The Art of Accepting Feedback

January 24, 2013

As practicing solution and enterprise architects we regularly present our work to our stakeholders for feedback. Those stakeholders range from mentors to peers to project teams to executive sponsors. In any and all of those situations, it is important to be able to accept feedback. Read more



Pre-Requirement Estimation for IT Projects

September 24, 2012

Objectives and requirements – they are what makes the project world go ’round. Changing a business’ operations for the better requires one to decide what are the objectives of the change, and what are the requirements a change must meet to satisfy the objective.

Implementing the change usually starts with someone needing to know what the change is going to cost!

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Value-driven Status

July 4, 2012

If you work in a professional environment, you inevitably have to communicate the status of your work to your manager. If you are in the professional services business, then you have an even tougher “manager” – your client.

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The Solution Architect’s Path to Success

April 11, 2012

Welcome to today’s blog. Sit back and relax. Close your eyes. Take some deep relaxing breaths. Envision a Utopian architecture project delivery:

  • Scope is clear and agreed upon,
  • Requirements are carefully crafted,
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