Mental Momentum: Unsticking a Stuck Design

Investigative Architecture is our “bread and butter.”  We facilitate meetings with stakeholders, understand what they have or what they want, and use diagrams to rapidly drive to a clear consensus regarding what is there (“as is”) or what should be there (“to be”).  We have refined our approach over many years into a clear, well defined, proven methodology.  We write articles on our approach, we mentor clients, and we sell training.

So why am I stuck?  Read more

10 Tips for “Freestyle” Diagrams

We have made clear, and will continue to do so – in assorted blogs, tweets, and diatribes – the importance of consistent notations for diagrams. This was a significant driver behind our adoption of UML as our diagramming standard.

None-the-less, there do come times when we are forced to work “freestyle.”  Read more