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.7 min read·Mar 26, 2019--2--2
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…6 min read·Dec 11, 2018--2--2
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…2 min read·Dec 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.7 min read·Nov 26, 2018--4--4
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…7 min read·Aug 31, 2018--2--2
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…8 min read·Mar 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…8 min read·Feb 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…9 min read·Jan 12, 2017--3--3
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…7 min read·Dec 30, 2016--3--3
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…7 min read·Dec 22, 2016--1--1