The Argument: Better Architecture Everyday
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Featuring the world's greatest architecture speakers in enterprise, business, solution, cloud, software and more. We feature practical up to date interviews, techniques and success stories for better architecture.
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Aug 9, 2022
Interview with Brian Cameron
In this interview we dig into business and technology and the amazing work that Brian Cameron is doing at Penn State between the business and information technology schools to create a comprehensive framework for architecture. Building on his successes with FEAPO and the masters in architecture curriculum, Brian is forging new roads into both business and architecture.
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Aug 9, 2022
Interview with Mark Lankhorst
Marc Lankhorst as a leader in architecture tools is an an expert on his customer needs. This episode of The Argument was filled with useful discussions about the future of Bizzdesign and the techniques finding the most success with architecture teams. Wonderfully detailed conversations on business capabilities, services, processes and how they relate to each other.
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Apr 11, 2022
Stephen Cohen and Solution Architecture Part 2
Digging into engineering and architecture again with Stephen Cohen, Chief Architect and CITA-D. Had a great conversation about the nature of engineering vs architecture including design, teams, scope management and communication.
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Apr 11, 2022
Solution Architecture with Stephen Cohen Part 1
Had another amazing interview with a top-tier architect from Microsoft. In this episode we focus on the nature of Cloud Native applications in both socio-technical and transactional systems. The interview covers topics in Cloud, Mult-cloud, Strategy, Quality Attributes and engineering principles. This is part 1 of a two part series.
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Mar 14, 2022
Understanding customer engagement
Customer engagement is one of the most important aspects of our current methods for understanding value in digital innovation and advantage. In this episode, we discuss what customer engagement means and how to get into your customer's heads using empathy and personas.
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Mar 14, 2022
Mashup Series Part 1
How do we know architects are architects? Why does the industry continue to have such collisions in definitions, direction, and roles if architecture is so important to continual outcomes? This two-part continuation of the architecture mashup series provides insight into a murky topic area in search of answers.
Architect Tomorrow - https://youtube.com/ArchitectTomorrow/
Business Architecture Straight Talk https://bit.ly/st-podcasts / https://bizarchmastery.com/straighttalk
Consultants Saying Things - https://www.consultantssayingthings.com
The Argument by IASA - https://iasaglobal.org/Public/Connect...
Tech After Five - https://www.techafterfive.com/
Standardizing the Architecture profession is too big a topic for one episode or even one podcast (or one book author for that matter!), which is why this episode will be broken into two 25 min segments.
Whilst Oliver Cronk leader of Architect Tomorrow hosted the first mashup episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6Q5y2o6JWU) with Paul Preiss (CEO IASA), Chris Lockhart (CST), Whynde Kuehn (Straight Talk), Phil Yanov (Tech After Five and CST).
Join me on the Argument where we find and fix things.
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Mar 14, 2022
Mashup Series Part 2
How do we know architects are architects? Why does the industry continue to have such collisions in definitions, direction, and roles if architecture is so important to continual outcomes? This two-part continuation of the architecture mashup series provides insight into a murky topic area in search of answers.
Architect Tomorrow - https://youtube.com/ArchitectTomorrow/
Business Architecture Straight Talk https://bit.ly/st-podcasts / https://bizarchmastery.com/straighttalk
Consultants Saying Things - https://www.consultantssayingthings.com
The Argument by IASA - https://iasaglobal.org/Public/Connect...
Tech After Five - https://www.techafterfive.com/
Standardizing the Architecture profession is too big a topic for one episode or even one podcast (or one book author for that matter!), which is why this episode will be broken into two 25 min segments.
Whilst Oliver Cronk leader of Architect Tomorrow hosted the first mashup episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6Q5y2o6JWU) with Paul Preiss (CEO IASA), Chris Lockhart (CST), Whynde Kuehn (Straight Talk), Phil Yanov (Tech After Five and CST).
Join me on the Argument where we find and fix things.
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Dec 26, 2021
Interview with Len Bass
I had the honor of talking with Len Bass in this episode of the Argument. Leonard Joel Bass is an American software engineer, Emeritus professor and former researcher at the Software Engineering Institute, particularly known for his contributions on software architecture in practice. His most famous title is a book almost all architects have read Software Architecture in Practice, and his other books are just as essential to the modern architect!
In this session Len and I discussed modern architecture approaches with an eye towards design rigor and sustainability, but with a realistic view of similarities and differences in architecture complexity and design today. As one of the first authors I ever read as an architect this was a real pleasure for me!
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Dec 26, 2021
Interview with Simon Brown
In this interview I met with Simon Brown, international speaker and trainer and author. Simon is the author of Software Architecture for Developers; a developer-friendly guide to software architecture, technical leadership and the balance with agility. He is also the creator of the C4 software architecture model and the founder of Structurizr, a collection of tooling to help software teams visualise, document and explore their software architecture.
In this episode we dig into C4, domain driven design, software architecture methods and both little and big a agility. If you are hoping to design better software, you cant miss it.
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Nov 10, 2021
Domain Driven Design and Architecture
I had a great time discussing Domain Driven Design and Architecture in Agile. We found a huge amount of commonality with solution principles and business value while diving deeper on bounding contexts, capabilities and strategy. Nick is an amazing writer, speaker and author and writes regularly on medium at https://medium.com/nick-tune-tech-strategy-blog.
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Oct 21, 2021
Scott Ambler on Agile Architecture
In this version of the Argument we get into Agility, agile delivery, and agile architecture at scale. Scott Ambler is the co-founder of Disciplined Agile (DA), which was acquired by Project Management Institute (PMI) in August 2019. The DA tool kit is the world’s only comprehensive agile body of knowledge (BOK) that provides straightforward and practical guidance to help individuals, teams and enterprises choose their “way of working” in a context-specific way. Together, PMI and DA offer a unique and unparalleled value proposition to stakeholders who are committed to improving their personal, team and enterprise agility. In addition to his work on the DA tool kit, he is the creator of the Agile Modeling (AM) (AgileModeling.com) method and Agile Data (AD) (AgileData.org) methods. He have also (co-)authored several books, including Choose Your WoW!, An Executive's Guide to Disciplined Agile, Disciplined Agile Delivery, Refactoring Databases, Agile Modeling, and The Elements of UML…
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Sep 16, 2021
Is You Is or Is You Aint An Architect
The software or solution architect often comes from an engineering background. In this episode Cormac Keogh and Paul Preiss speak about the relationship between engineers. In a true argument the case of engineers, teams and architects. Can or should an engineer be the architect for a product/project? The team? Is there a difference between a titled architect and engineer? How do they work together?
In our research over the years one of the most critical paradoxes is the continued confusion over the boundaries between architect, engineer and developer. I separate these into three even though there is no industry-wide adoption of particular boundaries. For the purpose of this argument think of developers as self-taught and focused on smaller problems (no I don't mean title I mean competency!), engineers as trained and mentored but focusing on systemic structural elements and architects as outcome driven, trained and mentored creative and innovation focused with strong overlaps in depth…
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Sep 3, 2021
Discussion about BIL-T Architecture of Tomorrow
This is a bit of a rough episode where the group committee is discussing the architecture of tomorrow for our upcoming BIL-T conference on Nov 11. “They say the best way to predict the future, is to create it.”
The theme for our 11th of November event is *The Architecture of Tomorrow*. We have many hints at what the future will look like, but what will it mean with smartphones, IoT sensors and 5G everywhere? Can we truly exploit all of the data and technologies we are developing today?
This conference will fast forward to envision what the future might hold for organizations and individuals, across different industries and technologies. We will then explore what it means to the workforce and the *Architects of Tomorrow*, as organizations look to these professionals to turn their visions into reality.
Join us to explore how to deliver tomorrow’s world.
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Aug 27, 2021
Architecture in Business and Technology
In this episode I got to get into some really exciting discussions with two leaders in architecture transformation and leadership. This was an off the cuff discussion of how to create a true business impacting architecture practice, how to become a transformational chief architect and how to help organizations manage change in a dynamic business environment. We discuss the qualities of bringing architects together, shared interactions between business and solution architects and how to grow a practice that delivers on the promise of digital. Their will be lots more from these two amazing speakers and women in architecture.
Whynde Kuehn is the Founder and Managing Director of S2E Transformation, helping organizations bridge the gap between strategy and execution. Whynde has extensive experience in enterprise transformation and planning and is a passionate advocate for using business architecture to enable effective strategy execution and digital transformation.
Eva Kammerfors is an ex…
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Aug 19, 2021
Grady Booch on Architecture
I have been fortunate enough to know Grady Booch for almost 20 years and I have always remained a fan. Without his advice Im not sure how far Iasa would have come. This interview was as great a conversation as always. In it we cover a lot of territory. We start out with understanding architecture, software and engineering. And in a very candid way get to know what it is like to be an industry leader at the top of his game in 'A day in the life of Grady', we dicuss AI and ethics, and what Grady calls embodied AI which is a term I think will catch on as we edge nearer and nearer to general AI. We also discuss engineering techniques, and Grady's coming book on Software Architecture. Pattern languages applied to all sorts of scenarios. This is a MUST listen episode for anyone wanting to be a modern architect.
Grady Booch is an American software engineer, best known for developing the Unified Modeling Language with Ivar Jacobson and James Rumbaugh. He is recognized internationally for his…
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Aug 19, 2021
Grady Booch on Architecture Part 2
I have been fortunate enough to know Grady Booch for almost 20 years and I have always remained a fan. Without his advice Im not sure how far Iasa would have come. This interview was as great a conversation as always. In it we cover a lot of territory. We start out with understanding architecture, software and engineering. And in a very candid way get to know what it is like to be an industry leader at the top of his game in 'A day in the life of Grady', we dicuss AI and ethics, and what Grady calls embodied AI which is a term I think will catch on as we edge nearer and nearer to general AI. We also discuss engineering techniques, and Grady's coming book on Software Architecture. Pattern languages applied to all sorts of scenarios. This is a MUST listen episode for anyone wanting to be a modern architect.
Grady Booch is an American software engineer, best known for developing the Unified Modeling Language with Ivar Jacobson and James Rumbaugh. He is recognized internationally for his…
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Aug 18, 2021
Accelerate Agile Development with Just In Time Architecture
In this episode Gabriel Gomane covers agile scaling with just in time architecture. He covers large corporate environments and the difficulties in making agile and architecture work together.
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Aug 16, 2021
Interview with Ted Neward - Part 1
In this episode I caught up with Ted Neward, an old friend and the first speaker at an Iasa conference many many years ago! We discuss agility and architecture as well as dig into what makes effective engineering teams, devops and much more.
Ted Neward is sometimes referred to as "The Dude of Software", owing to both his remarkable (some say frightening) resemblance to the Jeff Bridges character from "The Big Lebowski", and his ordination as a Dudeist Minister of the Church of the Latter-Day Dude, but he's also been called the "Dr. Gregory House of Software", owing to his tendency to pull no punches when talking about software and how to deliver it successfully. He's comfortable answering to either title, as well as a few others. He's familiar with more programming languages than most people knew existed, and hasn't found one yet that he couldn't turn into a 'mission-critical' application when asked. He is currently the director of technology at Quicken Loans.
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Aug 16, 2021
Interview with Ted Neward - Part 2
In this episode I caught up with Ted Neward, an old friend and the first speaker at an Iasa conference many many years ago! We discuss agility and architecture as well as dig into what makes effective engineering teams, devops and much more.
Ted Neward is sometimes referred to as "The Dude of Software", owing to both his remarkable (some say frightening) resemblance to the Jeff Bridges character from "The Big Lebowski", and his ordination as a Dudeist Minister of the Church of the Latter-Day Dude, but he's also been called the "Dr. Gregory House of Software", owing to his tendency to pull no punches when talking about software and how to deliver it successfully. He's comfortable answering to either title, as well as a few others. He's familiar with more programming languages than most people knew existed, and hasn't found one yet that he couldn't turn into a 'mission-critical' application when asked. He is currently the director of technology at Quicken Loans.
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Aug 10, 2021
Interview with Grant Ecker - Large Architecture Practices
Grant Ecker is chief architect at WBA (Walgreens Boots Alliance). With a practice of nearly 200 architects Grant faces challenges everyday on keeping the work going and keeping the team providing value. In this interview we get to dig into techniques in scaling agility, evaluating new technologies, providing mentoring, connecting emotional intelligence with delivery and true customer driven excellence. It was a real honor and privilege to have this discussion. In addition to all of that Grant describes his vision for the Chief Architect Forum, a group of architects leading large teams and delivering on emergent design, strategic execution and value creation across the board. You definitely don't want to miss this conversation.
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Aug 6, 2021
EA Past and Future With Michael Sioufas and Gordon Cooper
The combined pressures of Digital Transformation, Agility @ Scale and advances in AI, DevOps, IoT are creating a rapid rate of change for customers and employees. This conversation with Michael Sioufas from McKinsey and Gordon Cooper from MEGA, who will join Paul Preiss, Iasa’s Founder, will evaluate the impact of these changes to enterprise, business, and solution architecture now and in the future. Architects are finding themselves in increasing demand and Iasa and MEGA are working together to help them understand the evolving nature of their roles as they move forward.
The panel will take a look in detail at the following topics you won't want to miss:
• What does modern EA look like and how has it changed over the last decade?
• What methods and techniques are in play to scale agile architecture at the enterprise level?
• How does a customer/employee centric culture impact enterprise architecture?
• How are today’s EAs working with solution, business, infrastructure, a…
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Aug 4, 2021
Mark Richards and Neal Ford on Software Architecture
I had the distinct honor of talking with two of the worlds thought leaders in Software Architecture about their book - Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach. We also get a sneak peek at their next book, Software Architecture - The Hard Parts. It was an amazing interview and these two have some of the best ideas in patterns, problem shaping and solution design in the market today.
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Jul 25, 2021
Paul Preiss interviews Gunnar Menzel
Paul Preiss, CEO & Founder of IASA Global interviews Gunnar, Chief Technology and Innovation Officer for Capgemini Europe.
Paul Preiss will do two short interviews with Gunnar on:
- The evolving role of Solution Architect in the post-Covid era.
- Agile Enterprise Architecture; Myth or reality?
Paul and Gunnar will discuss the paradigm shift in business expectations and models due to Covid-19 and how the role of a Solution Architect needs to change in the post-Covid-19 era.
They will also discuss how everything is accelerating. Gone are the days where we spend weeks on developing EA artifacts. Today, Architecture has to contribute towards the solution lifecycle in an agile and speedy way, creating and delivering “just enough architecture”. But what do we mean by “just enough”?
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Mar 12, 2021
Mark Richards On Software Architecture
I had the pleasure of sitting down to speak with Mark Richards, author, trainer, coder and software solution architect. We discuss everything from agile architecture methods, modern software architecture patterns to business value and technical debt.
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