Foundations Packaging up delivery work for the annual plan is tricky. You don’t want huge programmes that spend a fortune and lose their way, but equally too many small projects will likely dupllicate work and create a communication nightmare. What you need is a mix of business-outcome driven initiatives supported by a small number of carefully scoped foundational projects. Here’s how.
The Analysis Business A look at business requirements from a functional and non-functional perspective, concluding that partitioning requirements up into arbitrary categories isn’t very helpful as it reinforces the subjective politics we need to get away from.
The Nature Of Functionality A look at the potential subjectivity of business requirements and how to spot it.
Dijkstras Shortest Path A visually interactive exploration of Dijkstra’s Shortest Path Algorithm.
Measuring Architecture A short walk around the discipline of enterprise architecture. What it is, why it’s good, and how you know if it’s working.
The Trouble with Transformations IT and Business transformations and change programs are very fashionable. But most often, you don’t need one. You just need to sort your problems out via better leadership.
Reality Street aint got no Vision The second of a two-part piece on reality and vision. This article puts the case that it’s all very well thinking about the right now, but without a vision it means nothing.
The Governance Apparition Financial governance? Project governance? Architecture governance? Service governance? All just distractions that prevent us from seeing that we just need a reasonable process.
The Death of Architecture The first of a two-parter that looks at enterprise architecture and reality. One thing to get straight, to make architecture effective, is to realise that it is, in and of itself, a mirage. It’s just an idea with no value until it’s made real.
A Loose Coupling Strategy Sometimes (or maybe all the time) you’ve got to make architecture count quickly. There’s no time, or buy-in, to any longer term visionary fluff. In these cases refactoring is your friend.