Architecture Essays Image made by the author in SketchWow All business domains and sub-domains have the following functional IT architecture systems in common. Use this for your Architectural Thinking while creating or improving IT solutions. This paradigm gives you the model artefacts for your Architecture Decisions.… Read the rest
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Architecture Techniques Image by the author from Canva Pro A common problem we do not deal with the attention it deserves is the proper specification, design and estimation of IT services and systems availability. The result is the shockingly high number of outages of web portals, mobile applications, and many business support systems not exposed…
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Enterprise Architecture Techniques Image by the author from Canva Pro I was involved in a company acquisition as an integration architect and a merger of two large telecoms as an enterprise architect. They were among the most exciting and challenging IT architecture engagements of my career.… Read the rest
How to Merge the IT Systems of Two Companies Efficiently in an M&A Situation: A Primer Read More »
Architecture Essays Image by the author from Canva Pro I was asked recently by the head of a startup that’s providing security analytics to a large company how it could assess where there were gaps. It seemed lost in the various domains, actors, data repositories, applications, and infrastructure.… Read the rest
How to Assess the Security Maturity of an Enterprise (an EA’s PoV) Read More »
It’s an existential quest Photo courtesy Evan Karageorgos from Unsplash I love my profession and the work I do as an architect, especially in enterprise architecture. I also happen to be deeply interested in philosophy, to the extent I’ve developed one and written a book on it.… Read the rest
Why Architectural Thinking is like Philosophy Read More »
The craft, properly applied, prevents drama. Robert McCall – Vision of Utopia Architecture puts compatible components together to deliver valuable functions. It aims to do this with the highest possible quality, at the lowest possible long-term cost. An expert architect will avoid predictable issues and predict unavoidable ones from experience.… Read the rest
Why Architecture Abhors Heroes Read More »
Free image from pexels.com 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 cloud, yet they need to run core workloads that cannot be easily migrated to a public cloud.… Read the rest
An 8m podcast on the recommended route, with the transcript. Image made by the author https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/7wbq6q/HowToBecomeAnEnterpriseArchitect.mp3 Podcast Transcript Do you want to become an Enterprise Architect? This episode is about how you can, wherever you may be in your Information Technology career today.… Read the rest
How to Become an Enterprise Architect in 4 Stages Read More »
An EA technique. There are three reasons an organisation adopts Enterprise Architecture or makes the best use of it for transformations: Expansion — When an organisation needs to scale up significantly, Enterprise Architecture ensures it will happen smoothly, quickly, and cost-effectively. Diversification — A company may diversify its products or services organically or by acquiring or merging…
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Power your way to the crucial answers for your solution. Free image courtesy pexels.com [I am experimenting with what I call an ‘enhanced’ Podcast. The audio is accompanied by visuals and the complete transcript (below). So the reader can listen, watch, or read as convenient.]… Read the rest
The 3 Most Powerful Architecture Decisions for Striking Results Read More »
