Another week’s collection of Tweets and links, for general amusement, interest or suchlike. Usual categories, and various comments added as usual in italics and preceded by a ‘<’ marker <like this. More after the ‘Read more…’ link, anyway.
Reading James Taylor’s recent piece “Business rules are king“, pretty much every one of my enterprise-architecture alarm-bells went off. Yes, it’s a good article – recommended reading. And I would strongly agree with its implication that there’s a real and …
Almost springtime in cold, grey, damp, dreary England. Another season, another week, which means it’s time for another collection of Tweets and links. More after the ‘Read more…’ link.
Another follow-on to the theme about the economy as enterprise-architecture and the role of money within an economy. This one picks up from another direction, namely knowledge-management – specifically, a post on KMWorld by Phil Murray, ‘Everything is connected… really… …
Money as the ‘information-shavings’ of the economy Read more »
Another week, another month, and it’s back to the usual collection of Tweets and links. Usual layout, after the usual ‘Read more…’ link.
(This series of posts explores a concept of ‘context-space’ which in part draws on a categorisation immortalised in a certain well-known diagram. It must be emphasised that this is not about ‘That Welsh Framework‘ (aka twf) which that diagram illustrates: for details on twf, …
This one starts with a note from Belgian enterprise-architect Kris Meukens: I couldn’t agree more with your post last month on “Architecture is non-functional“, and appreciated it very much. However, the case is most often made for “system” architecture. With the …
Non-functional elements in enterprise-architecture Read more »
Several people have asked me for more information about the book I’m writing at present, ‘The Business Anarchist‘, so here’s a quick summary of the themes and structure. Who or what is a ‘business-anarchist‘? Anyone who works with inherent uncertainty …
(This series of posts explores a concept of ‘problem-space’ versus ‘solution-space’ which in part demonstrates alternative uses and interpretations of the Simple / Complicated / Complex / Chaotic categorisation originally described in the Cynefin diagram. It must be emphasised that …
Context-space mapping and enterprise-architecture Read more »
Not actually ‘cryptic’ in the usual sense – just that the cafe in the Crypt below the church-cum-concert-hall of St Martins-in-the-Fields is a useful and pleasant place for meetings in the middle of London. (It’s just off Trafalgar Square, and …