Simple Architectures for Complex Enterprises

What does IT failure cost us annually? A lot. According to the World Technology and Services Alliance, countries spend, on average, 6.4% of ...

- Complexity is like heat. We need just enough to solve the problem. Any more kills us. - The best IT solution is the simplest IT solution t...

The most important factor in building a successful IT project is simplification. Simplification means that the overall system should be as s...

I don't know how this got started, but we were tweeting a discussion about enterprise architecture, and somehow the question came up... ...

IT Systems are failing at an alarming rate and the rate of failure is increasing. Approaches that we have used in the past to successfully d...

As I was tweeting the other day, I came upon a tweet from Noel Dickover about large systems being less adaptable than small systems. This be...

After many years in IT, I am convinced that code complexity is a relatively unimportant issue. This may sound strange, coming from someone w...