Enterprise Architect

3 Important Questions To Ask Your Cloud Provider Before You Commit

As many organisation are starting to understand how to use Cloud services (and Cloud providers themselves are maturing), there will no doubt be some mistakes along the way.  If you find yourself in a position where you decide to exit, you want to make the transition to another Cloud provider (or back on premise) to be as smooth as possible.

The Top 3 Questions Your Model Should Be Able To Answer

We architects like creating models, but do we ever ask ourselves what exact questions users have?  Who will be the users of the model, what’s important to them, what are their use cases? What does a good model do that allows them to get the answers they need more easily?

Using the Business Motivation Model: Influencers and Assessments

This post will go on to describe three other essential concepts (Influencer, Assessment and Impact) as well as return to the Means concept to explore the idea of Directives. The previous diagram can be expanded to conclude these new concepts.