Architecture, Data and Intelligence

@ruthmalan challenges @swardley on #Agile Asked what is agile? It's a method of reducing the cost of change when developing an uncert...

Heard an interesting story recently, from a software developer advocating Scrum. I shall omit the names of the companies and individuals, an...

#entarch #emergence #systemsthinking What is emergent architecture, and what are the practical implications for enterprise architecture? ...

#ukgovit @ instituteforgov has just published a report called System Error: Fixing the Flaws in Government IT . The report recommends a ...

@ mattdeacon @ wendydevolder @ karianna @ flowchainsensei @ gojkoadzic @ unclebobmartin . Lots of good comments on Twitter and elsewh...

In a post called Kitchen Sink Variability , Harry "Devhawk" Pierson (Microsoft) lays into a research note by Ronald Smeltzer (Zapt...

Day 2 of the SPARK workshop was an attempt to develop frameworks that encapsulated the architectural response to the challenges identified i...

Twin-track development involves a management separation between the development of components and services, and the development of larger ar...

There are several strands of agile development and quality management that are concerned with reducing (some measure of) variation in order ...

One of the key problems faced by planning (in IT and elsewhere) has been the dilemma – top-down or bottom-up. Top-down methods produce gran...