Myths of Microsoft Culture
From time to time, I hear interesting anecdotes from colleagues or friends outside Microsoft, telling me a story about what…
The ivory tower is a distant memory
Just reading through a LinkedIn thread on “the biggest problem facing Enterprise Architecture,” and I noticed one response that struck…
Perhaps the most valuable conversation you can have… starts with a question
A co-worker and I spent an hour doing something innovative… and no, it was not part of a “Google 20%…
The responsibility of architecture is to create an architecture of responsibility
I cannot take credit for that aphorism… credit goes to Jan Van Til. He coined the term after reading Tom…
It’s not about cost savings… it’s about value
The word ‘value’ has too many meanings and sometimes it masks a real problem. I had a conversation with a…