As a Solution Architect, you intersect with all entities that have a vested interest in the solution, including, business sponsors and associated business team, business managers, and business analysts to different degrees. As being responsible and accountable to get the […]
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From Assumptions to Hypothesis to Decision. Better Decisions Through Methodology.
The decisions made by Solution Architects have significant impacts and consequences for the organization and their people. They can have broad impacts on their customers, suppliers, and partners. Significant decisions are not to be taken lightly, so architects need to […]
Consensus and the Danger it Poses to Strategic Decision Making
This morning I was thinking about ‘group think’, ‘decision making’, ‘tribalism’ and the various outcomes that can occur depending on the methodology and how much weight is given to consensus especially when we use consensus to reduce accountability or delegate […]
Six Key Traits of Successful Solution Architect Consultants
I have been thinking about some of the qualities that make up good solution architects. I believe I’ve come up with a short list of the best qualities to expect from a solution architect. This list is not exhaustive, but […]
Beginning and Evolving a Microservices Architecture
Domain driven design and microservices belong together and they go hand in hand, so as part of an overall architecture strategy, it’s important to consider how you are structuring your components, or in the case of a monolith or existing […]
Refining and Applying Methodology and Rules of Engagement at the Onset of New IT Consulting (B2B) Projects
As a consultant and the director and controller of a software consulting company, I’m often regularly engaged as a consultant on new projects with new clients as part of a contract for services business relationship. As a consultant it’s important […]
Ensuring Your Tactical State Architecture is Practical
When building out architecture (solution/software/integration/digital/etc architecture), it’s important to consider if the context of the architecture fits into tactical or not. What’s a tactical architecture? I define tactical architecture as “temporary” architecture that gets the business to a reasonable target […]
How to Constructively Disagree (as a Solutions Architect)…
I’m experimenting with a more informal style post today, and I am writing about something that is on my mind – disagreement in the realm of solution architecture. Today, my wife and I had breakfast at 8:30 followed by 30km […]
Architecting Your Enterprise APIs Into a Set of API Experiences and the Demise of the Monolithic API
As organizations move to API-lead approaches to architecture and design new API target states for the organization, the concept of a set of publishing a set of experience based API services no doubt come into play. API Management application vendors […]
Understanding API Centric Logical Architecture
As organizations adopt more API centric approaches to system connectivity, effective API architecture is required to ensure a coherent API strategy across the enterprise and ensure that executives, business, and technical teams are aligned and have buy-in on the API […]