By Alok Mehta, SVP, CIO Business Systems, Kemper Corporate Services We are living in interesting times. With the pandemic mostly behind us but still lingering, our IT teams have adopted fairly well in producing remarkable […]
By Scott Ambler, Consulting Methodologist, Ambysoft Inc. In Agile Architecture for Software Development Teams: Doing Agile I described a collection of techniques for agile architects, one of which is inclusive modeling. As agilists we work […]
Results from a recently released survey conducted by the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) and VMware suggests that Application Modernization is “an Imperative for State Governments.” The findings include survey data from […]
By Leonard Greski, SPC, ARCH In Getting Beyond Ourselves I asserted that business capabilities are the highest unit of value production within an organization, and that we can (and must) quantify their value. The ability […]
By Chris Lockhart, Director at Point Management Group There are challenges in companies that have historically delivered capability via traditional methods, on traditional timelines, with traditional skills, whenever new blood decides that they should be agile. […]
By Whynde Kuehn, Founder and Managing Director of S2E Transformation Inc. After our recent soft launch announcement of the Women in Architecture global initiative, I am entirely inspired, encouraged, and deeply proud of the response […]
Today’s CIOs increasingly recognize the connection between good IT architecture and the successful enterprise. So not surprisingly, discussions related to architecture, informal and formal, were common at the recently held MIT Sloan CIO Symposium. We […]
By Scott Ambler (Editor’s Note: Part I appeared Monday here.) In Agile Architecture for Software Development Teams: Being Agile we explored the mindset required to be successful at architecture on agile teams. This mindset is […]
By Scott Ambler (Editor’s Note: Part II will follow later this week.) Architecture, whether you care to admit it or not, is an important aspect of any software development method. At one end of the […]
The Open Group, a vendor-neutral technology consortium, has announced the release of the TOGAF® Standard, 10th Edition, marking what it calls “a major milestone in the development of the world’s most widely-used Enterprise Architecture framework.” […]