James UrquhartStress and Mental Health: My StoryThis is the story of a scary time in my life; one in which work stress took a huge toll on my mental health.Mar 26, 20192Mar 26, 20192
James UrquhartinDigital AnatomyFlow and OODA: How Shared Events Will Accelerate Economic AutomationJohn Boyd’s famous outline of a rapid, iterative, and responsive decision making framework, the OODA loop, is famous in technology circles…Dec 11, 20182Dec 11, 20182
James UrquhartThe journey continues at PivotalToday it was announced that I have joined Pivotal Cloud Foundry and its Global Field CTO organization. I couldn’t be more excited about…Dec 3, 2018Dec 3, 2018
James UrquhartinDigital AnatomyWhy is Flow Important?Why are Flow architectures valuable, and what are the drivers for that value? This is an early attempt to answer that question.Nov 26, 20184Nov 26, 20184
James UrquhartinDigital AnatomyFive Facets of Flow StrategySo, after a long hiatus while I did a cool project at AWS, I’m now back to continue my thoughts on flow architectures (defined as…Aug 31, 20182Aug 31, 20182
James UrquhartinDigital AnatomyGameplay for Data FlowOnce we’ve done the work to understand our value chain, map it to evolution, and evaluate how context and doctrine bring clarity, it is…Mar 24, 2017Mar 24, 2017
James UrquhartinDigital AnatomyApplying doctrine to data flowUp until now, we have been stepping through Simon Wardley’s brilliant work on Wardley Mapping (https://medium.com/wardleymaps). We’ve…Feb 4, 2017Feb 4, 2017
James UrquhartinDigital AnatomyAdding Context To The Wardley Map of Data FlowThis post is a continuation of a process that I started in previous posts, including The Data Flow Value Chain and A Simple Wardley Map of…Jan 12, 20173Jan 12, 20173
James UrquhartinDigital AnatomyA Simple Wardley Map of Data FlowLast week I demonstrated the process for defining a “simple” value chain for “real time business automation”, which is my code phrase for…Dec 30, 20163Dec 30, 20163
James UrquhartinDigital AnatomyThe data flow value chainIn my last post, I highlighted the basic architecture of data flow, describing the “50 thousand foot view” of what data flow is from a…Dec 22, 20161Dec 22, 20161