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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…
Who you gonna call? Trustbusters!
Suppose you are in a meeting. You, the Enterprise Architect of the EA Chess kind. You are aware of many complexities, uncertainties, hair-ball like integrations and other 'technical debt' in your landscape, and you don't have the habit of underestimating…
The Great Escape: “EA is not about IT!”
As soon as you, as an enterprise architect, want to address the problem of the complex Business-IT landscape, and you actually acknowledge in a discussion that Enterprise Architecture has come into existence because of the complexity of modern IT-laden landscapes,…
D4 – being in control of your deployed reality
Large, complex landscapes are a pain. With hundreds of servers, hundreds of applications, thousands of users (and thus usage patterns) and a constant flux of small and large changes, few organisations are really in full control of what they actually…
Losing a Limpet – What happens when we don’t have Enterprise Architecture?
Recently, I had a conversation with someone about how to do enterprise architecture. I prepared that conversation by trying to condense my basic argument for the`enterprise chess' approach to the absolute minimum. I started out with the question: "Suppose we don't…
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