Richard Veryard once again takes on the conventional wisdom, arguing that enterprise architecture statements of principles are hugely overrated. They "are usually ill-conceived and generally fail to ...

Enterprise architecture works best today when it borrows start-up habits — testing fast, learning quickly and scaling what actually delivers value.

In a previous column, “How Enterprise Architecture Raises IT's Game”, I promised to delve deeper into my thesis that companies could use enterprise architecture to move from what Len Fehskens of The ...

Architecture principles are a very popular tool in the enterprise architect's tool box. The underlying concept of 'comply or explain', however, makes them particularly toxic. Architecture principles ...

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"City planning" is an easily understood metaphor that architects can employ to communicate more effectively the nature and value of architecture by relating the "unseen" enterprise architecture to ...

The IT industry loves seismic shifts in technology architectures. In the 1990s, there was object-oriented programming. Later, service-oriented architecture and enterprise service bus built on these ...

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In the world of real enterprises, enterprise architecture is a weak discipline. It doesn’t play a role of any real substance in most medium-large enterprises, which are exactly the enterprises that ...

Everyone knows that there’s a correct way to carve poultry into parts. In fact, basic carving methods haven’t changed much since the time of the Roman Empire a couple of thousand years ago. If you ...