Information Technology Antipatterns

Information Technology Antipatterns

Sorry Grumpy Cat IT Governance, Vision, and Principles – Applied for Technology Selection
The IT Monopoly The Collapse of Totalitarian Communist Regimes and IT Service Catalogs
IT Blow-back Unintended Consequences of Information Technologies
Next Billion-Dollar IT Wunderkind How to Find the Next Winning Information Technology?
The 8 Failure Modes of Enterprise Architecture How EA Programs Fail and What Can We Do About It?
IT Decision Making IT Decision Making Worst and Best Practices
Beyond Faster and Cheaper Unlock the Value of Information
Micro Anti-Patterns These don’t Need a Whole Article
Information Technology Reach Theory A Fundamental Force Driving Information Technology
Reading This Will Cost You 0.4 Micromort IT Risk Management Worst Practices
IT Misgovernance What can go wrong with IT Governance?
Zen of Septic Tank Repair Balancing the Run/Grow/Transform IT investments
Cylinders of Excellence IT Silos, the problems they create and potential remedies
No-Principle Principle Why is it better to run an IT shop based on Principles
Path to Nowhere Structured Requirements Development is crucial for successful IT projects
Getting “Netflixed” What happens when a new IT Operating Model is needed
Non-Linear IT Why non-linear thinking – abstraction and decomposition – is vital for IT
Tree Huggers’ Enterprise Architecture An Enterprise Architecture framework that fits on a single A4 page
Organic IT Why the organically grown IT architecture may not be the best
Relativistic Elevator Speech How to convince a CEO about an IT initiative in 110 seconds
Peter-state Detector Anybody wants to move you to Peter-state? What can you do about it?
Thanks Pooh How can you identify useless meta and hypo-work
Free Kick What Enterprise Architecture can do for the Enterprise
Princess Beatrice’s Toilet Seat Hat Some IT investments do not make any sense to your IT partners
The Ugly Baby Is your IT the “ugly baby” of the Enterprise? What can you do about it?
Matrjoska Effect How to deal with the ever growing IT complexity
The Price of New Car Smell OPEX versus CAPEX
Ox Carts and Dog Sleds Using Information Technologies to solve problems the right way
A Tale of Infinite Number of Monkeys How to balance institutional and individual productivity
Skeletons in the IT Closet What can you do with the persistent organizational memory
Baggy Pants The tsunami that is about to hit IT: the baggy pants
The Mechanical Turk What to do with the hidden and costly manual process
The Great Horse Manure Crisis How to deal with technological disruption
The Cuban Car Organizational attachment to ancient information technologies
Burj Khalifa What happens when an IT solution is built without solid foundation
Introduction Why collect antipatterns?

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