This checklist should be used when creating an Architecture Blueprint document, or blueprint style documentation. Each major bullet represents a section. Sub-bullets may represent further drilled down sections.
The Chief Architect’s Biggest Three Strategy Secrets
Way too long since the last post – my bad. Too much book! Sounds like a pretty sales-y headline, doesn’t it? Well – I’ve got you reading and that was my intention. It’s attention that you need to pay to your enterprise, your business or your organization. Times are tough out there, and companies need you more than ever to demonstrate value, but also to roll up your sleeves and…
Your IT Architect Career
It’s been far too long but I’m writing again – you see I’ve been writing a lot since I last wrote and so there are lots of pieces that should be appearing here soon – I’ll just have to figure out where to start. I’ve been doing a lot of research lately on the resources available today on IT Architect Careers. There isn’t much – a handful of books, a…
Ethics Skills in IT Architecture
A repost from The Architect Abstract I’ve been away building and authoring courses, so writing has gone into something other than frivolous blurbs. Just came back from an evening with a speaker on ethics – it was supposed to have something to do with Ethics in IT and although that’s not what it was about,
Architecture Skills and Competencies
An architect’s skills is a very blended list. The architect must have several key skills that are beyond their technical skills. Each specific architect will come with a bank of skills that they gleaned from being involved in the technology application or data areas of their previous experience within information technology.
Standarize Architecture Documents
Standardizing documents is not my intent for this article. It’s to share some experience and knowledge for building standards and deciding what should get standardized.
Modeling 101
This week let’s discuss Architecture with respect to the models required to build a system from the ground up. I won’t get into the details about how these models are built, just which ones you really really need.
IT Architect Skill Training – Why Is It So Popular?
If you ask just about any IT Director, Manager, or even PM, they’ll tell you that Architects are among-est the toughest resources to find. I’ve experienced this so often either when helping clients build their teams, or when I’ve tried to build them myself. Architect Boot Camp training was designed to help organizations train their own staff, or to help those in IT who have an affinity towards high end…
Architecture Training – What it Takes to Be Great
Happy Holiday Weekend To My Canadian Friends:- Some of you luck ones may have fled your cubes, offices or project rooms – and for those of you left, you might be in for a little reading. If you have been considering the Canadian training coming up October 20-24th, there are still 3 spots available in the IT Architect Boot Camp workshop, and 4 spots in the Solution Architect workshop. It…
IT Architect Skills
Recently I was asked that if a person was already acting in the role of a software integrator, did they really need to learn how to be an Architect. The answer was a little bit complicated, but it was an emphatic “yes!” While the basis or core skills of a great IT architect does come from solid software integration knowledge and practice, the basic practices, approaches and thought processes as…
The Role of the Architect
I’m emerging from the haze of planning for my upcoming Architect Boot Camp classes. My focus is editing my book, and between questions about “which course do I take” and “am I suited to be an architect”, I figured I’d write a series of posts related to the Architect’s Role. The Architect’s Role Problems are well less defined for an architect and they must spend the time to ensure that…
IT Architecture Training FAQs
First of all – reminder that the deadlines for early bird pricing on the Architect Boot Camp workshops in October are creeping up on us. Get your registration completed and reserve your spot at Early Bird Rates! There are limited seats, and all we need is your registration, and you’ve got your spot. We’ll send you confirmation and invoices. I’ve been answering a few questions in email lately, so I…
Architecting Business Intelligence
Everything you read recently declares: “It seems like all roads lead to business intelligence. For organizations that have started business intelligence initiatives, they soon find that they have huge storage issues.
What Is Business Architecture?
What is a Business Architecture? For most architects, this question seems one of the most hardest to understand. The focus area of enterprise architecture focused on defining the future state business model, organization and capabilities/services needed to satisfy ongoing business transformation efforts. An Enterprise Business Architecture (EBA) describes the various functions of an organization, the business processes that support those functions, and the relationship among the business processes. The EBA includes the current Business Objectives…
Seven Biggest Use Case Mistakes
— A reprint of an article written by Sharon C. Evans from the Canadian Information Processing Society Magazine Recently I’ve been asked yet again about best practices in writing use cases. I started researching this very topic back in the mid 90’s when there were really only two authors on the subject – Alistair Cockburn and DeChampeaux. They have become the ultimate in theorists, and really don’t make up such…