Whenever you get a bunch of technical architects in a room with a whiteboard and markers, it’s not going to be long before somebody goes up to the board and draws a box. Doesn’t matter the kind of architect: solution, application, infrastructure, enterprise, and, yes, data. We love whiteboards. We Read more…
Do you gravitate toward the most difficult problems? Do you seek out the most interesting and impactful challenges? If so, then 6 Secrets for Delivering Impossible Projects will give you the tools to successfully deliver your own Impossible Projects On Tuesday, October 29th, family, friends, and colleagues gathered at the Read more…
What’s not to love about a good enterprise analytical data consolidation project? You can just see the PowerPoint slide, can’t you? On the left, boxes like stars in a clear night sky, each representing some number of analytical repositories or data sources. On the right, one nice big box. Neat, Read more…
Part 1 of the Hidden Costs of Migration introduced the key high-level challenge associated with hardware and software migration projects: They’re not change the business. They’re not run the business. They’re a full stop, with the expectation that progress will be faster when it’s finished. The objective, then, is to offset Read more…
Hardware and software migration projects are like crack for IT executives. Especially when the number on the new invoice is smaller than the number on the old invoice. Even better when the products can be folded into a previously negotiated enterprise agreement and made to appear free. Add to that Read more…
I’m not sure that I know anyone in the data and analytics field whose platform doesn’t face continuous, or at least annual, budget scrutiny. Analytics is expensive. And when cost-cutting is the order of the day, analytics is a big target. Up shields. Time for another Business Value Inventory. I’ve Read more…
I once served as Lead Architect on a very large project where I had to produce process and data flow diagrams that included several application areas with which I was not familiar. Not surprisingly, they went through many, many iterations. After we had successfully delivered the project, the Domain Architect Read more…