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The Effective Architect: September 2010

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Because all architects can improve their effectiveness. Sunday, September 12, 2010. The importance of repetition. How often do you remember someone's name after having met them once and then not seeing them again for one or more years later? What's the liklihood that you'll remember the name after you've met that same person a few different times, or after you've spent some length of time engaged in meaningful conversation with them? Probably significantly higher, right? I highly recommend reading it.

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The Effective Architect: August 2010

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Because all architects can improve their effectiveness. Saturday, August 21, 2010. Forecasts for technology architect jobs: Increasingly sunny after a few more years of stormy skies. Architects tend to have a breadth of skills across many areas, and are oftentimes, no longer. Thankfully, the times they are a changin' though. With the advent of cloud computing, and the notion of delivering IT as a service, I believe that organizations who. You'll find you need a lot. More than just technical skills! So ex...

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The Effective Architect: June 2009

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Because all architects can improve their effectiveness. Monday, June 22, 2009. Effective architects are leaders. Warren G. Bennis once said “Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” To expand on the two key parts of the statement, the architect must:. Doing so requires that you first have a strong understanding of the problem which needs to be solved. You can read more on that topic in the post titled “ Solve problems, not symptoms. 8221; Once you. To achieve the outcome, but rather,.

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The Effective Architect: Be accountable for your actions & hold others accountable for theirs

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Because all architects can improve their effectiveness. Wednesday, September 9, 2009. Be accountable for your actions and hold others accountable for theirs. The highest performing teams that I've worked with have the best mix of:. Each individual on the team knowing. Them), as well as. On the team to execute their responsibilities to the best of their ability. all. Does this mean you don't help teammates when they're. Absolutely not.but there's a big. People and trying to. For them because you. Understa...

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The Effective Architect: The complexity condundrum

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Because all architects can improve their effectiveness. Sunday, September 5, 2010. Albert Einstein once said that "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.". The quote is profound on one hand, but terribly ambiguous on another :). I recently read an article titled The Collapse of Complex Business Models. By Clay Shirky. The article covers Clay's thoughts and impressions of a book written by Joseph Tainter titled The Collapse of Complex Societies. Why is that suggested? Of the maj...

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The Effective Architect: Sooner or later, everyone will touch the stove

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Because all architects can improve their effectiveness. Saturday, July 18, 2009. Sooner or later, everyone will touch the stove. If you're a parent, you remember when your child was a toddler and you told them not to touch the stove because it was hot. Like any good parent, you probably told your toddler time and time again but found that at some point, the toddler touched the stove anyway. Why? I mention this as a metaphor for architects. Effective architects know that eventually, people will. Which det...

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The Effective Architect: September 2009

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Because all architects can improve their effectiveness. Monday, September 21, 2009. Precision questioning and answering. Of course architects don't have answers to all questions, but it's critical that they know how to ask. Questions. Sure, you know that, and you've heard it said many times before but I do want to focus on it for this post. I've worked on many projects over the years where people simply asked unclear questions and as a result, got unclear answers. In your questioning.and,. If you and the...

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The Effective Architect: August 2009

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Because all architects can improve their effectiveness. Monday, August 24, 2009. Technology breadth and depth. While all architects were experts in certain technologies at some point in their careers, they now spend more time learning all they can about as many. Technologies as they can rather than spending significant time learning all there is to know about. For more on this topic) technology decisions to solve specific business problems. To make the. Consider the following steps:. Determine the pros/c...

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The Effective Architect: July 2009

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Because all architects can improve their effectiveness. Saturday, July 18, 2009. Defines systems thinking as "any process of estimating or inferring how local policies, actions, or changes influences the state of the neighboring universe. It also can be defined, as an approach to problem solving, as viewing "problems" as parts of an overall system, rather than reacting to present outcomes or events and potentially contributing to further development of the undesired issue or problem.". I've worked with m...