Set up your Azure cloud with Landing Zones
A while back, someone pointed me to the Azure Landing Zones concept as an excellent way to organize an Enterprise Cloud environment in Azure. Classic enterprise networks In a classic enterprise network, you will find network segments like a DMZ…
Customer Journey Diagrams
Customer Journey diagrams have been around for a while now. They are another great tool to help you think about the interactions between you and your customers. You can use them to analyze or convey the positive and negative interactions…
Determine your business integration strategy
In order to apply a sound IT (Integration) Strategy in a multi-entity environment, it is important to understand the business integration strategy.
Uber’s Domain-Oriented Microservice Architecture
In the blog post “Microservices and SOA” written four years ago, I wrote that I thought Microservices Architectures were Service-Oriented Architectures done right. Of course, when designing Microservices, no-one prevents you from making a lot of exquisite short-term decisions that,…
The RACI Matrix
The Responsible-Accountable-Consulted-Informed (RACI) matrix is another useful and widely used communication means. A good one clearly and concisely shows which person or organization has a stake (and which one) in specific tasks. This helps to clarify who is supposed to…
Iceberg Diagram
A very visual diagram, one that I really like because it is very visual, is the Iceberg Diagram. It is used to explain that besides the visible items, one should also expect a lot of “hidden” ones. Things that you…
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.
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.