Architecture
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Key trends and challenges for Architecture teams in 2024
Architecture is central to an organization becoming adaptive and resilient through composable design, efficient processes and carefully designed deliverables. EA/Architecture functions have already started shaping their deliverables with insights and focusing the value delivery to stakeholders. However to deal with the pace of AI/GenAI, architecture teams need to upskill and develop their architecture frameworks for… Continue reading
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How MECE can help you create your technology strategy?
MECE, pronounced “mee-see,” stands for “Mutually Exclusive, Collectively Exhaustive”. Its origins can be traced back to Aristotle to Barbara Minto’s work in ‘Pyramid Principle’, however it was popularized by consulting firm McKinsey. Lets take some examples – Spades, Diamonds, Hearts, Clubs – is a MECE list for Playing Cards Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall – is… Continue reading
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Architect
Architect is an interesting role and most people in the IT want to do this role while knowing the least about the role. The term “architect” didn’t enter popular usage to describe a software architect until the late 1990s. This was ridiculed as an overblown, fancy and misappropriation from a “real” architecture field. Major confusion… Continue reading
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Understanding Cloud Native
There is so much confusion around the term cloud native. Let’s first understand the definition. I like Gartner’s definition as it is much more concise. “something is cloud-native if it is optimally leveraging or implementing cloud characteristics.” In an architectural view, Cloud-native applications should ideally be latency-aware, instrumented, failure-aware, event-driven, secure, parallel, automated and resource-consumption-aware… Continue reading
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Simple but not simplistic
A lot of time as an architect you are faced with the challenge of presenting your solutions in a simpler form so that these can be understood by different stakeholders. There is an important distinction that I have learned over the years that a solution while presenting must be simple so that the concepts can… Continue reading
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Being creative vs logical
Do we really get rewarded for being creative or imaginative and breaking conventional logical approach? In a typical organisational setup, you follow set of sequences in a logical way to approach a problem. In fact, you are quite appreciated for your logical approach. However certain problems need to be thought through from an imaginative and… Continue reading
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Downward Spiral
In last couple of days, this came out in discussion with my kids, whether my son playing a game of chess and making two consecutive mistakes or my daughter solving a maths problem and continue to making a second level error after failing to recognise the first. While this is quite common for kids to… Continue reading
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The Adjacent Possible
Coined by Scientist Stuart Kauffman and popularized by Steven Johnson the term ‘the adjacent possible’ captures the limits and potential of an innovation. In simple term a successful innovation happens when it leverages the strengths of fields/domains around the core invention. For example, PayPal was first introduced as a payment method for transferring money between… Continue reading
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Architecting for Future !!!
As an architect, you often get caught in the situation of architecting for future vs now. Though temptation and sponsors’ pressure is always on resolving the immediate need but be mindful of the future scenarios. I am not suggesting an all upfront architecture but building flexibility to adapt to new requirements, at least at the foundation level.… Continue reading
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Good detectives and Bad criminals
John Seely Brown shares “In learning to recognise and distinguish information, people behave like good detectives, continually working with the clues that they find at the scene, extrapolating from partial evidence to the whole story. To engage these practices, good designers, by contrast, need to be more like bad criminals than good ones, always leaving… Continue reading
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