You cannot escape Architecture. The absence of architecture is, itself, an architecture, tho not a particularly good one. Given that, it’s probably best to learn how to make better ones.

“All we know about the new economic world tells us that nations which train engineers will prevail over those which train lawyers. No nation has ever sued its way to greatness.” - Richard Lamm

More and more, I think most things that orgs worry about don’t matter. IMO, software is a social endeavor, Psychological safety, human-centric workplaces, collaborative cultures built on trust & communication without bullying & power games—that’s what matters. The rest is fluff.

"You always own the option of having no opinion." Marcus Aurelius

“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.” - Douglas Adams

The star of #steinheist has to be this little guy.

What makes us more creative? #creativity #montypython

To become “agile”, many teams seem to have abandoned architectural thinking, upfront design, documentation & more. However, upfront design can save you from costly reworks and refactoring. Learn more from Simon Brown's talk from last year. youtu.be/UzFpFQgeEyc

If you think technical excellence is expensive, try growing your software solution without it. #SoftwareDevelopment #agile

Put your Archimate models under source control using coArchi. coArchi is a free plug-in for Archi to provide git-styled source control for Archimate models. Get the newbie's guide to configure Archi to do this at markusvanaardt.com/2023/09/08/add…

Some people think "agile" is about answering the question "how many tickets can individuals process in a fortnight?" If that is you, please quit "agile" and try something more satisfying, human, and productive, like maybe actual agile software development?

Google Cloud accidentally deleted a company's entire cloud environment (Unisuper, an investment company, which manages $80B). The company had backups in another region, but GCP deleted those too. Luckily, they had yet more backups on another provider. theguardian.com/australia-news…

Too good not to share! Is this how Skynet will get us? Geek humour?