Explore the delirious rantings of Frederick Vanbrabant. A blog focused on the intersection of Enterprise Architecture, product, and business strategy.

Explore the delirious rantings of Frederick Vanbrabant. A blog focused on the intersection of Enterprise Architecture, product, and business strategy.

I wanted a blue badge on LinkedIn. To get it, I gave a US company my passport, my face, and my biometric data. Then I read the fine print.

Explore the delirious rantings of Frederick Vanbrabant. A blog focused on the intersection of Enterprise Architecture, product, and business strategy.

Frederick's delirious rants

Frederick's delirious rants

When someone comes to you with a question to do something, instead of blindly doing the ask, take a step back and try to understand what they actually want to achieve. Often this task might actually n...

One of the first things you want to know when you start you cost reduction, is actually knowing what your things costs. This is weirdly something not a lot of companies actually know. Today we will ta...

It's the start of a new fiscal year and that's always a time to look forward and define strategy: What are we gonna work on these next months. I've always handled the same structure in defining my str...

So we should probably start with this right? Business capabilities (further in this article referred to as capabilities) are the backbone of enterprise architecture. They are also, sadly, one of the m...

the main role software has in an organization is to facilitate processes. My friend argued that this is a strict and maybe overly theoretical view of software in the workplace. He might be right, but ...

In this post, I will argue that you can't work towards a goal without **information**. After all, all of the connections in people, processes and technologies have one thing in common: there is inform...

One of the most confusing things about architecture is the vagueness of the naming that surrounds it. Not only for non architects that often don't really know in detail what all the different discipli...

Well the real title was going to be 'business strategy is like a lizard, it leaves behind it's tail while it grows a new one' but that was just too long.

Is Archimate an effective enterprise architecture tool, or just an ivory tower language? Inspired by a podcast with Svyatoslav Kotusev, I dive into its usability, challenges, and why I still use it.

Most big organizations I've worked with are more akin to an ecosystem of multiple smaller companies. These smaller companies all share the same umbrella of the bigger total but internally compete for ...

A big part of enterprise architecture is keeping your architecture model up to date. Without this model, it's impossible to do your real job in advising projects, strategy and general company awarenes...

GROUND CONTROL: LIVE ISS DATA FEED

The last weeks I've been focusing a lot on the data and information models in architecture. Organizations have so much data flowing around that it's hard to effectively map it all out. That's a shame ...

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Have you ever made bread before in your life? Like from start to finish? It's not a difficult thing to do. You start off with flour, yeast, salt, and water. Combine them, let that dough sit for a whil...

Some quick thoughts on moving from Twitter/X to BlueSky and how I'll try to use social media after being burned once by Twitter.