I wrote a post on Chess and the Art of Enterprise Architecture about ways to look at self-service from an architectural perspective: "I, Robot" – there is no such thing as 'Customer Self-Service'. In it, I argue that saying that…
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“I, Robot” – there is no such thing as ‘Customer Self-Service’
Recently, Samuel Holcman published the short Outside-In vs. Inside-Out in Enterprise Architecture document and announced it on LinkedIn. The issue he raises is that the clients of organisations more and more seem to become the ones that perform the organisation's processes (e.g. self-service),…
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Free excerpt of Chess and the Art of Enterprise Architecture available
I've made a free excerpt of Chess and the Art of Enterprise Architecture available. It contains the Prologue Loosely Coupled Spaghetti, and the Table of Contents. Please go the the home page of the book.
The Book is available
Just a short note today that the book Chess and the Art of Enterprise Architecture is available as a paperback and will over the coming weeks appear on Amazon and other online traders of physical books such as Barnes &…
Database Triggers in #ArchiMate — And a Wish
Recently, in a discussion in the ArchiMate LinkedIn Group, Tarun Godhwani started a discussion on modelling the triggers and tables of a database. Of course, one can wonder if it is useful to model these, but in case they are, the…
Je suis Charlie
I have been in doubt about doing this, not because of self-censorship, but because the subject of my blog is far, far removed from the battlegrounds of free speech, and this post is definitely off-topic for this blog. My apologies.…
New PDF Pricing for Mastering #ArchiMate per 1/1/2015
The EU has instigated new sales tax rules which force people selling in the EU to charge the sales tax of the country where the buyer is located. This is a rule designed to fight tax evasion by large companies.…
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Christmas 2014 Archi & Mastering #ArchiMate special
This Christmas, there is a special deal for Mastering ArchiMate. From today until New Years Day, you can buy Mastering ArchiMate Edition II with a discount and at the same time support the development of the free open source Archi modelling tool…
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New: The (Mastering) #ArchiMate FAQ
A short notice today: I've started a (Mastering) ArchiMate Frequently Asked Questions page on this site. Via the menu or the link just given.
Low-hanging Cloud
(Sorry, long story. It will return in an appendix in Chess and the Art of Enterprise Architecture. It's not related to that book's main message, it is just an 'illustration' used in the book, which I thought would be nice for…
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