Tender Irony: Barrier to Innovation is Innovation?

How Public Sector Procurement for Innovation is Stifling Innovation Expensively

In recent years, I’ve been looking at procurement in a whole different light. I’ve…

DDD: Every Domain has Multiple-Languages

Architects need to help identify and work with the bounded contexts

Part 7. Face-to-face conversation is the best form of communication (co-location)

In a previous blog, I indicated why this principle is highly deficient when applied to anyone outside the immediate development team. Additionally, there is a strict reluctance from both…

Part 3. Working software is delivered frequently (weeks rather than months)

This is the same as stating that an organisation needs to be able to change direction quickly and change its internal operation to match. SOA platforms deliver this using orchestration processes where…

Part 6. Close, daily co-operation between business people and developers

Remember, in TOGAF everything and everyone is a capability at a high level. Looking down from a strategic architecture, through segmented architecture at the capabilities, we see that IT is a capability…

Part 4. Working software is the principal measure of progress

I personally have a problem with this definition anyway. ‘Working software’ as the agile developers of today know it, is necessary but not sufficient. If the definition of working software is to include ‘fit for purpose’…

Entering the Worldwide Scale-up Ecosystem

BusinessCloud Breakfast: What does Manchester need to court?

Think Small to Go Big!

How splitting up your work into smaller, discrete tasks, can help you and your business go further, faster.

You see a lot of “Life Hack” advice appearing on many sites including our fair…

Part 5. Sustainable development, able to maintain a constant pace

TOGAF maintains the status quo and doesn’t explicitly address tempo in the standard. Again, it is more interested in the delivery of capabilities to the business and it is the programme management office’s…