What is architecture? What do we do in architecture? And how do we do it? Turns out that it’s essentially the same for every kind of architecture: enterprise-architecture, solutions-architecture, software-architecture, building-architecture, naval-architecture, brand-architecture, whatever. Right down at the root, in principle, architecture is incredibly simple. It all…
Tom Graves / Tetradian
Random ramblings over the metaphoric edge
Tag: architecture
Architecture is simple
Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge Tagged with: architecture, complexity, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge, simple
Architecture, structure and story
What does architecture actually do? What makes it different from anything else that people do? (There’s no particular start-point to this one: it’s probably a mixture of several of those interminable LinkedIn conversations, but likely a bunch of other stuff as…
Posted in Enterprise architecture Tagged with: architecture, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, NOTES, story
Two points of view on (enterprise) architecture
Was showing a colleague one of my favourite small books yesterday: Matthew Frederick’s 101 Things I Learned In Architecture School. Briefly flicking through the two-page spreads, one caught my eye. Seems so apposite to enterprise-architecture and the like that it’s…
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture Tagged with: architecture, Business, business architecture, complexity, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, narrative knowledge, story, worldview
Architecting the enterprise backbone
Software-architect extraordinaire Simon Brown kindly pointed me to the InfoQ article ‘Agile and Architecture Conflict‘, which summarised the views of various folks on the ‘agile vs architecture’ debate, including myself, Simon and another of my regular co-creators (co-conspirators? 🙂 ),…
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Knowledge Tagged with: agile, architecture, Business, business architecture, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, governance, IT governance, IT-architecture, Knowledge, whole-of-enterprise
Notes on architecture versus design
Several people, including Nigel Green, Doug Newdick and Kris Meukens, picked up on my comments about architecture versus design in my earlier post ‘Great conversations on enterprise-architecture‘. Nigel kindly wrote a follow-up post on his Posterous blog, and Kris pointed to an…
Posted in Enterprise architecture Tagged with: architecture, design, design thinking, Enterprise architecture, enterprise canvas, hybrid thinking, metamodel, methodology, paradigm
'Ba', Cynefin, place and architecture
Just been reading (via Tweet by Bill Ives) a post by Anne Marie McEwan on ‘Loosening the Taylorist Stranglehold on the Workplace‘. Within a much larger context in a very good article, this one brief section caught my attention: The…
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