Option Comparison Heat map
Another interesting diagram or table in this case is the Option Comparison Heat Map. One swift glance is all it takes for its readers to see where the weaknesses and the strength of every option lies. As well as the…
Interactive Azure vs AWS capablity & service map
Last week we explained the advantages of Capability Maps, by demonstrating how such a capability map could help organize Azure’s capabilities in such a way that it becomes easier to find your way. In this installment, we look at an…
Capability Map: Azure Fundamental Services
The capability map helps an architect to organize the technical or business capabilities of an organization into logical groupings and it gives the reader an instant overview of how these capabilities are fulfilled. We made an interactive capability map organizing fundamental services offered by the Azure Cloud.
Affinity Diagrams
The affinity diagram is another simple to I use tool to organize topics into logical categories. It is very useful and easy to do during a brainstorm session in front of a whiteboard and typically is very efficient. You start…
Fishbone Diagrams
Another great way to organize your ideas around problems in a structured way is the Ishikawa diagram, aka the Fishbone diagram because of its shape.
Decision Trees
We already covered the MECE list, the 5 Whys, and the PESTEL analysis. Another great tool for getting to decisions in an organized way are the …uh… Decision Trees. Growing a Decision Tree is an iterative process. If the tree…
5 whys to get to the root cau
Another interesting technique is the 5 why’s. Many know this techniques from their children. Child: why does so and so happen? You: oh because of this and that… Child: Yes, but why then this? You again: well, because … and…
PESTEL analysis
PEST (and the more complete PESTEL) analysis is an interesting way of looking at all things exerting influence on an organization. OK, it’s just an acronym, still it helps looking at the bigger picture. More than just the technology, or…
Artificial Intelligence isn’t Software 2.0 (yet)
I recently read a medium article entitled Software 2.0. In this article the author argues that Neural Networks (or AI in general?) are much better than the Software 1.0 stack we’re used to work with (C, C++, Java and so…
MECE lists
Mutually Exclusive and Collectively Exhaustive lists are a very profound way to look at the lists way make both consciously and unknowingly. The idea is that whenever you create a list, you make sure that: The items in the list…