If you’ve worked in technology long enough, you’ve probably said it or heard it said quietly during a long week. “It all pays the same.” The phrase often emerges halfway through a project that feels fundamentally flawed. The scope is unclear, the timeline is unrealistic, and the stakeholders keep shifting. Despite numerous planning sessions, no…
In a previous post, we explored how accelerating mergers and acquisitions (M&A) impact technical architecture, with a particular focus on the Network Operations Center (NOC) and monitoring strategy. That discussion rightly emphasized tooling, telemetry, and architectural integration. But architecture alone does not keep the lights on. When an organization is acquiring companies at speed, the…
(A follow-up to the “IAM at ABC Health Now – a logical architecture for fast, secure M&A onboarding” post) In our previous post we walked through how our fictional organization, ABC Health Now, built a logical architecture to speed up and secure its mergers & acquisitions onboarding: the goal being faster time-to-value, lower friction, and…
In our last post, The Logical Architecture of our ABC Health Now Use Case, we looked at how IT translates business goals into something real and actionable. We showed how a logical architecture connects strategy to technology and how key capabilities like data integration, identity management, and collaboration tools come together to support business outcomes….
A follow-up to “Architecting Transformation: A Real-World IT Blueprint for Business Agility” by Jeffery Davidson In Jeff’s last post, we looked at how a clear conceptual architecture connects business goals to the technology and capabilities that enable them. The example of ABC Health Now showed how faster mergers and acquisitions can be achieved by aligning…
Let’s talk about something every IT team deals with, but few really take the time to unpack: technical debt. It’s not glamorous. It’s not exciting. But it’s everywhere. You see it in slow onboarding processes, outdated deployment methods, fragile integrations, and the phrase that always follows: “We’ve always done it this way.” Why Technical Debt…
In my last post, I talked about transformation as a coin with two sides. On one side you have strategy: the exciting stuff like OGSM frameworks, metrics, and target outcomes. On the other side you have Day-2 operational readiness, which is the way you actually do IT. Today, I want to flip the coin and…
In his recent blog series, Jeffrey Davidson has been breaking down the different types of IT architecture—conceptual, logical, and physical—and showing how each plays a role in aligning technology with business outcomes. I want to build on his perspective by introducing a parallel thread: how transformation connects with these architectural foundations. And let me start…
In technology, the temptation to customize is everywhere. A script here, a firewall tweak there, or a quick PowerShell command to “just make it work.” On the surface, these fixes look like efficiency. In practice, they are ticking time bombs. I’ve seen this play out firsthand. An organization I worked with endured a multi-month outage…
As a teenager, my career goals changed almost weekly. One week I wanted to be a stand-up comedian, the next an actor, then a filmmaker. The common thread was that I was drawn to creative pursuits. By the time I reached the end of high school, I had settled—at least temporarily—on becoming both a novelist…