Faster Horses — Henry Ford and Customer Development

Architects and Innovation — Part 1

As architect teams begin to consider their engagement model, they must include their approach to innovation. Unfortunately, though most architects would like to immediately create innovative change in their companies, there are a lot of roadblocks to getting your…

Solution and Business Architecture — The Way Ahead

As both business and solution architecture mature, we are seeing more and more questions come up about how to integrate these often confused disciplines and roles. The heart of the matter lies in two formidable and potentially risky issues…

Architecture Governance, According to TOGAF

by Nick Rozanski

The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) defines architecture governance as “the practice and orientation by which enterprise architectures and other architectures are managed and controlled at an…

More Ethical Dilemma’s for Software Architects

by Scott Andersen

Architects, Ethics and more Dilemmas

There are times in life when in fact the mistakes we make don’t impact us. There are times when the mistakes almost drown out the good things…

One more ethical dilemma for software architects

By Scott Andersen

I got a great email this week about ethics. The question was about a dilemma I hadn’t gotten to as of yet but still valid and very much an ethical concept to consider.