By Paul Preiss, of Iasa Global I have been getting a lot of questions lately about how architecture fits with agents, and honestly the questions are mostly the same question. Somebody has been told by […]
By Paul Preiss, of Iasa Global I am unsettled this week. I sat down again and did a piece of arithmetic I have been dodging for about a decade. Ive been saying for years that […]
By Paul Preiss, of Iasa Global I keep watching people hand junior architects the wrong two documents. Services and Landscape. Someone gets promoted out of engineering, does well, shows promise, and within a month somebody […]
By Paul Preiss, of Iasa Global I remember the first time I watched two senior architects argue for two hours about a system design and realize at the end they had been describing the same […]
By Paul Preiss, of Iasa Global Most architects treat the context view as a technical artifact. Draw the system box. Add some arrows. Label the external systems. Done. But a context view that isn’t anchored […]
By Paul Preiss, of Iasa Global I’ve been having a lot of conversations with senior developers and engineers over the past year or so. Good conversations. The kind where people are actually trying to work […]
By Paul Preiss Medicine went through its version of this reckoning. Clinical practice had accumulated decades of treatments that practitioners recommended with confidence, based on training, professional consensus, and the authority of senior clinicians. Then […]
By Paul Preiss, Iasa Global There are two roles in building a building… the innovator and the inspector. Which one do you want to be? There is a persistent idea, and I hear it from […]
By Paul Preiss, of Iasa Global Isabella of Castile did not sail anywhere. She funded the expedition, weighed the risk, allocated the resources, and waited for a return. She was excellent at investment planning. Columbus, […]
By Paul Preiss How the Fall of Agile and the Rise of AI Are Reinstating the Most Important Role in Technology – The architecture profession has been in structural decline for fifteen years. The Making […]