embrace the complexity

We live in times awash in simplicity and simple-minded thinking. But life is not simple. Nor are the challenges and issues facing us all, yet our culture seems to thirst for the false dichotomy of simple answers to complex problems. We seek the simple. We want simplicity. Thus, I feel that everyone misses the point. … Continue reading embrace the complexity →

Which Enterprise Architect did you mean?

The IT industry has a magnificent history of appropriating titles and then through the process of demand outstripping supply, diluting the skills and requirements for those roles to a new lowest common denominator based average. We have seen this across IT specific roles in each of the pre-millennium “revolutions” (think the desktop design revolution of … Continue reading Which Enterprise Architect did you mean? →

Is EA broken? Does EA have value?

These are the questions de jour on many forums, in recent trade articles and across the LinkedIn environment. It would be easy to simply respond with “no” and move on, but nobody has time for such a short response, so this longer response is required. I have always been a huge fan of utilising analogies … Continue reading Is EA broken? Does EA have value? →