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The Simple Architecture Movement

By Scott Andersen

To Be Simple.

• Step 1: Reduce Complexity.
• Step 2: Document reality.
• Step 3: If in doubt refer to rule one.

The Right Thing To Do…

By Scott Andersen

Wait, is that a smoke screen before me?

If for a moment we consider the concept of cloud computing as a fad what does that mean?

A fad being something that appears and then quickly fades from view and is only talked about by late night comedians (remember cloud — those were…

More Ethical questions for architects

By Scott Andersen

Two new ethical questions for architects.

The first question is for architects that create content to be consumed by organizations and other architects in the production of a solution for the…

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.

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…

Ethical Dilemma’s for Software Architects…

The ethics of software architecture are comprised of a series of responses to regulatory and other formal requirements. Building a system that violates the law isn’t ethical and its pretty much wrong to boot. But there are a number of other ways you can…

When does the software architect stop being responsible for a solution? At the end of design? The end of deployment? 20 years after?

by Scott Andersen

Ethical question–who owns my blog?

by Scott Andersen

So last week I posted another blog on the concept of Ethics and Architects. It was a dilemma from a reader. Monday as I checked my email I had gotten another suggestion for a topic/dilemma for architects in the field of…