April 2022 – R&A IT Strategy & Architecture

Dev, Test, Production — “It’s Turtles All The Way Down”

Posted by gctwnlon April 27, 2022May 3, 2022in Brittle Logic, Management and Organisation, Using ArchiMate7 Comments

Most IT exists to support other IT, not your business directly. A part of this is that stack/web of platforms on which your applications depend. How does that for instance affect #informationsecurity in your designs?

Amateurs talk Strategy, Professionals talk Logistics — that is kind of true in IT as well

Posted by gctwnlon April 1, 2022May 6, 2022in Enterprise Architecture, For the Board 5, Management and Organisation2 Comments

It is an old adagium of warfare: Amateurs talk Strategy, Professionals talk Logistics. Maybe surprisingly, this is true in IT as well. Maybe it is true in any complex and unpredictable situation, which 'big IT' is more and more turning out to be. Logistics considers Strategy a small snack.