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Architecture

  • Choice Architecture

    Dave Trott shares some interesting examples of choice architecture At a school in the USA, the girls in their early teens had just discovered lipstick. They would go into the female toilets to apply it. Then, giggling, they’d leave imprints of their lips on the large mirror. This made a lot of extra work for… Continue reading

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  • Statics and Dynamics of Architecture

    While static (systems, applications etc.) elements are important and have a purpose in the enterprise but their value only comes out when they are combined with dynamic elements (integrations, interfaces). Often dynamic elements are much more valuable than the statics. In the human analogy if we consider humans, as static then relationship among humans is… Continue reading

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  • Don’t underestimate your experience?

    A lot of time you underestimate or don’t give a deserved credit to your experience. Because when it comes to bring out a solution in your core area of expertise; often it doesn’t require much of your effort or time. But if you analyse deep down that this low effort swift response has come from your… Continue reading

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  • Context is going to be the King

    We have seen a great shift in UI experience with the change of strategy to ‘Mobile First’. Responsive web design is the norm for any website now. Websites adjust the contents and context based on user’s device. But organisations are digging deeper on the context not only from UI but UX(Whole experience) perspective. They are… Continue reading

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  • Downstream process gaps could create upstream chaos !!!

    A fantastic example of how the downstream process gaps could create the upstream chaos. My office ID card got expired recently and I was asked to stay at reception until security team call my line manager to confirm if I was still employed. Though I had already applied for ID renewal and could show the approval… Continue reading

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  • Architectural Attitude

    As an architect, you deal with many situations or discussions where you may not have the answer to every problem at hand but having an attitude of ‘I don’t know but I can find out’ makes the difference? Many times we rush through with our answers or expert within us gets hurt if we don’t know, though… Continue reading

  • Important architecture Tool – Drawing

    Drawing(I am not suggesting professional art) is an essential toolset for an architect. When nothing seems clear whether it is the beginning of a new project or critical phase of the project when the solution is fuzzy, walking up to the whiteboard and drawing a box or two with some connections between the boxes gets the discussion started.… Continue reading

  • Have you found WOMBAT with your solution?

    WOMBAT is the acronym used for ‘Waste Of Money, Brain And Time’. Every now and then you experience a WOMBAT with the solutions you are creating. When things go wrong there is a tendency to stick with our guns, being defensive about our original assumptions and trying to find ways to continue on the same… Continue reading

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  • Important Architecture Tool – Stakeholder Analysis

    As I wrote earlier in my blog, Architecture is a dialogue. One of the keys for this dialogue is to understand your stakeholders. Though TOGAF defines the stakeholder analysis as the Phase A (Architecture Vision) activity, but in major change programmes; architecture is always in progress and keeps adding new streams of work, hence new stakeholders. However, the… Continue reading

  • Are SMART business scenarios/goals good enough for a change situation ?

    As TOGAF defines key factor in the success of an enterprise architecture is the extent to which it is linked to business requirements, and demonstrably supporting and enabling the enterprise to achieve its business objectives/goals. It further suggests, business objectives/goals to be “SMART”. Specific – Defining what needs to be done in the business Measurable… Continue reading