The architect role explained

As a consulting solution and enterprise architect, I frequently need to explain what I do – and don’t do. Too often clients, recruiters and agencies search for an architect without understanding the role.

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The enterprise architecture canvas

When advising clients on enterprise architecture, helping them implement and integrate ERP and CRM systems, or developing new software for them, I’m often asked to review their enterprise architecture, and sometimes help them document it.

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Designing for observability

Observability is an alarmingly underestimated quality of solution architecture, because it’s never the ‘business’ who asks for it. But it’s absolutely essential for achieving good auditability and operability, and it helps you monitor your capacity, performance and availability.

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Business continuity and continuous improvement

Learn how discover that it’s time to start a development project – and what should be its objective. And realize that this is rarely what happens, and how that puts the projects on the wrong course right from the start.

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Documenting architecture

Need a practical template for your architecture document? Feel free to use mine! If you are a stakeholder in a development project, demand that the project delivers architecture documentation that meets this standard.

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