This might be a good analogy: CTO is a landscape artist. There is this rather lovey named discipline called: Landscape architecture. Thus CTO might be seen as an artist of his organization’s IT landscape. Among other duties, forever pruning and grafting and taking out the IT weed. And that garden grows (weed including), 24 x 7, 365 days per year. Continue reading
Architecture. A formal description of the system
What an Architect is not?
There are organizations making a mistake of not clarifying that question. Alienating in that oversight, a lot of good architects. An illustration?
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As a business leader, do keep on engaging with Enterprise Architects regularly. Your business depends on it. Continue reading
What is that and why would I write a blog post about it?
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Often, we find ourselves thinking: “I thought that is obvious…”
For example. What I thought is obvious on what is the necessary precondition to moving the business to the cloud.
So, what is it then? Continue reading

“Hands-on” Architect , is like a Brick Layer who is sometimes an Architect
Do not get confused. Stay competitive.
Hire an Enterprise Architect and let him define the road-map for your business. Let him ask you the difficult questions, before you answering them to the board.
Good Architect will define the feasible solutions, as you understand them. From your point of view.