Sunday, March 29, 2015

The roles of the IT Architect

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If you read across the different references, magazines, forums, groups, etc. (online or otherwise) that discuss Information Technology Arch...
Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Computer science taught as an art

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I've been involved with learning, teaching and creating for all my life. During my formative years (in-utero to shortly after high-sch...
Tuesday, March 03, 2015

Cub Scout Badges as Digital Badges

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I'm looking at implementing Digital Badges for Scouting Canada badges. The interesting part is many of the features for distributing an...
Monday, March 02, 2015

Key organizational items to grow Enterprise Architecture

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I am increasingly thinking about what needs to be in place for an organization to be successful with Enterprise Architecture (EA). What I am...
Thursday, February 26, 2015

An Enterprise Architecture Elevator Pitch

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"The Enterprise Architects business value is in building success through good design. This will vary from place-to-place (project-to-...
Thursday, February 19, 2015

How does the network see your personal brand?

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Branding is important. It provides an external (or public) theme for endeavours; business endeavours, professional endeavours, organizationa...
Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Major Chords 4 Bass with Tabs

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As the family band grows and improves I put together this one-pager for some of the major chords on bass guitar . I helps the boys as they p...
Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Business value and reducing IT duplication

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Duplication of features is where I consider one of the easiest areas of IT architecture (enterprise or otherwise) to reduce cost and incre...
Saturday, February 14, 2015

Identifying the business value

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Architecture or Enterprise Architecture can have a positive impact upon a business from many directions. The maturity available from archit...
Friday, February 13, 2015

First Six Knots

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I'm putting together a couple of evenings of activities for the cub scout group I am a leader. The focus will be on the tying and use of...
Thursday, January 15, 2015

Management Consulting Spokes

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I'm excited about building upon an existing Community of Practice with focus on Management Consulting. I like that the community has bee...
Tuesday, May 06, 2014

Big Data; Similarities and Differences

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Compare and contrast; VLDB and Big Data. I've been a data guy for over 25 years. My undergrad degree is in Technology with specialty...
Saturday, May 03, 2014

The St. John's NL 40 million population

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I was inspired by a conversation I had earlier this week. Actually I was inspired by many conversations this week. A really great week all a...

Managed Endorsements

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I'm approaching my 10th anniversary on LinkedIn and I have found it a magnificent record of my professional life. The fact that it is pu...
Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Virtual Community of Practice User Stories

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I continue to explore the conundrum of " How do you build a Community of Practice in a closed environment where you can't reach out...
Monday, April 14, 2014

Virtual Community of Practice Conundrum

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-- T L D R ---------------- What do you need to consider when building a Community of Practice (CoP) that spans organizational boundaries ...
Thursday, January 02, 2014

Proposed ACAITA Event Schedule

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Thursday January 16th Lunchtime Location: 1:00 - 2:30 pm Erin's Pub Agenda:  - Roles of the IT Architect - Approaches to build...
Monday, December 09, 2013

Inaugural ACAITA Google Hangout

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The community building continues. Next week we have the inaugural ACAITA Google Hangout. This will be the first of many Google Hangouts wi...
Thursday, December 05, 2013

ACAITA Next Steps

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Inaugural meeting of the ACAITA started with humble beginnings. I found myself in the Georgetown Pub all alone... Seriously, for a couple ...
Tuesday, December 03, 2013

Inaugural ACAITA meeting

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On Thursday December 5th we have the inaugural meeting for the Atlantic Canada Association of IT Architects (ACAITA). We really are at the ...