It's time to do something good. Every year, in the week before Christmas, the Dutch radio station 3FM sets up a 'glass house' somewhere in The Netherlands, three dj's are locked up in it for a week without food and…
Category: Enterprise Architecture
US Visit January 2016
I'll be visiting the US (North Carolina, New York) from January 25 until January 28. That creates an opportunity to give an Enterprise Architecture talk or class in the days just before or after. If people are interested to set…
Cyber Monday 2015 Deal
As I was too late to set up a really good Black Friday deal, I've decided to create a Cyber Monday deal (the books are about the world as it has changed thanks to 'cyber' after all). Using the Coupon Code…
Black Friday 2015 Deal
My apologies for being late, but I decided to add a Black Friday Deal for this year. Using the Coupon Code BFD2015, you will get a 15% discount on all electronic products of R&A. These include: Mastering ArchiMate Edition II PDF…
Chess and the Art of Enterprise Architecture and Mastering ArchiMate Edition II (both PDF) now available as bundle
Chess and the Art of Enterprise Architecture and Mastering ArchiMate Edition II (both PDF) are now available as a bundle purchase with a discount of €5 for the two together. Please visit either the Chess and the Art of Enterprise…
Architecture Principles considered harmful
In the book, I've written about several standard instruments of the orthodox enterprise architecture approach. One of these is the use of 'architecture principles'. I'm convinced, personally, that these often do more bad than good and this has to do…
Chess and the Art of Enterprise Architecture available as PDF
Chess and the Art of Enterprise is now also available as PDF for those who like to read it on a device instead of on paper. This version looks exactly like the paper version (which means: more elegant than the iBook).…
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Chess and the Art of Enterprise Architecture now available as iBook
Chess and the Art of Enterprise Architecture is also available as an iBook. The price depends on where you are, as iBooks prices are inclusive of tax. However, the book has been priced at roughly two thirds of the paperback…
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A worthwhile reality check
I came across the following post on LinkedIn Pulse: The 5 Resource Bottle Necks In Big Data, Including The Intangible 5th. I think this post is important for all the programmers, software designers and architects that are so infatuated with battling…
New EAPJ Column: Reverse Cloud
Just a short mention here: I've just published a new column on the site of the Enterprise Architecture Professional Journal titled Reverse Cloud. It deals with the latency effect in networks (which is thoroughly explained in an aside) and describes a…
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