Architecture

About metaphors, lead architect as horseman or amazon, Lipizzaners, Skala, Bloom Taxonomy, educational framework

A while ago I was interviewed about the new developments regarding DYA and our new way of looking at our own role as architects.

When it comes to designing and implementing integration solutions, choosing the appropriate protocol is crucial.

I have found that there are three very relevant metaphors. The garden, river and clock. What can I and my digital and virtual writing companion come up with regarding core values?

With the garden metaphor, we can highlight the role of the enterprise architect in designing, planning, and managing the organisation's structure and components to create a thriving and harmonious ecosystem.

Using metaphors is an essential part of sensemaking, of making sense of your environment, to create a shared vision about what you are as an organisation. It helps you deal with complexity. An essential instrument in the toolbox of a sensemaking architect.

As enterprise architects, we need to be aware of the plethora of available metaphors. Be extremely aware of the effect they have on our way of working, our mind-set, our deliverables and our effect on the organisations we create and support.

This third and final blog in this series, is about ethics and their relation to architecture principles.

With this basic understanding of what architecture principles are, the next question to be answered is, how are they created and used? Read about this in part 2 of this series.

Focussing on the architecture principles, can we explain something about their working? How does an organisation get to a workable, effective set of principles? Let’s dig in…

This paper gives more insight in the differences between principle-based and rule-based architecture approaches as well as the implications of choosing one over the other. The objective of this paper is to provide a sound basis for organisations to develop a well-informed perspective on how to effectively apply architecture principles within their own specific context. This paper was first released in 2016. Because the content is in line with our vision on Sensemaking Architecture, it has been restyled and added to the series of white papers on Sensemaking Architecture.

With the rise of cloud, cloud-native and a lot of other buzzwords, we also see the rise of all kinds of Dev(fill here)Ops practices. While I'm an avid advocate of the DevOps mindset, all the buzz around pipelines sounds old-school to me.