Architecture Essays Introduction This article is for IT architects open to a powerful method that delivers better solutions for their…
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Domain-Driven Architecture Design for Excellent IT Systems-I-Introduction
Architecture Essays Why do we need information technology? Let’s begin at the beginning and check why we need IT and…
How To Do EA Fit Gap Analysis To Fix Problematic IT Systems
Architecture Essays This story elaborates on one of the critical steps of the Agile EA method I laid out in…
A Practical Abstraction of Functional IT Systems
Architecture Essays All business domains and sub-domains have the following functional IT architecture systems in common. Use this for your Architectural Thinking…
How to Calculate and Design IT Service Availability
Architecture Techniques A common problem we do not deal with the attention it deserves is the proper specification, design and…
How to Assess the Security Maturity of an Enterprise (an EA’s PoV)
Architecture Essays I was asked recently by the head of a startup that’s providing security analytics to a large company…
Why Architectural Thinking is like Philosophy
It’s an existential quest I love my profession and the work I do as an architect, especially in enterprise architecture.…
Why Architecture Abhors Heroes
The craft, properly applied, prevents drama. Architecture puts compatible components together to deliver valuable functions. It aims to do this…
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 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…