In architecture we are on a daily basis helping our colleagues to make important decisions and sometimes we have to decide things ourselves. For all these decisions there is one very obvious question – which is what is it going to cost to implement the decision. The cost could be measured in money, development hours […]
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More than five years ago my former colleague Driek Desmet and myself published and article about platform architectures. In the meantime I had the pleasure to implement these principles at different companies and in a loose series I would like to share some of the learnings from these projects. Before we go there we have
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This article continues the discussion about IT Costs that started last week. While the last four questions where focused on creating transparency for the IT cost position with the remaining six points we want to dive a bit deeper and try to analyze where all the money goes and if it is aligned with the
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Most architects are excited to talk about innovation, strategy, business partnership and long term roadmaps and only few are motivated to talk about a very boring topic – such as IT cost. From my point of view this is a mistake that quite often is a major roadblock for a productive discussion. If we take
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Good decisions on the IT project portfolio are essential for driving business strategy. A good decision requires a solid process and a good visualization for the decision makers. We will talk about the process in another post and focus today on the visualization part. A standard way to visualize the project portfolio would be to
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In this little blog series about tech debt I started with an explanation for non-tech stakeholders, then this article shared a few ideas on how to measure tech debt and finally the one from last week talked about how to charge back tech debt to the business unit in charge of it. To be clear:
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In an earlier article I looked at the various way how to communicate tech debt. But only very few people will actually care about any form of debt if they don’t have to pay interest rates. This is where the magic of a meaningful charge back model comes into play. Let’s take a look at
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Nowadays time to market might be the most important deliverable that the business expects from IT. When I was discussing the challenges the business is facing with IT 15 or 20 years ago the cost of IT were always top of the list. Today the cost are still important but the number one complaint is
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It is quite important to measure tech debt as thing you don’t measure typically do not get managed and if we look at our research data it seems that managing complexity and technology debt is a high priority for Enterprise Architecture. A quick look at consumer finance Before we talk about technology debt let’s talk
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Are you building the brand new star ship on top of a horse and carriage? This is what we do a lot in a large Enterprise context these days. We build fancy new solutions, like AI or direct to customer solutions on top of the technical debt of the last decades. One major problem is
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