Friday, May 12, 2017

ACAITA Inaugural Meeting St. John's

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Three architecturally minded technical professionals got together at the Ship Public House to share a couple of beers, tell a few technica...
Sunday, April 02, 2017

A focused economic sector

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Recently I have been working toward growing the Atlantic Canada Association of Information Technology Architects (ACAITA). The idea of crea...
Wednesday, March 22, 2017

ACAITA Partnership Recommendation

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There are a number of groups, professional associations, organizations involved with developing and forwarding the practice of IT architectu...
Sunday, March 12, 2017

ACAITA Inaugural meeting Halifax

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We had an outstanding inaugural meeting of the Atlantic Canada Association of Information Technology Architects (ACAITA). Seven Halifax memb...
Sunday, March 05, 2017

A bold vision for Atlantic Canada Association of IT Architects

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I had a bit of an epiphany when thinking about the purpose of the Atlantic Canada Association of IT Architects. I was thinking about to thin...
Friday, February 24, 2017

Atlantic Canada IT Architects Inaugural Meeting

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Let's get this started! My initial call to start an Atlantic Canada Association of IT Architects (ACAITA) has exceeded my expectations. ...
Sunday, February 19, 2017

one hundred and fourty seven

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I offered up the idea of an Atlantic Canada Association of IT Architects five days ago and so far the idea has over 140 views and 20 people ...
Monday, February 13, 2017

Getting started with the ACAITA

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This group is for people interested in the intersection of business and information technology. And how solution and enterprise architecture...
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...