Following the architectural change of the IT system, we easily discover some similarities to the second law of thermodynamics. Following Wikipedia: “Entropy is central to the second law of thermodynamics, “which states that the entropy of an isolated system left to spontaneous evolution cannot decrease with time.” The same can be applied to IT systems. The…
Mission Impossible – continued
Before vacation, I promised myself to describe the possible ways to deal with the current risks of IT projects, which I mentioned in the previous post. In terms of the risk of insufficient buyer and provider project maturity (ability to deliver and ability to absorb) the natural solution seems to have mutual rating of both…
Mission Impossible called sometimes “IT project management”
The insufficient maturity of software engineering is materialized in unsuccessful IT projects. Depending upon the source (Gartner, Standish, other), currently only 20-30 % of IT projects end within the required time, scope, and funding. The rest is either: delayed, re-financed, or reworked. There is a lot of analysis on the web, describing in detail all…
Organic applications
A better title would be “Life-inspired applications”. But this term has already been used, so I used this one, although it may wrongly suggest a change in hardware technology. Thinking about the future of IT we cannot forget the service continuity. In the current IT systems – especially the big ones – there is always…
How long will IT remain an automation toolset?
IT-supported “automation” is a common buzzword, especially combined with AI. But by going deeper and analyzing the business process portfolio in the organization we may distinguish 3 automation directions. The first – I will name it the ‘X’ direction – is the attempt to increase the range of automation, to expand the automated part of…
IT does matter, because business processes do
It is not my intention to reopen the discussion about the controversial article from Nicolas G. Carr. I can understand the intention of the Author, and the reasons for his opponents to contest. There is however a difference between other business-supporting utilities (like electric power) and IT in terms of business process support. Or to…
Carbon footprint
IT development faces from its beginning with all IT-related challenges: Power consumption has never been a primary objective, as the power was assumed to be present, and nobody optimized the code, because of the power (except autonomously supplied systems – i.e. Voyager 1 or simply mobile devices 😊). This is changing in big data centers,…
Santa Maria del Fiore
The cathedral dome of Santa Maria del Fiore (raised 1446–1461) is one of the most spectacular constructions in Florence. It was architected by Filippo Brunelleschi, who also led the entire project until his death. 1446 there were no guidelines or best practices for a construction Brunelleschi proposed. Also, the mathematical toolset and material science were…
The (missing) art of IT system architecture
Analyzing the “architecture” definitions in construction engineering we notice: The Oxford English Dictionarydescribes architecture as: “art or practice of designing and constructingbuildings” The Collins Dictionary describes architecture as: “the art of planning,designing, and constructing buildings” The Merriam-Webster Dictionary describes architecture as “the art orscience of building. specifically: the art or practice of designing andbuilding structures and especially habitable…
The future of IT
People should not try to predict the future. Especially the future of IT. It causes only problems. At first, we extrapolate linearly and continuously, assuming the the current conditions to be present in future – just with other values. These values should “obey” the historical statistics (the business of all investment funds is based upon)….