Image made by the author One of the holy grails for an Enterprise Architect is a document (including or accompanied by diagrams and spreadsheets) that captures everything in the Information Technology domain of the organisation. This core EA artefact is the current Enterprise Architecture & Technology Document, abbreviated to EATD.… Read the rest
An architecture essay Image by the author Your enterprise has an architecture, but without a good Enterprise Architecture Practice, it’s unlikely you are doing as well as you can. We can also call it the organisation’s Enterprise Architecture (EA) capability, competency, framework, or engine.… Read the rest
Expert Architecture Techniques Free image from Freepiks courtesy MacroVector No humanmade system is immune to failure. However robust we make a service, it will go down sometime. What we architects need to do is deliberately design services to recover quickly. Here’s how, from my experience in architecting and improving resilience in IT systems.… Read the rest
Architecture essays Image made by the author Organisations that promote standards, new ideas and community are vital to the health and growth of any profession. This article is a brief introduction to five organisations that, in my experience, consistently and ably boost IT Architecture skills and practice by supporting: Standardisation Reference architectures Technical documentation Working groups…
Architecture essays Image made by the author The perspective IT systems interact and therefore integrate for the same reasons as people. When we need some information from others for our work When we need someone to do something for us When we want to socialise with someone The corresponding IT examples are an API call…
Architecture Essays Image made by the author Introduction This article is for IT architects open to a powerful method that delivers better solutions for their clients. It is achieved by infusing essential features of Domain Driven (software) Design (DDD) into the sphere of IT Architecture Design.… Read the rest
Architecture Essays Picture made by the author Why do we need information technology? Let’s begin at the beginning and check why we need IT and this article at all. Humans do many things for survival, growth and reproduction. Hunting, gathering, farming, mining, converting raw materials into goods, transporting goods for use and exchange, creating and…
