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IT Made Simple
Posted on May 3, 2011 | No CommentsWhat would it take for your business to view IT as a valuable, essential partner instead of an annoying cost-center that they're forced to deal with? Wouldn't that be better for you and better for them? -
Nogility
Posted on April 12, 2011 | No CommentsLarge technology organizations don't simply become agile. They're either agile or not. If they're not, the path to being so is via change, often radical change at that. -
Architecture is Not: Infrastructure
Posted on February 28, 2011 | No CommentsA comprehensive architecture that is made up of things like mission, vision, goals, objectives, requirements, roles, activities, capabilities, services, technical components and yes, physical components is a holistic thing. It is something we bake, not something served up in piecemeal ingredients. We don't eat flour and call it bread just because everyone around us happens to be an expert in flour. -
Bad Marksmanship
Posted on October 5, 2010 | No CommentsSuggesting architecture in general, or enterprise architecture in particular, doesn't add value or is otherwise a fiscal black hole is akin to declaring that badly executed means discredits the ends. The objective of enhancing Business-IT alignment is a worthy one. Just because a bunch of charlatans over time have discredited one method of achieving that alignment doesn't mean we shouldn't bother. -
How We Give Fire
Posted on September 27, 2010 | No CommentsThe social experience, whether it is Facebook or Twitter or Foursquare or Flickr or the latest release of, it is all about connecting with one another in meaningful ways. A mega, super, hyperactive version of painting details of the mastodon hunt on the walls of a fire lit cave. How do we, as IT practitioners, connect with our peers throughout the enterprise and communicate knowledge that has intrinsic (or divine) value?
