In the previous post, we examined some of the characteristics of early application systems through the lens of the tools employed to build and operate…
After people and processes, applications are a primary enabler of business capabilities for most organizations of any size. In the early days of commercial computing,…
I have written in past posts about the need to apply a risk-adjusted approach to managing information and communication technology (ICT). The focus I have…
When I think of the term ‘Fashion Victim’ these two shots from Brazil (one of my favorite movies of all time) come to mind: There…
In the previous posts in this series, we covered: Part I: models of the enterprise and ICT and the need to rationalize the two in…
In previous posts, I defined a simple hierarchy for portraying the Enterprise and made a case for the importance of understanding and documenting the as-is…
In the previous post, I defined a simple hierarchy for portraying the Enterprise: Strategy—What markets will we serve and how will we position ourselves in…
A model of an average enterprise is multidimensional. There are more than the three dimensions with which we are intrinsically comfortable or the seven that…
A model of an average enterprise contains numerous dimensions, way more than the three that we are intrinsically familiar and comfortable with or the seven…
If there is a divisive issue in the world of applications development, it is Agile. On one side, there are Scrum Masters, Extreme Programmers and…