Index

PEFF

Ontologies

MAGIC and MAGMA Derivation

Structure
Strategy
Execution
Fundamental Types
Levels

POET

Head

Adoption

Adoption
Step 4
Actions
Step 5
Actions
Step 6
Actions

Methods

Methods

Phases

Overview
Architectures
Resource Utilisation
Strategising
Roadmapping
Solutioning
A Pragmatic Approach
Project Execution
Pattern
Models

Disciplines

Overview
Capability Model
Phase
Artefacts
Orchestration
Requirements Management
Discovery
Analysis and Design
Modelling
Decision Making
Culture
Making Them
Changing Them
The Red Button
Jumping to Conclusions
Governance and Lobbying Disciplines

Governance and Lobbying

Artefact Mapping
Transformation Synchronisation
Technical Debt
Technical Debt vs Transformation Debt

Transformation Debt

Overview
Investment Profiles
Investment Results

Artefacts

Artefacts

Overview

Overview
Architectures

Ontology

Basics
Mapping to Phases
Volume Volatility and Focus
Impact and Costs
Population
Two Whys
Recursive Model Abstractions
Transitions

Detail

Structural and Transformational Zachman
Models

Meta models

Mapping

POLDAT
BMM
EBMM
Hybrid

Guidance

Guidance
Context is King
Types

Items

Items

The Architecture Paradigm

What is Architecture

Purpose

Its Not What You Think
Structural Complexity
Transformational Volatility
Transformational Complexity
Contextual Volatility and Complexity

Justification

Applicability
Cost and Ability
Investment
Procrastination
Abstraction and Elaboration
Relationships
The Value is in the Lines not the Boxes
Patterns
Models Meta Models and Semantics

Architecture and Engineering

Why and How
Yin and Yang
Architect Horizontally Engineer Vertically
Overlap
Inter Phase

Frameworks

Number and Growth
How POET Helps

Tools

Number and Growth
How POET Helps
Coverage
Integration

Culture

Culture

Organisation Structure

Management
Workers

Culture Trumps Everything

For Better or Worse
The Power of Culture
Immense Problems
Immense Opportunities

Slaves to Psychology

What Do You Think
Is All Value Easy to See
I Was Only Doing What I was Told
Are You Better Than a 5 Year Old
Who Decides
Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely
Style over Substance
The Halo Horn Effect
Cognitive Dissonance
The Dunning Kruger Effect
The Peter Principle
The Matthew Effect
Prices Law
The Best Managers Are Sociopaths
Personality Traits
The Prisons of Two Ideas
Logical Fallacies

Architects and Engineers

Fundamentals
Comparison
Architects and Engineers Who Are You

The Architect

Secrets
An Impossible Job
What Does An Architect Do
Architect or Charlatan
The Pragmatic Architect Creed
Language

PEAF

Artefacts

Ontology

Meta models

PF2

Appendix

Appendix
Background
The Author
Keypoints
Sources and Resources
Tail
       
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All things have a level of Structural Complexity

Structural Complexity is not the same as size or quantity but can be related. Structural Complexity is more a function of the number of different things and the number of relationships between them.

For example, a typical car park might contain 500 parts (cars) but the car park has low complexity because a) they are all cars - things of the same type and b) the only relationships that exist between them are from each car to its immediate neighbour or from each car to a map.

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Structural Complexity is a function of the number of things something is composed of, and the number of relationships between them.

Questions to ponder...

Are you aware of your Enterprise’s Structural Complexity?

How would you define it?

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