A Brief Architecture Assessment
I was on a two-week assignment up North with a SMB client. The ask was to produce a view of their existing IT landscape and make initial recommendations for improvements and potential “quick wins”. There’s only so much…
Read more »A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words
Many eons before the advent of computers and sophisticated spoken languages, the conveyance of ideas among individuals relied on pictures. The use of visual representations for communication has persisted throughout history. In contemporary times, especially within the realm…
Read more »IT Architecture Is A Team Sport
Teamwork makes the dream work John C. Maxwell Developers often think that they are smarter than everyone else, especially their business colleagues. Since Architects tend to come from a development background they may bring that ‘baggage’ with them…
Read more »Unlocking Security Architecture
Security often seems to be an afterthought when designing applications. Some architects tend to fob off the responsibility to either some Application Server we are using, the environment team that will harden our servers, or the network team…
Read more »Design For Disaster
Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face. Mike Tyson There are many different considerations when looking at Disaster Recovery (DR) and in many ways it is a specialist field of technical architecture. It is…
Read more »ERP Implementation – Lessons Learnt
The only mistake in life is the lesson not learned Albert Einstein Embarking on an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) cloud transformation project poses a multifaceted and challenging task. Below are a valuable collection of lessons learnt from such…
Read more »Single Source of Truth
You want the truth? You can’t handle the truth! Col. Jessup (Jack Nicholson)-A Few Good Men Let’s start with a puzzle that you’re most likely familiar with: “You are a prisoner in a room with 2 doors and…
Read more »Keep It Simple, Stupid!
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Leonardo da Vinci Although Leonardo da Vinci wasn’t a ‘technology’ architect, his advice can be applied to architecting solutions in two ways: Architect for today’s requirementsThe solution should be designed to meet today’s…
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