Category Archives: IT

If in doubt leave it out – 10 Golden Rules of Enterprise Architecture

Posted on July 6, 2015 by kvoges

10 Golden Rules of Enterprise Architecture Modeling – If in doubt, leave it out Continue reading →

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Startups are great – less mean – less gaming

Posted on December 6, 2014 by kvoges

Great insights from Paul Graham: “Startups don’t win by attacking. They win by transcending” from Mean People Fail “Starting a startup is where gaming the system stops working” from Before the Startup As always the articles from Paul Graham are worth … Continue reading →

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BankOfAmerica – Stacktrace

Posted on November 14, 2014 by kvoges

This is a nice stacktrace from the online banking at BoA, revealing the use of SAML2, http://openam.forgerock.org/ and JBoss Web/2.1.11.GA. Most puzzling part: Why a big bank cannot configure the servers to display a proper ErrorPage instead of a stacktrace. HTTP Status … Continue reading →

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How to build your corporate EA Function inspired by Google’s Design function

Posted on November 18, 2013 by kvoges

How Google built their central design function (known as UXA – User Experience Alliance) can be a lesson and guidance on how to built a central EnterpriseArchitects function. This dawned on my reading the great Fast Company article about how design finally made … Continue reading →

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Old MacBook Pro now Rocket fast with hardwrk SSD Kit

Posted on November 7, 2013 by kvoges

Just a week ago I installed into our old MacBook Pro (2010) an SSD instead of the DVD Drive and since then it is rocket fast – using Aperture with thousand of photos is now starting in seconds, vs. 10 … Continue reading →

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My Startup Adventure History 2013

Posted on September 24, 2013 by kvoges

As we are currently validating a lot of our learning through Lean Startup Challenge, I want to capture some of my learnings, try-outs of pre-LSC time. In April I applied at Masschallenge with the following idea/pitch in short: A better … Continue reading →

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LeanStartupChallenge – Day 1

Posted on September 24, 2013 by kvoges

Lean Startup Challenge kicked off last Friday. After the first evening event with the intro pitching by each participating team (see My first 60 sec. pitch) thanks to sponsorship by Boston Globe, we had a workshop weekend. Saturday at Alphamark coworking. … Continue reading →

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My first 60 seconds pitch

Posted on September 23, 2013 by kvoges

This was my first pitch ever at the kickoff event of Lean Startup Challenge Boston: We are SMART360°Biz. We help organizations to know how they REALLY work. By combining organizational structures (e.g. value chain, Process Map, IT Structures, …) with … Continue reading →

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What your EA Stakeholders do not care about

Posted on September 19, 2013 by kvoges

This is a list of things your EA Stakeholders do not care about. I always have to retell myself as well as tell clients: Business doesn’t care how clean your IT architecture is. Your stakeholders don’t care how long you … Continue reading →

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Lean Startup Challenge – Accepted

Posted on September 17, 2013 by kvoges

My application to Lean Startup Challenge got accepted! So the next six weeks will be super busy, but I am glad that my concept of enterprise social graph is getting traction and I am looking forward to test it the lean … Continue reading →

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