We Must Make Enterprise Architecture Lean
The advent of lean processes from Toyota in the last century have had a long ranging impact. From just-in-time inventory…
Agility and Architecture
One of the challenges that many organizations face with adopting agile practices is the problem of “where does architecture fit?”…
Enterprise Architecture and Threat Modeling
What should an Enterprise Architect know about threat modeling? I recently asked on a LinkedIn group about threat modeling and…
Placing Architecture Properly into Scrum Processes
As I’m about to complete my share of a longer engagement on using Lean principles to improve the processes at…
Unraveling the Developer Bias in Agile Development Practices
There is a contradiction that shows up in many books and articles on agile software development. . And I’m going…
AGILE architecture vs. agile ARCHITECTURE
As an architect involved in an agile implementation (my current gig), you can imagine how interested I was to see…
All Effective Enterprise Architects Are Agile
I explained to one of my clients recently that there is a perception of animosity between the Enterprise Architecture community…
On the road to a Business Architecture Manifesto
One very powerful metaphor that has reverberated throughout the technical community, in the past few years, was the Agile Manifesto. …
A Modern Update to The Blind Men and The Elephant
My humble apologies to John Godfrey Saxe, whose poem I have modified to add a seventh man, and to make…
Building less than you know you’ll need
In the past, I’ve been guilty of this sin: gold-plating. Back when I was a solution architect, I would (often)…