Build vs Buy
Differentiation versus table stakes, priced over five years.
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Business Architecture
General material on the business side of architecture.
Business Capabilities
What a business does, stated stably and independent of implementation.
No content yetCapability Mapping
Overlaying systems onto capabilities to expose duplication and gaps.
No content yetBusiness Processes
How work actually flows, including the handoffs nobody documented.
No content yetValue Streams
End-to-end delivery of an outcome, and where the waiting happens.
No content yetDomain Boundaries
Where the language of the business changes, and services should too.
No content yetStakeholder Analysis
Who is affected, what they need, and who can block you late.
No content yetProduct Thinking
Treating platforms and services as products with users and a lifecycle.
No content yetBusiness KPIs
The numbers a design is ultimately judged against.
No content yetRegulatory Constraints
Non-negotiable requirements that remove design options entirely.
No content yetOrganisational Constraints
Team structure, skills and budget cycles as architectural inputs.
No content yetTime to Market
The constraint that dominates most products, and how to trade against it.
No content yetBusiness Cases
Expressing an architecture proposal in the currency that gets funded.
No content yetOperating Models
How delivery, platform and governance functions fit together.
No content yetTeam Topologies
Stream-aligned, platform, enabling and complicated-subsystem teams.
No content yetPlatform as a Product
Adoption earned rather than mandated, with an owner and a roadmap.
No content yetOutcome Measurement
Knowing whether the thing you built achieved what it promised.
No content yetPortfolio Prioritisation
Choosing between investments with incomparable benefits.
No content yetBusiness Continuity
What the business does while the system is unavailable.
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