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
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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
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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
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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
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Practical and consistent conventions from my experience Free image from Wikimedia Commons Architecture is a discipline. It is also a device that assists in thinking and communication. As the latter, architecture deals with the static and dynamic structure of an overall system through models constructed of defined components, their external features and relationships.… Read the rest
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How to be a smart Samurai for your solution. Free image from Pexels You have to fight for your solution, dear architect. You may have worked out the best end state by applying a good method along with your training and experience.… Read the rest
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It’s under every need and behind every want Image from Wikimedia commons Good architecture sells — things, services and experiences. Selling to the world An enterprise is a box from which flows the fount of valuables it creates for its customers. Businesses spew out every object produced in the world: phones, planes, pyjamas, pizzas, pumps, penicillin, paper… They…
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A guide must go there before There are lots of books with complicated recipes to influence, convince, win or be a leader. But it all boils down to this — true friendship and preparation. I’ve seen this work so many times, so unfailingly, that I have thrown away all the recipes, methods and techniques I learnt over…
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