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The Argument Is Not About the Work

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Three people leave the same strategy review. One believes the plan is feasible. One thinks it needs major revision. One is certain it will be ignored.None of them is looking at different evidence. They are holding different attitudes toward the same object.Most friction in strategy, design, and architecture work follows this pattern. A developer sa...

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"We Cannot Do This" Means Three Different Things

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A developer says "we cannot do this."A director says "this is required."An architect says "this is permitted."Each statement sounds like a fact about the work. Each is actually a statement about the kind of constraint in play. And each kind requires an entirely different response.When a developer says "we cannot do this" and means it is technically...

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EA Evaluates Itself

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What a systematic literature review reveals about how EA is assessed — and what is missing A peer-reviewed paper co-authored with Martin Henkel and Erik Perjons of Stockholm University — "Improving EA Evaluations Through the Work-Oriented Approach" — has been published in Springer Nature's Communications in Computer and Informatio...

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