prevents drama. Architecture puts compatible components together to deliver valuable functions. It aims to do this…
How Cloud Satellite and Edge Application Manager are a powerful combination for many companies
An elegant architecture to merge the Cloud and the Internet-of-Everything.
For many large and old enterprises, there is no getting away imminently from private data centres. They are adopting public…
Why IBM’s Splitting Up Makes Me Forlorn and Hopeful
The existential threat to my sense of belonging to something grand and good.
‘My granddad worked for IBM’ is what I’ve imagined my grandkids telling their friends. It has the cachet for me…
How to Become an Enterprise Architect in 4 Stages
An 8m podcast on the recommended route.
An 8m podcast on the recommended route. Do you want to become an Enterprise Architect? This episode is about how…
How To Strategise Faster for Enterprise IT and Delight Your Clients
An agile EA technique.
In the early 2010s, I used to take about three months to deliver an IT transformation roadmap for one business…
The 3 Most Powerful Architecture Decisions for Striking Results
Power your way to the crucial answers for your solution.
A Podcast with transcript and slides. Today I am going to talk to you about the three most powerful architecture…
How to draw epic IT architecture diagrams
Practical and consistent conventions from my experience
Architecture is a discipline. It is also a device that assists in thinking and communication. As the latter, architecture deals…
Let’s Adopt the Three Laws of Responsible Technology
We need to adopt them way before we get to Asimov’s robots.
We humans need to adopt them way before we get to Asimov’s robots. We are driving fast in the car…
6 Tactics in the Art of War for the Architect
How to be a Smart Samurai for your solution.
How to be a smart Samurai for your solution. You have to fight for your solution, dear architect. You may…