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…
Everything you’ve read about IT Project Failure is wrong
I did a scan around the web to figure out what many of the leading thinkers were saying about IT…
Positioning an Enterprise Architect for Success
As I found in our Enterprise Architecture team in Microsoft, each time an Enterprise Architect is assigned to a specific…
Inserting Architectural Governance into the IT Program Funding Cycle
People do what you pay them to do. That much is clear. In most businesses, if you pay (reward, incentive)…
It has value… but do you need it?
Recently, Chris Potts threw this nugget out on Twitter: chrisdpotts Instead of ‘demand-managing’ to fit an arbitrary IT budget, challenge…
How the Program Management Office Views Enterprise Architecture…
There’s an interesting analysis available through the PMO Executive Board on “Project Interdependencies.” In the problem statement, the author correctly…
Modeling User Experience Scenarios
I’m working on modeling some requirements for a document management system. I’m a big fan of using models to represent…
Should some requirements be called out as “architectural” requirements?
Some methodologies of software architecture, including EWITA, attempt to describe architectural processes in a manner that is quite separate from…
Make IT appear as simple as possible, but not simpler
Sometimes I hear a complaint from an IT architect who wants to have direct conversations with “the business” or “the…
Why Agile Development Requires Agile Architecture
The dark cloud of the economic downturn has produced a silver lining within Microsoft IT: an increased emphasis on Agile…