A new NASCIO report says that the discipline of enterprise architecture is essential for state technology leaders seeking to manage complexity.| StateScoop
[Sticky] Link to the YouTube video of the 'fundamentals' part of my 2024 talks on insights into the digital revolution. About how the IT revolution provides reliable performance, but the price paid is less agility (IT is brittle and thus ever more It becomes ever more difficult to change). About how we humans react/have reacted to this and why 'Complexity Crunch' and not a 'Singularity Point' is coming. Also contains links to related posts on the site for those that rather read than watch..| R&A IT Strategy & Architecture
Mastering ArchiMate 3.2 has been released. Finally. This post contains release information, and a link to the book's page where you can order the free excerpt (with the entire language description as well as a short BPMN primer) or the entire book (both PDF).| R&A IT Strategy & Architecture
You’re on the Titanic. The engineers are shouting: “The bulkheads are too low! The rudder is too small! There aren’t enough life boats!”. The sailors mumble: “It has been cold, there will be many more icebergs than usual and further south”. The owners are pressing the captain: “You should be in New York in six days, we desperately need a record!”. And the captain thinks: “I have execution power. I can break through. I will be successful.” and orders: “Northerly course an...| R&A IT Strategy & Architecture
Fundamental properties of digital IT have set ons on a road not to a Singularity Point, but towards Complexity Crunch. That has consequences for our strategic (IT) choices and landscapes. A ‘long r…| R&A IT Strategy & Architecture
What happens when your organisation suddenly loses all of its IT? There are enough realistic ways for that to happen. Think: a really successful ransomware attack. As it turns out, first turning ou…| R&A IT Strategy & Architecture
It is important to understand the ways in which software may be conjured into the world for the simple reason that software and information technologies more generally have immense social and economic impact. The genesis of such process has been called software architecture, and there have been various attempts over the years to define the […] The post The past, present, and possible future of software architecture appeared first on Philip Sheldrake.| Philip Sheldrake
The third ‘fragmentation wave’ of the IT-revolution is upon us, it seems. Fragmentation/encapsulation is a repeated pattern in the IT-revolution for managing complexity. First as object…| R&A IT Strategy & Architecture