By Paul Preiss When I first began shaping the idea that would become Iasa, the very first person I spoke to was Grady Booch. At that time, the vision for a global architecture community was […]
By Paul Preiss Let’s be honest: most organizations don’t really manage technical debt. They track it like a credit card balance that never gets paid down, piling up until the interest eats away at innovation, […]
By Paul Preiss, of Iasa Global I’ve been in enough boardrooms, war rooms, and “innovation labs” to know the truth: architects often get rewarded for sounding right, not for actually getting anything real done. Frameworks […]
By Paul Preiss Every architecture you’ve ever touched has a life. It starts with a spark of an idea — maybe on a napkin, maybe in a three-day workshop — and it travels through strategy, […]
By Paul Preiss There are several tools that exist for architects to create/design, communicate and assess their architectures more effectively. The vast majority of the BTABoK is actually focused on what we call the Red […]
By Paul Preiss Many of you who read my blog will raise your hand when I ask who owns a home. But when I ask who really owns a home, most of those hands will […]
By Paul Preiss Architecturally significant decisions (ASDs) are “the stuff that matters” as Martin Fowler describes it. They describe the scope and boundaries of a decision that will have significant impact on the outcomes of […]
By Paul Preiss The Bounded Context Canvas fits into strategy and execution by helping to develop a shared understanding of a system and its business context we are building. This shared understanding is essential for […]
By Paul Preiss Microservices were too small, SOA was too big. DDS is juuuuust right. I never really bought into the MS hype. It has always looked like adding too much complexity related to benefits. […]
By Paul Preiss When I was a boy I loved legos, as so many architects and engineers did. It was a deeply calming and deeply engaging exercise in creativity. I would build for hours and […]