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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 for the front-end applications, another segment for back-end systems, and so on. Your enterprise network… Continue reading
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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 (a.k.a. paint-points) your customers have with your company or brand. Here’s an example of what… Continue reading
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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. Continue reading
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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 wouldn’t think of immediately. This diagram can be used to communicate to business people that… Continue reading
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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 reason for this weakness or strength. And that’s where it differs from a Spider chart. … Continue reading
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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 improved capability map that allows you to switch between an Azure and an AWS view… Continue reading
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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. Continue reading
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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. Continue reading
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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 becomes too complex you trim it, if it is too simple you grow it another… Continue reading
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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 so on and so on Though sometimes it can be frustrating to have to keep… Continue reading
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As an experienced enterprise architect with a deep-rooted passion for cloud, AI, and architectural design, I’ve guided numerous companies through the management of their existing application landscapes and facilitated their transition to a future state.